My first grader struggles socially. He is the sweetest boy, and WANTS to have friends so badly, and he does have a handful of friends, but it's like he tries to push some of them away with his behaviors. He slapped one of his good friends in the face today and part of it was because he was being overly silly, and thought it was funny, but, NOT OK. He also is very handsy - wrapping his arms around kids, and what not, we're working on it. But he does things that he thinks are funny, but really it's just pushing kids away.... Like, he'll yell something silly at them and laugh, and they're like, Umm, bye.

He is just so socially unaware still. He's so much better with adults, strangely.

He's with the school counselor once a week for a lunch bunch with other kids having similar issues to help. I'm meeting with his new 1st grade teacher next week too.

But wondering if you Bees had any advice or resources so we can try to help him. I'm just not sure what else I can be doing, besides reading books we find and reinforcing what's OK and what's not.... He came home the other night so sad because he said he had no friends, which isn't true necessarily, but i'm sure some of the kids say things to him when he's being nutty.