i moved to ireland but my daughter has no friends?

Q. Hi There, i moved to Monaghan in Ireland at the beginning of the year with my daughter and partner. My partner originally from here and my daughter and i are from Scotland. She is in Class 3 at school and is gettin on great there. She has many friends to play with at school, however after school is a different matter!!!! It is beautiful weather here just now and since she got in from school i have been trying to get her to go out to play, but she burst out crying saying she had no-one to play with. I told her to call on 2 friends that live at top of our street but she wouldnt go, i offered to go with her but still she refused, she finally calmed down after dinner and went to the park across the road from our house and was playing with a small child about 2 years old. I feel for her so much, she is really shy and just doesnt have the confidence to approach children to make friends. she is having a party next week for her birthday, and i have no idea who is coming as none of the parents have contacted me to inform me, not that long ago i wrote a few notes for my daughter to give to her friends, to give to their parents, just saying my daughter was new to the area and as my daughter and their daughter were friends at school could we arrange for them to play after school one day, not one of the parents contacted me. i know my daughter handed the notes to her friends as one of the parents passed by me the other day and apologised for not calling, but she had been really busy, even so i have still not heard from her. i was going to send her to irish dancing but she doesnt want to go as she doesnt know anybody, i told her thats how she will make friends but she wont budge. we didnt have this problem in scotland as she grew up in a small village and all the kids were really good friends. Im just worried that after 6 months she still has no-one. With parents not contacting me after ive written to them, im not sure what else i can do, but im worried about my daughter especially as the summer holidays start next week!!!! Any ideas??

Answer
That is so sad. And I find it incredibly rude of all the parents to have not responded to your party invitation.

Can you get your daughter involved in activities over the summer? Swimming lessons, sports activities, visit different playgrounds in the area.

I have a 9 year old daughter myself and I can only imagine the pain that you're feeling for her.

No one will come to my brothers party?

J

So its my brother 13th birthday next week and we and my older brothers arranged to take him and his school mates paint balling then coming back for a party. We sent out 30 invitations like 3 weeks ago and got two replies from being saying they can't come and the rest haven't said anything, and then the other day at school someone said 2 Gus that no one wanted to go to his party because he's a freak and he go really upset.

He has special needs apparently but it's weird kind and no one can really diagnose what exactly it is. He is basically like a little kid sometimes and can get really upset and throw tantrums. He's hyperactive and has a really short attention span and when we are out in public he just says things to people not realizing that he'll upset them, like your really fat or something, he says it like it's an observation. He is also really impulsive and just randomly takes things like the time he stole a penguin from the zoo (don't ask how he managed that one).

The kids at school started saying stuff about him a while back but my older brother wen to talk to them about it and they stopped so we figured he was fitting in all right. He's gonna get really upset if its just my brothers and there friends and no one from his school turn up but i don't know weather to just confirm the bookings with the numbers we got or try to talk some people from his school and convince them to go or something cos its really annoying that they basically wont go because they think he's weird and he's actually really nice and they just avoid him because of it , any advice on what i should do would be really appreciated?

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It's a shame that no one will go to your brother's birthday party. Unfortunately, kids of that age don't understand your brother has special needs and will just dismiss him as 'weird' or strange. I would suggest organising something between yourselves for him for his birthday and buy him a really nice present, maybe something he has wanted for ages. Is there any place/club near your area that cater for kids with special needs? In Ireland, we have schools for them and they get to mix with people like themselves and make friends. Your brother would feel happier with kids with similar needs and wouldn't have to put up with immature brats making fun of him. I hope your brother enjoys his birthday, whatever happens.

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