I've been struggling with forming relationships with other parents with kids around my son's age. He gets social interaction at preschool but since I'm a teacher, he loses that over the summer. The few males I've known with kids weren't really involved as parents and one even made some shitty sarcastic joke when I suggested a play date.I tried to find some Facebook groups in our area but they are all mom groups and most are private. I did get accepted into one but I noticed all of the play date schedules are during the week. I messaged the group admin about a weekend thing last February and she responded, "Sorry that's when our husbands are off work so we try to schedule everything during the week." I thought great, all SAHMs and I'm a wifeless husband who works throughout the week.We tried church but I couldn't stand the sermons and the church we went to regularly was really pushy about getting me involved in small groups and their dating scene. We stopped going but my son was at least getting some friends there.I'm posting because I recently spent some time messaging a coworker who has a 4 year old son and decided to ask her about getting the boys together. I even was pretty honest about how I was struggling to find friends for him to play with and she sent back a really formal answer about how she wasn't comfortable with me "leading into an inappropriate relationship" when she was happily married. I'm sure that will bring some gossip to the start of the new school year. Hurray.I feel like my son is missing out on some valuable experiences with peers. We moved to this new town two years ago after his mother passed. I'm an only child so there are no cousins on my side. His only uncle is outspokenly child free and even said shortly after her funeral that I shouldn't expect him to be involved.Typing this all out makes me realize things are a bit more fucked up than I thought. via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2vqAPLi
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