My 5 yr old son who is confident and sociable and funny and lovely and bright is experiencing what I can only describe as regression. I'm sure it's very common etc, but I just need some tips on how to handle it sensitively and correctly.
16 months ago I had 2 still births. Even though he was young, my son sort of understood what had happened and knew we were all sad. And we talked about it.
Last year I moved him to a private school which i felt would offer him a great start to his education. It is great, but quite pressurized I think.
7 months ago DH and I started up our own business and have been pretty focused on it for many many months now and probably haven't given DS the time and attention he has needed.
Yes, i'm feeling guilty about all of it!
From being dry at night, he started bed wetting and its got increasingly worse - up to 3 times a night. We are all exhausted.
He was always very clingy as a toddler and hated nursery etc and being away from me. But he got over this phase and was confident and fab. Recently he says he doesn't like school, doesn't want to go there any more (don't know if it's that school, or just school per se) and cries from time to time when I drop him there in the mornings. Real, big scared tears.
He's having bad dreams which are waking him up scared in the night.
I caught him sucking his thumb tonight (he NEVER has sucked his thumb!)
And today out of the blue he said to me - "We all worked so hard for you to have another baby, and you let it die"
Totally floored me.
I am so concerned about how to handle all of this.
Any thoughts or ideas?
Thanks so much
DHW
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5 yr old massive regression - HELP
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dhw · 16/10/2007 21:03
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