I don’t know if it’s something you need to force on someone. From what I’ve seen it takes a lot of casual exposure to socialization to get someone to become “less shy.”

Especially kids, you have to get them to do something they think is fun that also has people there so they kind of make the connection that socializing with people can also be fun.

I think trying a bunch of different hobbies to see what works is definitely the right approach though! That 5-10 age range is when they’re figuring out what they even like, so it’s prime exposure time for all kinds of stuff! If you can manage it try everything for like 2-4 meetups to see how she reacts and if she hooks onto something then boom you’ve found your socializing catalyst!

In Japan they ramp up the time the kid is in the daycare over a week or two. But the parent doesn’t stay in the daycare.

When I’m taking care of the kids I want time to myself, and when I get time cause they’re in daycare I wanna hang with them, it’s a vicious cycle.

This has been my issue trying to get bilingual channels registered, for some reason a lot of channels for one country aren’t allowed in YouTube kids in another.

You even get the “seeing the explosion before you hear it”, effect cause they get the frozen crying face for a few seconds before the wails kick in.

My arm is too big, every time I put mine down I have to figure out how to extricate my big ol’ ham hawks from beneath the baby lest their head fall five feet to the mattress.