My two year old son occasionally plays with a boy a few months younger. But the problem is they don't play and haven't done for at least a year. Instead this other boy follows my son around screaming and fighting with him to get whatever he has in his hands. If my son gives in (which he used to do) it would start all over again when he found something else to play with. This child would also regularly hit my son. My son is now more confident and unwilling to give up the toy he is playing with - so this child is now resorting to full on tantrums to get his own way. I don't know his mum well enough to have a frank discussion about the situtation - she dismisses everything as something he will grow out of. Also, I suspect there are other issues involved - I remember that he always slept with his eyes half closed, he has always been v distant and disinterested in people around him - he barely aknowledges other children's existence except as a threat to his toys, he is physically akward and when I recently read a book with him he said what's that? repeatedly without seeming the least bit interested in the answer. I don't want to upset his mum especially if there are undiagnosed reasons for his extreme behaviour but I can't put my son in the position where he could get hit again (they are old enough to properly hurt each other), besides neither child is getting anything out of their playdates together.
PLEASE HELP ME WITH ANY ADVICE!
PS We can't do stuff outside at the moment - I have a newborn
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