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With my grandchildren like my children I encouraged them to bring their friends home after school for tea, it gives them social skills and teaches them to share their toys etc, they love it their friends love it it gives other mums a little break and I love seeing them play with their friends

take them to play parks and soft play areas also meet up with friends with grankids too

Introduce them to your friends grandchildren. It's really good for them to meet kids who go to different schools and build relationships away from all the school dramas.

I find that you only need to take them to the places with other children and they will just do what seems fun - play with each other

I would say confidence is key, building confidence will enable your grandchild to make friends easily. Just as long as they know a friendship is based on trust they will be fine.

Encourage them to smile, be friendly and, most importantly to share with others!

I always tell them just to be themselves, be kind to other children and help them if you can, be social, not shy, and have fun .x

Offer to have a playday together or if all else fails McDonalds

Encourage them to talk about anything.

I find the best way is to trajectory them to baby groups and nursery's from a young age so they learn to socialise and as they get older regularly take them to see family or friends children so they learn how to get along with others

I now have a dramatic image of a granny throwing children into a nursery and leaving smartly before they object!

( I'd never heard of trajectoring anyone or anything, so I checked a dictionary - trajectory - noun - the path followed by a projectile flying or an object moving under the action of given forces. )