I am 100% for attachment parenting. It has been great and my son is as close to perfect as a 1 year old can be. I am concerned that he is too attached. When we go places where there are other children his age, they all play together, and Skye wants nothing to do with them. He wants to play with me or mama instead. I think that with him being only a year, this is normal, but I just want to make sure. There isn't reall a whole lot of oppertunity for him to play with other children his age in our town, so I take him places where he can get his socailization, whether he's interested or not. He usually spends his time at these places chasing me around and playing games with me and totally ignoring the other children.
He's only one. Some kids don't start to socialise until they are older. Every kid is different, and as long as you keep giving him the opportunity to play with other kids, he's fine. One day, he'll probably surprise you.
that's totally age-appropriate behavior. It will probably get worse, if he's anything like my girls... they became really shy around people and had major separation anxiety at around 18 months, then at about three years totally came out of their shells and started interacting with everyone around them. There's no such thing as too attached, that's like saying he loves you too much! It's okay, it's not society's norm, but it is better for him and for you in the long run.
I agree with mamaboogie - my older son is almost 3, and is just starting to get really into other kids. He used to be just into mama and dada!
It's totally normal, my kids all did it. My twins are 3.5 years old and they usually ignore other kids though out in a play-setting, it's like the two of them are in their own little world together. I figure it's just a twin-thing though, I mean, they share a pretty close bond!
That is normal. I thought my son would never socialize even though I'd take him to parks and playgroups regularly, he just wanted to play with me. At around 2-1/2 to 3, it changed and now he loves playing with his friends. Whenever we go anywhere now, he runs to hang out with other kids his age. Enjoy
Many one year olds really don't "socialize" that much. They may want to look at otther babies, and poke them in the eye, but, they don't "play" together. Even if they do have to spend time together, most babies this age engage in "Parallel Play" which is when two babies may sit NEAR each other, engaging in similar activities, and looking to mama or daddy for reassurance frequently. MANY babies this age ONLY want mama or daddy or older siblings. Why is this good? Well, at this age, parents can teach them a lot more than other children their age can. They are PROGRAMMED to want to be mostly around adults at this age. Today, I had a La Leche League meeting. There were a number of babies about your boy's age. Most spent most of their time on mama's lap, or crawling or walking around the room, banging on things or climbing on ME. (I am one of those womyn who is a Baby Magnet, if babies get near me they want to be ON me. ) After the meeting, I was reading a few 10 month olds a book, but they wanted ME to do it and had only passing interest in each other. What I have seen, by studying Child Development, doing child care, and teaching parenting and breastfeeding classes, where there are a lot of kids around, and seeing my own kids, is that "socialzing" as we see it starts around three for most kids, and older for some. Occasionaly, kids who have older brothers or sisters may gravatate towards chilldren their sister's ages, but mostly they want MAMA or DADDY. HLS, you little boy is totally normal.
