During our holiday over Christmas, I noticed my little boy saying, “I’m shy” when confronted with a social situation he wasn’t sure about, for instance, a couple of kids interacting on the beach, who he’d like to play with. This is something relatively new, and I’m not sure where he learned the expression, but he obviously feels it fits with the emotions he has around trying to interact with some new encounters. Fortunately, I find it doesn’t take much to cajole him into pa