My 4 year old son is quite shy – he is often afraid of kids at the playground and only engages in parallel play occasionally.
Can anyone recommend any picture books or Mr Rogers / Sesame Street episodes on interacting with other kids? I think that he needs examples of the skills required to talk with other kids, as well as examples of shy kids having fun with other kids.
As a side question, I don’t understand how lemmy works. How do I see the c/parenting groups on all of the other lemmy servers?
My 3 years old like dinosaurs a lot. Some time ago he decided that a good way to engage with other children on the playground would be to roar like a T-Rex at them. It even worked one time, some children started playing with him because of it. But most of the other times everyone is very confused and afraid because they don’t understand what’s going on. Two weeks ago in a kindergarten a girl told him that he should stop because she doesn’t like it, there a world broke for him, he didn’t get why this girl was so upset and started crying himself. Since then he ist doing it less often.