I'll start my saying my son has a small friendship group at school, he seems particularly close to 3 other boys who he mentions all the time (they all went to the same nursery) and he's now started to mention 1 other boy very recently who he didn't know before school.
The thing is, whenever I'm with him at school drop off and pick up, lots of other children in his class will come up and try to talk to him, say hi etc and my son just blanks them and ignores them. I encourage him to atleast say hi, but he just freezes and won't say anything.back to them. I don't know if he's just shy when I'm around, or if he just doesn't mix and talk much outside of his little group!
My husband has noticed it too when he drops him off and he's concerned he isn't mixing, although I'm.more relaxed about it as he has only just turned 5.
He also acts like this with his close friends at school if we see them oitside of school. For example we saw one of his close friends at the park recently and he was very reluctant to go and play with him. After some encouragement he went and started playing, and then he was absolutely fine and had lots of fun.
Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this with their child. Was it just an element of shyness ? My son has started to ask for play dates very recently, but I'd hate to organise one if he didn't tLk to them when they turn up