My DS didn't have a very good Easter

[enginerd]

My DS just spent the day being entirely ignored by his ex best friend. My DS is 12 1/2 and his friend just turned 13. My son wanted to play basketball and jump on the trampoline, play video games etc. His friend spent the day with his cell phone in hand, texting and calling in closed bedrooms, watching TV and napping. He had no interest in doing anything with my DS and just pretty much ignored him. The difference in maturity has created a wide chasm in the friendship.

[savingsabby]

aww that sucks!! poor kid. :(

[fungirl2727]

Wow people really suck! I had a really good friend in hS I went to dinner with and she spent the whole time on phone with boyfirend! I found her to be rude and never went to dinner with her again.

[cybilx10]

Yep, I have been slowing watching it happen with my son and his friends in the neighborhood. They are all the same age, just a few months difference but the maturity levels are so much different. I feel bad, but I know eventually it will all work itself out.

[lovelace]

I am sorry to hear about your DS I watch my ds and his friend over the years and watch how how they out grew each other but after a while they caught up or someone else will come in his life.

[clippyclippy]

I am sorry to hear about your DS I watch my ds and his friend over the years and watch how how they out grew each other but after a while they caught up or someone else will come in his life.

That is very hard to see happening to your son. I can totally relate. When my ds was around 11 or 12 his very best friend started looking at girls and being "cool". He was no longer interested in playing and being goofy like they had always done. He told his mom that my son was a "nerd" (not...)
They drifted far apart and now they have absolutely nothing in common.
I'm glad my son stayed who he is and didn't just conform to his bf's type.
Sad thing is, ds no longer has a very bf. He has friends, but no one who is his own buddy, who he can count on to just hang out with. It's harder to make friends at his age (now 14).

[momof2inohio]

I think that is the age where kids start branching out more. I know its sad, my DS and some of his old friends kind of outgrew each other. Most of his elementary buddies he no longer hangs out but he has a new group of friends now that he is in middle school.

[CW&M Mom]

I had a friend like that....who would invite you over and then just ignore you. I learned eventually to just no longer be her friend.

I have to say though...it's a bit of bad parenting. My kid would be in hot water...if I found out he had gone to a friends house all day and then ignored the friend.

[enginerd]

That is very hard to see happening to your son. I can totally relate. When my ds was around 11 or 12 his very best friend started looking at girls and being "cool". He was no longer interested in playing and being goofy like they had always done. He told his mom that my son was a "nerd" (not...)
They drifted far apart and now they have absolutely nothing in common.
I'm glad my son stayed who he is and didn't just conform to his bf's type.
Sad thing is, ds no longer has a very bf. He has friends, but no one who is his own buddy, who he can count on to just hang out with. It's harder to make friends at his age (now 14).

This is exactly what has happened - my DS friend has a girlfriend and works very hard at being "cool" - just the right flip to his hairstyle, hat on backwards, only wants to hang with the "cool" crowd. And I do agree it is a bit of bad parenting. We are good friends with his parents and they are wonderful people but very oblivious when it comes to their children's behavior. If the situation would have been reversed, I certainly would have told my son to get off the phone and stay off the phone because he has a guest. My son is not allowed to be on the computer when he has guests for this very reason.

[jonjaktez]

If it were at my house, I'd told that child to hang the phone up or go home. I have rules at my house and all children, mine or not, have to obey them. I have 17 yr old kids turning their cell phones off while they are at my house. I've told them, you're here visiting us, if you want to visit others on your cell phone, then you need to go home.