Can anyone with a 3 year old tell me if this is a normal phase please?
3 year old daughter, always been really really easy, well behaved, good sleeper, fairly intelligent, loves to learn. She can write a few names (not long turned 3), count to 25, knows all of her colours and has always been very interested in learning, e.g. Doing 50 piece puzzles, asking lots of questions, lots of role play, arty and creative. Literally the model child.
Over the past 2 weeks she has TOTALLY changed. She's waking up a few times in the night for cuddles, almost like she's clingy and wanting attention, which is fine.
Along with this though she seems like she's in a world of her own all day. She's not interested in learning or playing games (she will play alone but can't concentrate to keep a game with someone else going) but she'll ask the same question over and over again, like "where are we going tomorrow?", I tell her the answer and she'll just ask again and again, almost a bit like she's confused and doesn't understand which is totally out of character as she's usually on the ball.
She's also not responding as much as she used to, I'll ask her the same question numerous times and she seems a bit confused. She'll answer "what, pardon" etc and then get fed up of me asking her so will just answer "yes" to shut me up. If I ask her to clarify what I've just said she'll say the answer to a totally different question. E.g. If I'm asking where are your shoes, she will answer "swimming tomorrow" or something totally unrelated.
At preschool they've said she's changed and she's just wandering around aimlessly looking a bit lost?
She had some discharge in her ear a couple of weeks ago but not complained of any pain.
Does she sound like she's coming down with something?
Or tired maybe? She used to nap a few times a week but she dropped this a few weeks ago.
Or do you think it could be a hearing issue? Or just a developmental phase where she's kind of in a world of her own?
I'm so so confused and worried.