Socializing The Baby
Posted on May 7, 2008 - Filed Under Baby Life, Parenting, Year One
We are at a point now where it is probably time to get Alexander some face time with other kids. We’ve realized that he really doesn’t interact with other children because there are none around our area, and he is spending most of his time with adults.
The difficult thing for us is trusting someone else to supervise him for a few hours a day. I never thought it would be so hard but now that I am in this situation I find that I really struggle with the fact that I need to let him get into a daycare or child group a few hours per week without mom and dad around.
We think that the interaction with other kids would be good from a development standpoint. He gets to learn how to share, be social and it will probably help his communication skills as well.
I was thinking about do a local search for “play dates” with other parents in our area, but have no idea if there is anything available.
How do other parents deal with this?
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My neighbor, Becca, and also Carolanne Knoll both have social groups they deal with. Carolanne has a daycare provider for one of her wee ones for two hours one day a week I believe. Becca has a mommy and me group. Also, most of the local larger churches have mommie and me daycares and Emmanual Lutheran Church where Travis went has a very good day care. The best recommendations come from other parents like Carolanne if you have that resource. I can send you her email address. I also like the Montessori groups and my neighbor’s daughter works at one so I could ask her, too.
I keep my daughter out of day care until she started school big mistake…She had a couple of cousins she played with but it was not enough. I was home with her or her dad. She had a very hard time adjusting to sharing, and talking with them. She was a child in an adult world so she was way ahead of the other children…..Day care does help….Down here we have Bounce U…you might want to start with something like that…Just an FYI it is the hardest thing to leave your child in a strange place when they are screaming and crying.
Before decided on anyone place take him with you to go and look at the places….The only warning is when your child goes to daycare they pick up all the other childrens bad habits..
Have a great day
Thanks for the info Dee, I appreciate it. I am in the same situation, where Alex is growing up in an “adult” world which is why we’ve been looking at trying to get him around kids his age.
And you are right… It will be difficult leaving him with someone else. :)
I’m facing the same thing with my daughter right now. I’m so afraid to leave her at a daycare because of all the germs. I don’t want her being sick all the time. She takes Kindermusik where she gets to sing, dance, and play instruments with other kids and me around to disinfect her hands. We looked at some Mother’s Day Out programs sponsored by churches and are thinking about putting her in one next year. These are only about 3 hours a day 3 times a week.
My sister in law went to the library during story time to find the playgroup that she joined with my nephew.