I've struggled to write a concise subject for this thread as its hard to explain what's going on, but I wonder if anyone has any experience of this or any advice?
DD (37m) gets absolutely panic stricken towards the end of a TV programme or the end of a song on the hifi. For example, towards the end of one of the Julia Donaldson films when she knows its close to the end DD will get very upset and want to turn the TV off. Her concern seems to centre around iPlayer having gone onto the next episode one day when she only wanted to watch one episode.
This has been going on for months and nothing I've tried is resolving the issue. I've tried encouraging her to enjoy the end music and to wait until all the writing has scrolled up. Today, I sat with her and watched a series of nursery rhymes, one after the other. She was absolutely fine while I was there but then when I got up to go to the kitchen (through an open doorway) she became really anxious and asked me to turn it off.
Music more generally isn't a problem. I'm a musician and she'll happily listen to me play instruments. She loves singing herself and sings to herself all the time. We always have the radio on in the car and that is fine, although if we have a CD on, at the end of every single song she'll ask 'is there another song coming on?'. She's fine about it if the answer is 'yes' but just seems to struggle with the transition between songs.
With the TV, if I leave the room she insists on holding the remote so that she can stop the TV if a programme finishes (we only watch iPlayer).
This has all been going on for months, at least since Christmas. She didn't watch much TV at all until over the age of 2 but has been surrounded by music (including on the radio) since birth.
Any suggestions of how to help her with this would be much appreciated. Its frustrating for me knowing that her watching something nice on TV is going to end in tears or me not being able to leave the room if we put music on and I just find it really sad that she is finding something about it so distressing even though I don't really know what it is.