Attention seeking four year old?

[fattybum]

Just waited at train station with ds1 and ds2, who are two and four and my mum. While we were there a friendly elderly man started chatting to us. All fine until ds1 starting covering his eyes in a "you can't see me!" kind of way. When he uncovered them he told the man to go away. It wasn't in an angry way, but I just feel so embarrased! After that he was sat on my knee and kept flopping all over the place and being silly. Is this just attention seeking and how should I deal with it? He often behaves like this in front of other people, not the go away comment, just silly and it makes me anxious.

Please be gentle with me I'm feeling very low at the moment....

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I think it's very normal, he probably just feels a little nervous around strangers. You could talk to both children about it later.

sounds attention seeking to me - which is very wearing. Try giving him lots of attention/praise when he is being good. Also maybe include him in the conversations with adults or have something interesting for him to play with/eat at such moments - fruit flakes or some gooey green slime.

sounds like my DS 3.5. Total pain isn't it.

Just remember, the old man probably had alot less opinion on the situation than you did. He probably thought nothing of it.