My Dd has always had a short attention span. She is very very close to her older brother - there is just 12months between them and they have been treated almost like twins in away. But Ds has just started school and is loving his new found independance from her, and she is missing him terribly. Her behalviour has suddenly gone haywire. She flits from one thing to the next to the next within seconds. They even got concerned about it at pre-school and did an assessment on her. Within 10 minutes of being followed around she had done, painting, dressing up, jigsaws, stories, played in the telephone box and shop and gone back to the messy room again to play with the sand and water experiment thingy and not really done anything properly. One night last week she started crying going to bed, covered her ears and said 'mummy, I can't turn my listening skills off'!!! I wasn't quite sure how to respond. Felt so sorry for her! She wanders around the house in the afternoons before picking DS up saying - 'I want Harry' or 'wheres my darling Harry' Everything she does, like pictures or making in that time - its always for Harry. Is the lack of concentration or ablilty to stick with one thing for longer than a minute simply her missing her brother - seperation anxiety or something else? I feel all at sea. She is 3.5 and the other thing is still wearing a nappy at night. They are always SO full in the morning I just haven't attempted it. Better go. Got to go pick her up from preschool!