My High School Child Has No Friends

My high school child is bright. My child says she has no friends. I can't figure out why. How do I help as a dad? such a good question. I'm glad, I love it when dads ask questions. That means you're aware and attuned to your child's needs. Um, more often than not, we find that in situations like this, um, our children have a struggle or they struggle knowing how to best communicate how to, how to read people. So one of the things that I would suggest is I, again, I don't know, uh, your community as a whole, but is your child involved in some, any of the following? And he plays at school, any school athletics, any school-based activity, any clubs if they're engaged in that, because you can be, uh, intellectually smart but isolated away from others. But finding a study group, finding others who have, uh, other students who enjoy whatever your, I mean, if your child's bright, that means that they're probably in courses that are pretty challenging. So I would encourage that to be a starting point. Invite, uh, their friends over or those, those peers over for say, a time to study together or time to, uh, review things together. Because what you find in that situation is that's where friendships are made when you're studying something together and pushing each other intellectually, having intellectual conversations. And so I, I, I, I guess I would start by finding peers with commonality, whether they're in plays, whether it's sports, whether whatever activities is, or intellectual, like, um, what do they call that? Uh, a key club or a, um, a chess club or again, whatever club it is at school, if they can get involved in that, that's generally where friendships start to develop because you start to, Hey, we're going on the choir tour and we're gonna be going to this place. And, and that's really where friendships start to develop is they start interacting with them. One of the things that I should mention here that's really interesting is the more we interact with people solving a problem, the more likely we have things in common, the better off these friendships are. So again, a really big thing that you can do here is find an, an experience where they're trying to solve a problem. And that that can be just a very effective thing to do is, is get an environment where they're learning to solve something with their peers.