It might be a case of channelling your son’s confidence (Picture: Metro.co.uk/Getty)
Metro’s agony aunt Em Clarkson is here to solve all your problems.
This week, she’s giving out sound advice on how to make friends at the school gates and unfair expectations when it comes to caring for an elderly parent.
Read on for this week’s reader conundrums and Em’s advice.
I’m really struggling to make mum-friends at my son’s school. He’s just switched primary schools as we’ve moved to a new area. While he’s settled in well, I haven’t so much and am desperate to find some mates but so far I’ve struggled at the school gates. Everyone seems settled into their friendships already.
Oh, this is TOUGH. I don’t really have many mum friends either and it’s felt like big ‘first day of school’ energy trying to make them. As playdates and birthday parties and nativity plays start rolling around, I have no doubt that you’ll start to find your feet within the community, but I think until then it might be a case of channelling your son’s confidence with his new peers and seeing if you can emulate it.
Most people are good people, and so many mums crave the company of others. I am SO sure you aren’t the only one feeling like this (even though it can often feel as if you are), and so as much as it feels like you are being thrown back into the school environment yourself, and the popular mums might be about to raid your lunchbox and pull your hair, I am hopeful that if you were to approach any of the mums at the gate, and strike up a conversation – ‘nice shoes’, ‘bad weather’, ‘aw isn’t your son adorable’, type thing – you’d be met with warmth.
Want to ask Em Clarkson a question?
Em Clarkson is here to solve all your problems.
Well, sort of.
As Metro’s agony aunt the influencer, author and content creator (busy much?) is primed and ready to be a sympathetic ear, an oracle of wisdom or, quite simply, a stand-in for that girl in the nightclub bathroom you share your thoughts and dreams with while waiting in line.
While she stresses she’s no alternative for therapy, Em is keen to talk through any quandary.
With over 300,000 followers on Instagram and a reputation as one of the more honest influencers out there, Em is often asked for advice in her DMs. Now, she wants to do the same in Metro, as our columnist.
No topic is off limits. So if you’ve a question for her agony aunt series, email askem@metro.co.uk.
And while your first attempt might not land you with a BFF, if you open yourself up to enough possibilities, whether that be just at the school gates or maybe at local kids’ classes or meetups, your people will find you.
It’s such a daunting thing; it’s something I really relate to and so I don’t want to undermine how you’re feeling, I just …read more
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