I have a 5 year old DS. For a context we are living in a small 2 bedroom flat. No upstairs no downstairs. The last couple of months he has started to ask me to go with him to the toilet. Not even physically just outside the door. First I thought nothing of it,kids being kids but now it’s getting kinda annoying already. The bathroom is literally an arms reach away. If I sit on the sofa I can see the door but he’s refusing to go alone. Even if I’m in the living room or kitchen and literally see him, I have to physically stand outside. There is always light in the hallway, I’ve talked to him and explained again and again that I’m here, just here, I can see you, I’m looking at you but he’s actually screaming and shouting that I need to go with him. No amount of talking and praising him works. And it’s starting to get in my nerves.
He’s NT if that changes something, he’s perfectly fine with toilets at school and anywhere outside. Sometimes if we are are the coffee shop for example he would tell me that he’s gonna go for the wee alone and I can stay here. I never do that of course but he has no problem going into the toilet alone and me waiting outside, but at home he’s literally shouting for me to stand in an exact spot all day. I would understand that if we had a big house and toilet would be far away/upstairs but it’s literally a metre away from where I am.
Is it just kids being kids? What to tell him? Because no amount of talking and explaining is working.