SAHM to a 15 mo old, can't afford childcare..will he be more clingy/happy to socialise when older?

[fairylights]

my ds is nearly 15 mo and i am a SAHM (and student!), which i really enjoy for the most part - ds and i get on well and have lots of fun. I take him to a playgroup/toddler thing most days just to get out of the house, and he enjoys these (as do I!). We can't really afford any childcare - like sending him to nursery a couple of mornings a week or something - and we don't have any family closer than 200 miles away so really he just has me or dh always caring for him. Sometimes i have left him with a friend who also has a son the same age with mixed success. He is quite a shy, sensitive little soul who takes a while to get used to new places/people.
Anyway, i think maybe i just want reassurance that one day when he does go to a playgroup/nursery school on his own he won't find it really difficult! (but please feel free to tell me if this wasn't the case with your LO)
I expect actually he will cope a lot better than i expect - but of course he is my PFB so i have no experience to go on..apart from the collective wisdom of MN! TIA

My 3 have all been to nursery fulltime and are no more or less clingy than children of sahms we know. it depends on their personality and i agree with lucharl that there is nothing wrong with being shy and sensitive.

yes you are right about shy and sensitive - just because i am a gregarious loudmouth doesn't mean my poor ds should follow in my footsteps! He is MUCH more like my dh in temperament..which is a lovely thing.
blob2be - i know exactly what you mean! I too end up studying (or sometimes on..ahem.. MN }every evening and weekend and have so have no social life either!
I am doing a graduate law conversion course which is in theory PT but its actually doing a law degree in 2 years so not very PT at all, and very intense! In about a million years (well 4 if i survive) i will be a lawyer, well thats the idea.. what are you doing? Or did you say? I will go back and look
But i don't think i qualify for the 85% thing if I am PT and my dh has a reasonably good salary? Will double check though, thanks!

Hi Fairylights! I could have written your post, except in our case DH is the SAHD. We do send DS to nursery for half a day a week but I'm not sure if he gets much out of it tbh. It totally depends on the nursery - his last one was brilliant, this one I'm not that sure about.

DS is also quite a sensitive little chap and I started a thread about it not so long ago. I was particularly concerned because DS doesn't really go to a toddler group as DH can't stand them! I got lots of reassuring responses and I feel much better about everything now. Hope you do too!

thanks twinklemegan! good to hear..can you remember the title of your thread?

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