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[quote=Anonymous]My 9 year old still has a lot of social anxiety, but if I look back and compare to when she was 6, it has improved. She will still slow-walk into new situations, she is very quiet, she has a hard time making eye contact, she frequently ignores or turns away from people who greet her, etc., but we are working on it slowly and with baby steps. We do ask that she acknowledges people who say hello to her and ask her a question - it's a work in progress though.

But here's an example of the baby steps: there's a really sweet boy who was in her class last year that we see at the pool most weekends and he always says hi to her. At the beginning of the summer, she wouldn't even look at him, sometimes she'd actively turn away so she wouldn't have to talk to him. We talked about the importance of acknowledging someone's greeting and that if she didn't feel comfortable saying hi, she could at least turn towards him and wave, so she did that for a few weeks, and then she worked her way up to making eye contact, waving, and saying "hi". And finally this past weekend, she replied with a loud and enthusiastic "hi!" back to him. [/quote]

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