My son, aged four, recently became obsessed with bottoms and willies at school, and for a fe months he and two other little boys would disappear into the toilets and touch each others bottoms. Eventually my son was moved to a different nursery session where everything was okay for a while, but then just befor the holidays he firstly put his finger up another boy's bottom (according to the other boy) and then put his hand down a girl's knickers. The school and one of the parents have alerted social services who are coming to visit me next week, and I have seen my doctor who is referring Son to a child psychologist.
Everyone professional I talk to seems to think that he is showing overtly sexual behaviour and that it can only have come about because he has been abused somewhere down the line. He has had a tough year as his father and I separated, but I am 100% convinced that nothing untoward has happened to him either in my home or his father's. Friends seem to think he is just being a bit overcurious and its fairly natural behaviour that he will grow out of. Has anyone encountered similar behaviour at all?
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Worrying behaviour
sapphire · 07/08/2002 17:07
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