Last week we had parents evening, overall good but DD (5, reception class) apparently can’t sit still and lacks self regulation skills. Nothing we don’t know, she’s an emotional soul (just like me), we’re working on getting her to take a deep breath and calm down and talk about what’s happened.
Anyways, over the last week or so she’s become very fixated on mum and dad leaving her, like permanently. We’ve talked about when we go to work and she goes to school that it’s temporary and we’ll be back together later that day. Just reassuring her that we ain’t going anywhere anytime soon. She knows there’s a little bit of us inside her heart (DNA right) that means we’re always with her.
Last night, at bedtime she starts again so I reassure her, but then she throws a curveball: a kid in her class has been saying they want her dead, in fact everyone wants her dead and that’s why she won’t see us again. I know they are just little kids saying things they don’t understand, but DD has woken up terrified in the middle of the night that we won’t be there.
The same kid has been seen hitting and biting others, and has already been moved away from DD on the carpet due to slapping her - it was at pick-up and DH/dad saw.
I’m going to speak with teachers today, but this is more than my daughter not self-regulating isn’t it? I am trying to get her to say something along the lines of “those are not kind words, they hurt” but it’s hard for her to remember in the heat of the moment.