- He wants to crawl back into the guitar case of our music therapist, something he’s not done for some time but initially did.
- He wants to sleep in his sleeping bag in his bed to make him feel more secure
- He talks about an upset stomach at night and needs ginger ale to calm him down so he can sleep
- He has mentioned looking at the block of knives and thinking about using them
- He likes to have the demo song playing at full volume in the bonus room so he can drown out other sounds and focus on playing with legos
- He likes putting his headphones on with or without music so he can ignore everything around him
All of this (especially the knife part) sounds scary. I talked to our play therapist today and she said the exact opposite. She said he’s entering into the next developmental plane as a child and his world has been opened up mentally to a bigger world. And with my cautious fearful child, this means worry. This means he is unable to plan and figure out what he’s going to do with all the thoughts in his head.
We’re going to have him see Dhruti, his play therapist, a few times so she can help us help him through this new change. The good news, the great news, is that Dhruti says this is completely normal for him and is a sign of maturity. She said any time this happens to him we’ll need to support him and help him and he’ll work through it with our help. I’m glad he’s okay.
The Tiny Girl Chronicles: My daughter and I came home from Detroit today. She wanted to call her brother as soon as we were in the car on the way home. What did she want to tell him? She wanted to tell him the exact Lego set we got him. Had she seen it? No, I selected it via a phone call with my husband. But she listened and she remembered and she told him just what she had picked out for him and she was happy, because she likes doing nice things for people.
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