Hi, My daughter (5yrs) use to cry everytime when she's going out without me even when she's going out to her friend's house in the same society to play. Recently I have observed her behavior like this because earlier she use to go to her friends house to play and never cried. Is this separation anxiety which she's going through?? Please suggest how to tackle this, specially in this pandemic situation.

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this type of behaviour / stranger anxiety is very common and after corona this problem has aggravated because the children could not go outside to socialize.
it is important that you should take the child outside and stay with the child so that along with you present in the surrounding the child will be able to to observe people and then gradually mingle   with people and children
there is no need to hurry that the child should immediately play   with other children or or people and you should give space and time to the child to work upon it
there is no need to worry and the child will definitely come out of this scared behaviour.