Should I push my DCs to socialise?

[Brunelofbrio]

DCs are 6 & 4. They have settled into their new routine ok but I am a bit concerned about their lack of peer contact. Neither of them find social interaction easy but both were beginning ( with support) to make friends at school.

Initially I tried to maintain these links with online ‘playdates’ etc but both DCs are now declining to do any more. DC1 is no longer trying to make any kind of contact with our neighbours children either online or by her usual method of shouting over the fence!

Should I try to persuade them to particpate in skype conversations or just accept that we will have to just try and rebuild relationships once the lockdown ends? I just worry that they will find it even harder to make friends ( and it was proving hard enough already)

Leave it.

My 8yo enjoys talking to gps on zoom, one friend who he's doing Lego challenge with and his cousin in NZ who he plays Roblox with - Roblox on the tablet, shouting over WhatsApp video at the same time .

However, there will be the first school class zoom tomorrow and he's dreading it! And he has no inclination to private-chst with anyone else, no one at all. He sometimes chats with DH's family on their giant zoom chat, but it's in anx out, and off he goes.

He's fairly picky, I suppose. But he's happy with that and we don't push for more.

He understand lockdown a bit more because he's older than yours, but it's still unsettling, of course. He's a social bunny and no doubt when things get back to "normal" he'll be out with his mates again.

It's a relatively short time span in their lives and they'll get past it back to socialising again. I understand your worry though