Hello,
This might be a ridiculous question but I was wondering if anyone else had experienced this.
My daughter is very social, she loves making friends and is in the stage of copying everything everyone says and does. She's quite high energy, she tries to chase and play but she isn't aggressive or anything negative she just wants to laugh and play. I take her out to the park and fields etc where we live. The last 3/4 times every child she has tried to play with or join in with what they were doing seem to ignore her and act like she isn't there. Some because they were shy and about the same age and were wanting to be with their mums etc, but some just didn't seem open to wanting to socialise with children they didn't know. There's obviously nothing I can do about other children's personalities/behaviour, but it seems to be happening quite a lot and I just don't want it to effect her in a way where she will stop trying to play with other kids when we're out or to feel like she's being rejected all the time.
I more wanted to know if this was to do with how the world has changed and if screen time and less social interaction as a whole may be playing a part in this. Or maybe I should be teaching stranger danger at this point? Because she sometimes wants to interact with other mum's/grandma's joining in games they're playing with their families because if she sees any type of fun she just wants to be involved 😂. It's hard because I don't want her to see socialising as scary or dangerous. When I've explained about cars and crossing roads she seems to worry and say she's scared so I didn't want to put this on her about making friends. What is the best way to handle this?