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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What happens if you go to a playground together? For years my husband and I were the weird/trying too hard parents at the playground because it got my very anxious younger child to give it a try. We always had the goal of scaling back as much as possible. But we just kept going and going and it took time but now he plays independently with other kids in all sorts of ways. Playground sports whatever. But that’s at age 6 not 4. Some kids still have really significant separation anxiety at 4 and they need to be slowly helped to see they can separate safely. That’s the idea of SPACE, which we didn’t really know about but our older child had been through a sort of exposure therapy for a different issue and we tried to adapt what we learned through that process to our son. Kids change a lot at this age, give him some time and don’t get frustrated.

For the sensory piece, get a small trampoline and a crash pad. He can jump off it for hours. We also have a set of gymnastics mats and a bunch of balance toys, like our own mini OT gym. We don’t live in a mansion but dedicating a whole room to “a safe space to be totally wild” has been wonderful for both kids.[/quote]

Playgrounds are ok, he wants us right next to him but he'll climb etc. We've built an OT room in our house with a trampoline, climbing wall etc that we use more in the winter. [/quote]

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