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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. My son is fairly shy, especially around boys. So if we are at the playground together, he avoids him. But the other boy says hi and tries to get my so to play with him.  And my son usually hangs back.  If it were anyone else, I’d encourage him to say hi and go play with his classmate. But I don’t want to pressure him with this boy since he’s had a bad experience with him.[/quote]

Jesus, holding it against a kid for hitting when they were in preschool? You will be warping your son if you let him continue to think that he can only be friends with people who are perfect, because there aren't any. He needs to learn to accept apologies and move on from there. The other boy is saying hi and trying to be friends with your kid. Why don't you explain to your DS that that was a long time ago, and the other boy seems like he's turned into a nice 5 year old. It would probably take your DS all of two minutes to start feeling comfortable with this kid again, and wouldn't that be preferable to fostering some ridiculous fear of someone he will be seeing around for the foreseeable future? If it were an ongoing issue I would say avoid, but come one, once when the kids were 3??[/quote]

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