How to Help Your Child to Find New Friends at Age of 5 and 6?
A good basic rule when it is up to help your child to find new friends is to do it as less as possible. You can always invite the kids from the neighborhood to visit your home and to provide a room and toys for play, but immediately after that just leave the room. Check from time to time what’s going and if there is some quarrels or some offended kid just try to calm down the situation. There is nothing wrong to make your kid a friend with the children of your friends, but don’t try to choose his friends in the school. Let your child do that alone without any intervention from your side.
The children need to communicate with each other for many reasons, but the most important of them is that they don’t think like adults. Therefore, their play during this age is kind of the dramatization of situations which disturb them. For example, if there is a baby in the home or the child has younger brother or sister, then that child can play the role of the younger kids during the group game of a family or can be the strict parent who always punishes his children. Your main duties during this period are to provide all the needed toys and to encourage such group games. You can use for the purpose different dining and kitchen sets, plastic dinosaurs, animals and dolls. There are many popular movies which can provoke such group games to continue for hours, it’s much better than watching TV or playing PlayStation.
Be careful and listen if the children irritate each other or make different allies between each other, it’s really common during this age. If you hear words like “I hate you “, then it’s time to step in. Try to calm down the children and made them to give a hug to each other and simply try to distract their attention. Some snack and sandwiches are ideal for that purpose. And don’t forget to let them fix their relationship by themselves.
If your child doesn’t want to participate in the group games, it may sound strange, but there is nothing to worry about. Most like everything is okay and your child simply show the so-called” busy” behavior. Most likely such children are just playing with puzzles or different books. They are more interesting at the moment in such toys and they will join the group game after they finish. The best possible reason for such a behavior is because this kid is more concentrated than his coeval and is not so interesting from different wildly games.
The situation is completely different if the kid stays away from the group and watches it sadly. Then you have to try to involve the child in some polite way in the game. The shy kids are doing better in small, more organized groups which include 1-2 years younger kids.