I need some advice on how to handle this. My ten year old son is very outgoing and friendly. He tries to be friends with anyone that will be his friend. At first the other kids take to him and so do the parents. Then we start seeing the parents distance themselves from him and any activity he may have with their kids. We are on our third school, not because of this. Our first one was a Catholic school and they just didn't have the help he needed to keep up in his reading. And the second one we were actually out of the district but it was much closer to our house so we did a transfer but the next year they would not let anyone transfer. So once again he started a new school. But at all three schools the parents would say we will have to get the kids together to play and they only time they got together was if we invited them. He broke his leg in the summer of going into the 2nd grade, which was when he was getting ready to start his second school, he was playing baseball that summer so he didn't get to finish he had a full body cast on so he could even walk. We was in the hospital for 4 days and not one family came up to see him. He had been playing baseball with these same kids since kindergarten. We continued to go to the game and only 2 parents would come up and ask how he was doing, none of his "friends" even asked to come see him. This 3rd school has been the worst. We are not rich by any means and the school he goes to now is in the richest part of our town, I'm talking doctors, lawyers and even the mayors kids go here. He had a tough time adjusting to this school, it was probably christmas the first time he even mentioned anyone in his class. He played fall football and soccer with these kids and we met most of the mother's, which were very nice until I mentioned where we lived. They thought we had just moved onto the "hill" and once I said my street conversation stopped they proceded to talk to each other but I pretty much just sat there by myself. It may sound like I am being paranoid but I'm not. Since then he has been invited to one get together, and 2 birthday parties and the second one he basically invited himself. He asked the mother if he was invited and she told him he was rude for asking, and her son and a boy who was suppose to be his best friend told him the same thing. He just wanted to know because the kids kept talking about the party. I didn't know anything about this until the mother said she had had a invitation for him but her son must of lost it. Every summer our town has a festival and we were there at the this last one and we ran into several of the boys from is school and then we saw the parents and they had all gotten together and made a day of it. My son asked the boys if he could play with them and they told him no. Then today after his soccer practice one of the boys he has considered his best friend since last year and said he wasn't like the rest of the kids, is having some kind of party tomorrow. He heard him ask another boy if he got the invitation and my son asked him what was going on and he said nothing and he said what is the invitation for and the boy just told him "oh just something special." My son was crushed. He cried all the way home. I can't really tell if it is because of me or him or the parents and kids themselves. If it had been just one or two kids and parents I would say them but we are talking many kids and parents. I know my family has never really been the greatest with him either. In fact my mother told a lady that was getting ready to start watching him that she wished her all the luck with him because he was a brat. My 42 year old brother and 36 year old sister insist on "showing him up", they argue with him almost everytime they are around him. To say the least I stay away from my family as much as possible. All I know is this is crushing his self esteem. He wants me to become friends with these parents so that he can invite kids over and vise versa, so I have tried and I don't cliche with them. I am friendly when I see them, but it is really hard sometimes because I don't know what to think about the way they treat my son.
