What I Learned About My 6 Year Old Today....

I've got one. He is my oldest SS...he has been this way ever since birth...I had the privilege of meeting him when he was 5 years old and making friends with the waitresses at the restaurants....now ge is 19 years old, in his first year of college and has already made so many friends other kids are baffled by how he knows so many people already and classes just started in Jan.

He is one of those people that you can take ANYWHERE and he can talk to ANYBODY! Consequently, whenever we go out he runs into somebody he knows, no matter where we are...on the coast in Oregon, at Disneyland in CA...traveling thru Montana, at the dentist office...it's a running joke at this point...(but I try not to kid anymore, he got me out of a speeding ticket a few months because he knew the cop that pulled me over)...

He is highly sensitive, always has been...never did that great in school but always had tons of friends!

I tell him he should be a politician...he wants to be a writer :)

Some people are just born this way...and have it in them!

i don't, but what fun for you! she sounds absolutely charming and a delight to be around!
:) khairete
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Well .You just describe my 8 years old .She still does the fight for homework,high emotion(no one loves me in this family kind of things one minute and the next she'll hug you say sorry and help you fold the laundry...??? i guess it is my daughter way of apologizing to me).And yes she is an extremely social butterfly too .She is very helpful ,respectful ,and polite with other but not always with mama. I thought that her acting out for my daughter at least might be due to having 3 younger sibling to share the mama attention with.But may be it is just her personality,who knows?
So i don't have solution and i am interested in the responses you will get.Just wanted to let you know you are definately not alone.

Both my kids are like this. It is a joy to watch them walk into a room and dive right into the social whirl. They must have gotten the social skills gene from my husband. Or maybe it is because I let them both be passed around as infants. Neither were raised to be clingers (even tho sometimes mommy might have enjoyed a little cling!).

Since my previous response, we ran into a girl from a different K-class at her school while out shopping. She was thrilled to see her, called her by name, the other girl didn't know my dd's name, and my dd also knew that this girl had been absent from school that day. The kid is only at school for 1/2 day kinder (2 hrs 20 min.).

Oh, and last night at the grocery, she saw someone else she knew from another K-class. Knew her by name, too. It just floors me at how social she is, but says she doesn't like school because she is bored, they sit on the carpet too much, yada yada.

She sounds a bit like my almost 6 yr old daughter. My daughter practically gets mugged getting off of the bus. Mine isn't quite so out there and open, asking others about themselves. She still likes to be the center of attention and I'm working at breaking the bragging habit. Other kids seem to like her and she knows quite a few outside of her class.

She was always one to go up to another table of guests at a restaurant and try to teach them signs in ASL. Usually animal signs. It was so funny because she is so petite and people were amazed at such a tiny thing talking so clearly. Looked like 9 months, talked like 4 yrs, was about 18 months.

I think there is a hormonal phase that girls go through (don't know about boys, yet, getting there soon) at about this age. My daughter is starting to grow out of the mouthy behavior and the emotional tantrums at a drop of the hat.

Hang in there and enjoy her joy.