Stress in social situations - how to help

[Orange32]

Hi

DS is 8 year old, he finds new social situations extremely hard. He has summer camp this week, both days already we went down only for him to refuse to go in. he finds all new social situations very hard. Any tips to help him with this would be great. We do dicuss where we are going befor ewe get there but it just seems total fear takes over and nothing else matters

Thanks in advance

Have you tried signing him up for things with a friend? Is he ok when he knows someone there?

My DS (also 8 and very shy) froze when he went to sports camp and there was no-one he knew. Thankfully one of the boys from his school was just a little late.

The boy isn't even a friend of DS's or in his class and they weren't put in the same group, it was just knowing that there was familiar face that calmed him down.