I am starting to get worried about DS (6) and his obvious distress about people outside of his family having seen him naked as a baby. We were recently looking through some baby photos of him and in some he was naked. He got very distressed and started crying about the fact we had taken a photo of him without a nappy. I deleted them all. We also had tears this evening at bedtime when he realised that when he was at nursery, the staff had changed his nappy and therefore seen him.
I am worried that I have messed him up by telling him previously (around a year ago) that we don't show our private parts to people outside the family. It has all suddenly hit him now. He is not shy around me, and mostly not shy around DH or my mother.
I have noticed he is also getting anxious and about other things too. He feels that he has to be very honest with me about everything and gets stressed if, for example, he can't remember exactly how many times he used a bad word -this can go on for several days and then pop up again a week or so later. We previously told him Father Christmas was watching him so that he would behave and he seems to have really taken this to heart. DH is relatively religious and made some flippant comment about God always watching us and he's worried about that too. I am trying to back track on these now, but I'm not sure that he's convinced.
He also got very upset because he had a dream that he had more than one mum and confessed he didn't want me in it. I explained that I knew he loved me and that he can't control his dreams.
I could really do with some advice on what I'm doing wrong here. Or am I overreacting, will he grow out of it?
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to be worried about DS's fear of nudity and general anxiety
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jellybeannie · 20/05/2013 22:50
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