Children's Socialization Challenges

Communicate? Yes. Socialize? No.It's easier to socialize when you are physically beside someone.There are less kids playing in the street. They are no arcades.As a parent you must bring your child to other children. You must encourage or mandate extracurricular activities.We are not a society where children are naturally surrounded by other children in their 0-4 years.We are not a society where adults are naturally surrounded by similiar adults outside of the in office work s

> Your friends with kids still want to see you.If you both have kids, then the kids may also want a chance to socialize. Meeting new people with their parent is a great opportunity to expand their social network and learn how they should act in front of friendly people.Of course, the parent needs to be smart about it to avoid or correctly correct the negative sides, but assuming you're a good parent, a well-socialized kids will grow up differently in many better ways than a complet

Funny... All of my kid's friends are pretty wholesome, respectful, nice people. Always happy to have them visit to play. But many of their parents (30-40 years old) are pretty bad. Not nasty, but just... anti-social and aloof, totally absorbed in themselves and their phones. I couldn't imagine raising our kids together in some sort of shared commune.

I think not. Kids want social interaction.

This was true for people I know who had kids 20 years ago, but not so much today. When I became a parent, I thought I’d be meeting and hanging around with all the other parents, but so far (kid is now 12), this didn’t end up happening. Kids all hang out online now. Nobody wants to get together in person. My kid has had some friends for years, where I still have not even met the friends’ parents. In the rare event one of them wants to come over to our home to visit, the parent quietly drops the k

Schools are the problem. Hear me out.Schools group together only one age of kid for socialization and only 20-30 of them. If your kid is not into the same thing as enough of the other kids in that group, they will likely be ostracized, even unintentionally. So you must let your kid do the things their friends do.Broader society does not restrict the age of who you can socialize with. My friends vary in age quite a bit. My friend's kid can play with my kid despite being a different age

I had a similar experienced as a kid in the 2000s, though not quite as strict as yours.My group of school friends would talk in person at school and then hop on a Call of Duty lobby when they got home, or chat on Facebook/SMS. Without internet or a cell phone, I was only present for a small portion of the their conversations and activities. Someone might post something funny or shocking on Facebook and everyone would be talking about it at school the next day. Sometimes people would cont

That assumes there kids of the same age in neighborhood with similar lifestyle. Which is quite a lot to ask these days.There are less kids overall.Kids today have more activities, so you won't meet them just by randomly going outside.They do a lot more activities at home on computer, again you won't meet them randomly outside.Parents are not even allowed to let their 6-7 years old outside alone, meaning they would had to be with them. Meaning kids won't get habit to he

> You are basically agreeing that you can no longer have friends, but countering that you can choose to socialize with fellow parents.wut.you make friends from the people you're around, not the ideal people you'd like to talk to.like in HS, where often you were friends with the kids in your classes.if you're desperate for people just like you then move to get them, or make the effort to find those groups. there is a cost there, in terms of moving, or babysitters, b

this assumes that the best way to develop socially and improve soft skills is to hang out with other children.