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Socialising your charge?

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LizzyBk · 18/04/2012 14:04

Hi all,
I'm a nanny to a 16m/o boy in Aberdeen (have been with him since he was 6m/o) and now he's getting a bit older I'm more concerned with socialising him. He's his parent's only child so far, and as they're the first in their social group to have kids he doesn't have any playmates through them I could follow up with. Of the few of my social circle who have children most of them are of the wrong age group so that isn't really an option either. I take him to a toddlers group once a week which he loves, but I think it would be nice for him to build up friendships in smaller groups/ one-on-one (there's about 30 toddlers in the playgroup). I used to work in Edinburgh before this job and there was a good few nanny groups where my charge and I could meet other children and their nannies for trips etc, but have so far had no luck finding out about it up here. I have posted in the local section but thought I'd ask if anyone had any general advice about how they'd socialised their charges in similar situations?

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candr · 18/04/2012 16:33

I have met people by going to different classes and seeing wht they were like and how people interacted with me and their own kid. Swimming, music group, story time at local library etc. You will start to see some of the same nanny's, mums at the same places so is easier to make conversation. A 16mo def needs more contact than 1 playgroup session a week. Really you have to make the friends and hope the kids get on!

Octaviapink · 18/04/2012 18:56

TBH I wouldn't worry too much - at 16m they don't make proper friendships anyway and the toddler groups are fine for him. Plenty of children don't really have much social contact until they go to nursery school and they're fine with it as long as they've been taught about things like taking turns and 'things belonging to everyone'.

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