Hello
I am new here and probably sound like a babbling idiot but here we go...
My 7 yr old dd developed a kind of tic a few weeks ago - lots of blinking, swallowing, making sounds with her mouth and repeating the last sounds of the word she has just said. She has no front teeth at the mo and we put it mainly down to that feeling a bit strange, and we have been ignoring it in the hope that it will go away by itself.
But tonight, before bed, she just got really upset saying that people often don't want to play the same game at school as her, or they change the game without telling her, or they say she can't run fast enough to play with them, or that the game is only for so many people etc.. she even said that as she was trying to explain a game to others they just walked away before she was finished. She has also just told me that a while ago she had noone to play with and spent the playtime crying, so the teacher asked another girl to make it her "duty" to play with her when she was alone; it now turns out that my dd has to do exactly what this other kid says, or she won't play.
Now I am wondering if this is perhaps the cause of said tic! It was very severe when she was telling me. She had a few problems settling into school at the beginning and at one time was thought to have adhd. However, she has grown out of that and is doing really well during lesson time at school. She can be a bit eccentric she loves to read, and watch documentaries so can sometimes be a bit of a know it all, but she is very sweet and kind and would never been mean to anyone. Do you think she is a pushover and that's why this is happening? Am I overreacting and its just kids?
I told her I would speak to her teacher to just keep an eye on things at playtime, and then after a bit of thought went back and told her she was the best kid ever and not to let anyone be mean to her, to stand up for herself and give as good as she gets. But what should I be telling her?
Sorry for the ramble, but if anyone has advice, please let me know.