My 7 year old DS is anxious about trying new things, specially if they involve meeting new people. He desperately needs to make friends and get used to meeting new people so we keep trying to gently encourage him to get out of his comfort zone. He has a couple new things coming up in the new term and we're not even talking about them so as to avoid the anxiety it will cause. I was wondering if any of you might know of a fun light-hearted book about these sort of situations, but nothing too childish. My ds is only 7 but his reading age is 11 and he's very mature.
To give an example, a couple of years ago he was so anxious about making friends, we bought him this book which had positive results: www.amazon.co.uk/How-Be-Friend-Friends-Families/dp/0316111538/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314261507&sr=8-1
He is far more receptive to books than to anything I might tell him so I'd like to buy him something similar, just more age appropriate.
TIA