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Showing posts with label baby too friendly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baby too friendly. Show all posts

Thursday, March 17, 2011

My kid is too friendly!

I have a problem with my son.  He's too social, charming, gregarious, you name it.  A born performer, my 20-month-old is happiest when he is in a huge group of people with the attention on him.

He gets so excited about a trip to the store, he'll be practically dancing in his carseat.  Though he prefers to walk next to us, we put him in the shopping cart so he doesn't walk up to random strangers to say, "Hi."  (He still greets everyone we pass, but in the shopping cart, we can restrain him better.)

When he gets home from school in the afternoon, we give him a snack and try to get him to sit on the floor with us and play with toys, or read a book.  He will, but after about half an hour, he drifts over to the window.  He'll then sit at the window, waving down at passing cars, and people walking dogs, yelling greetings and identifying what he sees.  "Doggie!  Truck!  Hi!  Hey!  Hi doggie!  Car!  Beep beep!"