It seems, your newborn baby was goodwill and did not worry at all concerning the one who is with him nearby. Grandmothers, grandfathers, neighbors – everything entered a circle of the "entrusted" persons. But so was only about half a year. After this rubezhny date you suddenly began to notice that the child behaves extremely watchfully in the presence of foreign people.
From now on various uninvited guests, doctors and even sellers in shop can represent for you a serious problem. The child begins to be afraid of their presence, to ask to mom or dad on handles and even loudly and modulatingly to cry. Actually this serious test as for parents who are in confusion from such behavior of the child, and for the kid.
The thing is that this period is inevitable in development of each child. After half a year your kid begins to distinguish familiar and unfamiliar faces accurately. It is obvious that those people who will be most often near it and will be among those of whom he will not be afraid. Be not surprised if your child begins to cry at appearance of the grandmother and grandfather which he did not see more than three weeks.
What to do, you ask? Such situation is unpleasant and dangerous to mental health of the kid. And as parents, worry about it better and not to speak! For a start in such situation it is necessary to calm down and to soberly estimate the taking place events. If your child is absolutely healthy and painfully reacts only to emergence unfamiliar to it people, arrive as follows.
Do not abuse and do not criticize the kid for his fear. The child absolutely naturally tries to show you that this person for any reasons is unpleasant to him. Besides your child to learn to be protected, he for the present does not know that except mom there are still people who will not begin to offend him. You should not say phrases: "As it is not a shame to you!" or "And well stop crying and sit at the grandmother (the grandfather, the aunt) on handles!"
Do not force the kid to contact to the person of whom he is afraid. In this case you have to think first of all of health and psychological comfort of the kid. Try to explain tactfully to the relatives, friends that your baby is not ready to communicate with them so close. If they are reasonable and judicious people, then will be able to understand it.
Be not afraid. There are such situations when communication with strangers is inevitable. For example, visit of children's policlinic. Many children reacts to district doctors crying, shout, hysterics. However admit, you also wish to refuse these visits because you are afraid of people in white dressing gowns since childhood. The child will surely feel your spirit and will be afraid even more.
Do not avoid people. You can think that time the child is afraid of foreign people, and you should not visit such places. It is incorrect, so you doom the child to a long phobia. Surely you go together with it to shops, to playgrounds, to the developing center. Let to you guests also come. Just you hold a certain distance and every time show to the kid that you are near, and he is in safety.
Do not worry in vain. This age will pass soon, and your kid will become the sociable child. But you owe it surely help with it. Have patience and at you everything will turn out!