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Book & Mr Rogers episode recommendations for a shy 4 year old? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by justdadstuff@lemmy.world to c/parenting@lemmy.world

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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?

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[–] toxoplasma0gondii@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago

Do you have some contact to kids outside of preschool? Maybe they profit from more exposure with smaller groups with the security of you beeing around.

We have a very shy and afraid kid in a group of friends that formed in the first year of life of our kids, so they are all roughly the same age. We meet for smaller playdates with 2-4 kids of the group, oftentimes at one of our homes and that kids seems to have an easier time to open up a little more in this setting. She went from screaming in terror as my very outgoing and energetic kid got in a meter radius to playing together. Seems to seep into them beeing more open in daycare as well.

Or shes just growing out if it, who can really be sure about these things.

Good luck