Follow-up to the "Making Friends" post: Sydney made a new friend at the playground!
We were just about to leave, having been there for about 40 minutes by ourselves, when a mom showed up with two kids, a grandma and two little dogs. The little girl immediately headed to the play structure where Sydney ran right up to her and asked if she wanted to play... she said YES! Aahh, the joys of childhood. They ran and ran and ran and ran for the next hour while us moms compared notes on the challenges of making friends at our kids' tender ages (the other girl was five and a half and her little brother was three and a half). This other mom told me that her daughter went through the exact same thing a couple years ago where no one wanted to play with her and she kept trying to make friends with everyone.
I find this interesting, how the social dynamics of making/shunning friends starts so early and carries on through our lives. I suppose it is just passed on from generation to generation, from older kids to younger siblings, and on and on. I wish the trend could be broken. But then we'd probably have to move to an unoccupied island or live in a bubble. As they say, with risk comes reward. I will encourage Sydney to continue putting herself out there, risking rejection, for great friendships to come.
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