Hi everyone! As the title suggests my son is 2 next month and is just SO shy. I thought it was because we didn’t see enough people so I made a conscious effort to start seeing more family and friends the last 3/4 months. If truth be told I became a bit of a recluse this year after a horrendous pregnancy with HG and moving house a few weeks before an elected c section. It has helped him a TON but he really is just still so incredibly shy. He used to cling to me and cry when people came over but now he warms up to them after 15/20 mins or so.
Alongside visiting friends/family we go out for walks a lot, parks, soft plays etc. he takes and picks his older brother up from school so he does see people often. I’m happy I’ve started to make more of an effort so I’m sort of coming to the conclusion it’s just his personality? I’m wondering if anybody else had a child that seemed super shy and if they grew out of it or not?
I’m only wondering because we cannot leave him with anybody. I had my nan and grandad watch him the other day whilst I went to an important appointment with the baby and he SCREAMED the entire time. It’s weird because out of everybody he sees often he loves them the most, he’s always saying nanny and grandad every day so it shocked me he cried so bad. I also have signed him up to a gymnastics class, he’s been twice so far and hasn’t let his feet touch the floor whilst there! 🥴 Although does LOVE watching the other children, he smiles the entire time, it’s like he’s desperate to get involved but his shyness stops him.
I was a shy kid when I was younger and it did genuinely affect me a lot. A fair few of my earliest memories are moments where I was so painfully shy, it’s like they’ve been engraved on my brain. I don’t want him to feel that way tbh but I don’t think there’s much more I can do really.