u/Key_Promise3734

I took my 3 year old to a play area and there was few younger children there, he has endless energy and wants to constantly play with others, when he sees other children he completely loses interest in me and wants to play with them even if they don't want to, which puts me in an awkward situation because today some of the people gave us dirty looks and left because of us , he kept trying to play with their kid but they didn't want to, I kept telling him stop and no and come play here with me but he was not interested and screaming no I won't go home,,, it happens a lot , he usually only listens to his dad, sometimes people have kids that are like him energetic and wants to play which makes it great and we have a good day, but recently I have found whenever we go most children are not interested in playing with him and usually just want to be left alone, we can't find him any children his age who he can play with who matches his energy, even in the nursery they're all just sitting there, so he ends up playing with the older children around 4 or 5, how can I teach him to respect people boundaries and stop pushing others to play with him? When we are alone it's much easier I can just play with him but as soon as he sees other children he runs towards them and tries to play with them and usually they don't want to, he even tries to play and talk with their parents and it makes it very awkward and usually they get angry and leave.