My son was born during lockdown 2020. He barely saw any people for the first 6months. Then it became a gradual thing to see people, like Family parties every 1-2 months. He was fine with people up until about 8/9 months when seperation anxiety kicked in. Ever since then up until now he just doesnt socially interact. Even if he sees the same people every week, he still would not accept them picking him up. He just wants to be with me and my husband in crowded places. I would expect that after an hour or so he would allow people to pick him up etc and he would play with other kids his age or older but no. He interacts, looks at them, smiles, gives hi5, responds to their funny faces etc but doesn't go near anyone. At the nursery he accepts his key worker having a few other kids around her too. They said that he is okay with them playing near him but he has not started to interact with them. He just plays with his own stuff. At what age would you expect toddlers to communicate and play with other kids ? At home its just me and my husband and he is very social with the two of us meaning he loves playing with us not just with toys but things like tickling, throwing a ball at each other etc just the way you would expect him to play with other kids. Is this normal ? Anyone with a lockdown pregnancy/baby facing the same ? I am just hoping that this will improve soon with his nursery. Its making it hard for us to take him out to activities that involve other kids. Attending parties are hard too as we cannot allow anyone else to keep him at the party whilst we have our dinner or something. I am taking him to swimming lessons atm but after the third class he was not very happy mainly because its a close knit social environment. I am not sure how I can improve this.