luvmygirlz
08-08-2008, 05:05 PM
Hello moms and dads, im new here and in need of some advice. My five year old daughter is really shy and I need some advice on helping her out. She has a hard time adjusting to new things and new people. She won't even go up to other kids on the playground to play with them, and runs off when someone goes up to her to play.
I enrolled her in dance classes, and even ice skating classes (that i took with her), thinking this would help her adjust. It was actually her idea to take the classes. But as soon as the first day came around she would just cry and refuse to do anything. She would even promise to do it the following class, but by the following class it was the same thing...we ended up just sitting on the side for 5 classes, then i just gave up on going after the 5th try.
She loves to dance and sing at home, but she gets terrified to take the classes.
She started kindergarden last year and cried for the first 3 weeks, but as soon as she adjusted she was actually one of the best students. Her teacher would constantly tell me how shes a good helper and how shes always willing to help out other students.
Well shes starting first grade in a few weeks and she tells me that everytime she thinks about it, it makes her nervous. I tried talking to her and reminding her how it was hard the first few weeks in kindergarden, but how after she made lots of new friends and she ended up loving school. That doesn't seem to help much, cause shes still terrified. We even went school shopping and I let her pick out a new backpack and clothes, but that didn't seem to help either.
I enrolled her in dance classes, and even ice skating classes (that i took with her), thinking this would help her adjust. It was actually her idea to take the classes. But as soon as the first day came around she would just cry and refuse to do anything. She would even promise to do it the following class, but by the following class it was the same thing...we ended up just sitting on the side for 5 classes, then i just gave up on going after the 5th try.
She loves to dance and sing at home, but she gets terrified to take the classes.
She started kindergarden last year and cried for the first 3 weeks, but as soon as she adjusted she was actually one of the best students. Her teacher would constantly tell me how shes a good helper and how shes always willing to help out other students.
Well shes starting first grade in a few weeks and she tells me that everytime she thinks about it, it makes her nervous. I tried talking to her and reminding her how it was hard the first few weeks in kindergarden, but how after she made lots of new friends and she ended up loving school. That doesn't seem to help much, cause shes still terrified. We even went school shopping and I let her pick out a new backpack and clothes, but that didn't seem to help either.