Hi, I was so proud of my daughter the other day. She'll be 5 in march and has a severe speech disorder and some other developmental delays, but has always been a really loving, caring child. Anyway, her grandma has a cat who my daughter is terrified of. She has quite a phobia of cats, so we keep the cat away from her. The other day when we were at her Grandmas house, the cat escaped from the bedroom and came in to the living room where we were. Lucy freaked out and was trying to climb up me etc, until I managed to get the cat out and close the door. Then we heard some scratching on the door and Lucy started crying again, so I said "It's not the cat, it's puppy" (what she calls her grandmas dog who she loves) She looked really worried and then sheopened the door to let him in, even though she was scared to do so because of the cat. I was very supprised that she did that, even though she was scared, she wanted to help the dog.
It was really uplifting to think that although she's struggeling developmentally, I think there's an amazing personality forming, which is more important than anything else.
Just wanted to share that with you. [proud mummy]