My 4 year old recently started school (6 months after her class started) and this is her first time away from us on a regular basis and while she is doing ok with it she seems to be struggling to be around the other kids.She's never been particularly great with kids her own age but does well with older/younger kids. We travelled a lot for the last 4 years and while she's met lots of people, they've mostly been adults and the occasional child. This means she's fantastic at playing by herself for long periods of time and doing her own thing. It also means she gets really overwhelmed around lots of other kids.With this in mind we picked out a great school that is very play based, not so structured and is really small for a city school (her class has 8 kids including her). It focuses a lot on nature and allows her the freedom to be quite independent. She loves it! But she's struggling to play with other kids. Sometimes she doesn't want to and just does her own thing quietly but sometimes when she tries to play they tell her no. The class is mostly girls (1 boy) who seem to like playing specific games with each other and no one else. My daughter doesn't seem to pick up the subtleties of these games (such as playing mummy and daddies and doing things a specific way) and frustrates them a lot to the point where they pushed her away and told her not to play with them. The teacher didn't see it and I didn't intervene but I felt quite bad for her. There is one girl who goes between playing with these girls and playing alone and she often asks to play with my daughter which is super sweet. But mostly my daughter stays by herself doing her own thing.We're considering doing occupational therapy to help her socially, but apart from that what else can we do?TL;DR my 4 years old whose quite socially awkward is battling to make friends and now some of the girls won't play with her when she tries. How can I help her make friends? via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2vpu6Fn
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