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Three year old social anxiety
My daughter is 3 years old and she has been saying lately how she doesn't like people or kids. She freaks out around other children and clings to me. I have been working more hours often 7 days in a row and she is use to be being around. Lately she has been telling children she doesn't like them. I feel horrible and I am thinking she has a social anxiety problem. She was in school this past year and her teacher never said anything. Should I be concerned?
at school? She is not in day care. She just hung out with her cousin over the weekend and she was the one being mean to her.
It almost sounds like she is being picked on by kids at some point when you are not there.
No I don't have a nanny cam.. how much are those? I trust my sitters they are friends of mine for years. She has always took a long time to warm up to anyone ever since she was little but lately she has been asking me to hold her or she will start crying when kids get to close to her like in her personal bubble.
Do you have a nanny cam? Do you fully trust the care she is getting when you are not there?
Unfortunately I wish I could stay at home more with her but I am working on a career change in the next few months that would allow me to see her more often and only work Monday -Friday.
No she is home when I am working with a babysitter or at my mother in laws. I am only working these many days because a lady left my department at work its not permanent by any means. I am not working all day just mostly 9:45 till 3:45 then I spend my time with her and my husband when I am home!
I agree with Annie, and think this might not be social anxiety but rather, gross overstimulation.
Your post doesn't make it clear where she spends all her time while you work every day, but it doesn't sound like she's at home with a caregiver - she's in a crowd of kids and daycare workers. Is that the case?
That's too much for anyone to tolerate.
Your post doesn't make it clear where she spends all her time while you work every day, but it doesn't sound like she's at home with a caregiver - she's in a crowd of kids and daycare workers. Is that the case?
That's too much for anyone to tolerate.
I would be concerned, not that she has social anxiety but that she obviously needs to see more of her mom, and your life is apparently not allowing this. I know that it is not feasible to tell some working mothers to work less, for all kinds of reasons of either family survival or serious career possibilities if they pour it on for a while, but 7 days a week? You absolutely have to be gone from her that much?
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