Hello,
So I have a 20 month old son who has met another toddler a couple months younger on a couple of occasions for play dates now over the last few months.
The other toddler is also a boy, same age, but has a bigger personality than my son. He is louder and more confident. My son seems scared of him and cries around him. The other child has actually pushed my son over a couple of times.
My son isn't usually abnormally reserved and usually plays nicely and is a cheeky happy boy, but around this other boy he is not himself. He just cried, screamed and clinged to me the entire time. If the boy came near him he was very scared.
I must add the other boy is a lovely child just louder and very energetic. He had been trying to play with my son etc and I think it was frustrating for him that my son just was crying and not playing that led him to push him. His mother stopped that behaviour immediately when she saw it and apologised.
I don't know whether to keep with the play dates or to cut them for now until my son is older and happier around him? Or to keep them as my son needs to know there are different personalities out there and maybe in time he will get used to it?
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Playdate personality clash
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watdouthink · 22/09/2022 14:00
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