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[quote=Anonymous]My kid has my anxiety and my petite stature. My parents let my anxiety run the show, allowing me to quit every extracurricular they tried to sign me up for and beg myself out of playdates, which only exacerbated my issues. I wasn't [i]unpopular[/i] necessarily, but had pretty bad social anxiety and came off as shy and aloof. Being small also played into my shyness, making it easier for me to go unnoticed.

My husband and I recognized our daughter's anxiety early and got her therapy in preschool. We talked about extracurriculars with her before signing her up and then made her stick with it for the season, even when she was anxious to play and spent the first half of practice crying. By the end of the season, she was always happy she had done it. She not only learned the skills of the sport (soccer, ice skating, baseball), but also worked her social muscles. She's in second grade now and extremely outgoing and popular. She still struggles with anxiety at times, but we work through it. It makes me wonder if my school experience could have been different, if I could have been more outgoing, with different support, or if this is a way that we're naturally different.[/quote]

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