Toddler lockdown anxiety?

[Anxioustoddler]

Hi,

Wondered if any other parents of toddlers have experienced this? My DS is 2.5 and we had a (stressful for me) but ok in general first lockdown, his sibling was here the whole time and we went for a walk every day, played, baked etc. DH didn’t stay here much over lockdown as he was working 60 hr weeks out of the home so just me and the kids.
Since things have gone semi normal, he refused to go anywhere! We tried to see my friends with kids and he screams ‘I want to go home’, he will scream if I say we need to go to a shop and tense so he doesn’t get out of the car, same with activity places or any form of day out and now he’s even refusing to go for walks or to the park.
He refuses to talk in any way to anyone that isn’t me, his dad or his siblings.

It’s like he’s got some sort of anxiety but he’s only so little!

Has anyone else experienced this or got any tips?

Thanks

My DD has just turned 3 and she was like this when lockdown first eased, always saying she wanted to go home and flinching away from other children. It was really upsetting. We just kept persevering with taking her out and reassuring her that there was nothing to be scared of and gradually she got used to being around people again. Unfortunately now we're in lockdown again...!

DD is 2 and was quite clingy when we returned to activities after the first lockdown - she would want to be held for the whole session and wouldn't join in. Some other toddlers in the same class were refusing to even enter the room or building (they'd been going every week before lockdown). All of them have managed to get back to normal within a couple of weeks. DD has started nursery part-time so she'll be able to continue going to keep up her social interaction, so hopefully she won't be affected by this one. I'll be taking her out to parks and nature reserves every day when she isn't at nursery, as I think it's good for her to see other people around, even if she doesn't interact with them.