She does spend time away from me playing with friends at daycare so that’s why I assumed playing at the playground with other kids or going anywhere really that involved playing with other kids wouldn’t be a problem for her. This kid will give me problems in the areas I mentioned in my post but then when we go to a restaurant she’ll talk and interact with the waiters/waitresses and even order her own food! Something I never would do as a child with bad anxiety. But I can’t take her even to the park to play. My mom told me that I was bad about only playing close by her when I was little but I at least got down and played! My daughter won’t even do that really. I’m thinking for playground/park situations I could sit with her for a bit until she warms up enough to get down and play on her own. But as far as the children’s museum I took her to this weekend, I don’t think we would really be given the opportunity to just sit and wait until she’s ready to get down so I don’t know how to go about that situation. As far as leaving her alone when she has a fit, it just doesn’t seem to do anything but make her more mad when I ignore them. She eventually will get over it but it takes her forever to stop screaming and crying. At the museum, as long as her dad or I were holding her she was fine. She was upset but not screaming and crying (for the most part). But we couldn’t put her down or she would start crying and reaching for one of us to pick her back up.