She said her heart was beating really fast

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Dd, 4 watched a silly thing on Kids YouTube today, by accident really, we clicked on Pingu at Christmas and it brought up just a strange, quick counting thing with annoying music (hard to explain!) it was irritating and I switched it off. She kept asking to watch it all day and I said it was silly etc. I was getting her things ready for bed when I heard her watching it with Dh (he had no idea what it was and said yes to her asking to watch Pingu for 5 minutes)
Anyway, we did teeth, pjs, stories etc and she kept saying she couldn’t get the counting & noise of it out of her head. We lay in the dark and I sang to her etc and she was saying her heart was beating really fast and she was scared and couldn’t get it out of her head.
Eventually she fell asleep and obviously won’t be watching it again

Was this a normal reaction? I realise kids imaginations can be wild when little, but she worried me with her not being able to get it out of her head (she says this quite often for some songs) and the fast heartbeat

Anyone?

She'll be fine

She'll be fine, it was just a bit of over stimulation, she'll calm down and it will be forgotten

She’ll be fine, no lasting damage. I think the repetition with the counting has really done it’s job!

It’s really good she could articulate to you exactly how it made her feel though. My daughter (7) has always been like this - really able to verbally express how any given situation has made her feel. It can be initially worrying but actually - how fantastic must it be to be so able and comfortable at expressing how a situation made you feel?

It sounds like you gave her what she needed in terms of winding down from it too.

@PastMyBestBeforeDate @Weneedanexpert So it’s not odd her heart was beating so fast or that she gets songs stuck in her head over and over?

@SemperIdem I just get worried sometimes as her imagination is really vivid-bad dreams etc and some things seem to really affect her, is it just an age thing?

What was her heart beat rate?

Sometimes if I've been doing sudoku, I go to bed and I keep adding numbers up to make 45 or dream about numbers. It's hugely bloody irritating. But it's fine.

@MarshaMelrose i didn’t check it as I assumed she meant it in an anxious, scared way and it quickly passed
Is it normal for a 4 year old to get that overstimulated that she can feel her heart beating fast?

Honestly she sounds so much like my daughter - right down to the super vivid imagination and nightmares. I’d say my daughter is more emotionally intelligent than average for her age based on feedback I’ve had at parents evenings etc.

I just reassure her and absolutely never tell her that she’s being “silly”. She told me when she was about 4 /5 that people telling her she was being silly hurt her feelings!

@SemperIdem No, I don’t say she’s silly but tried to downplay the video clip a bit, but agreed with her it was annoying and it got stuck in my head too!
Crazy that she could sense that it was annoying/scaring her, but that she asked to see it more. She wouldn’t stop talking about it
You don’t think it’s a sign of something else, being so sensitive to these things?

Can you share a link for it ?

Weird things can affect and get inside little ones heads, with their imaginations. I think it's normal to get over stimulated and for her to respond physically to something that made her anxious. Lots of children have nightmares and vivid dreams too, also normal.

Like what? IMO you’re over thinking this - at the very least wait until she wakes up and see if she mentions it again before getting yourself in this much of a tizz about it.

A sign of what?!

I mean this kindly but I can see where she gets it from! Stop worrying and go to bed!

A sign of what? What lines are you thinking along?