Hello,
DD is 4.5 yo and for the last few weeks she developed some weird behaviour eg: before turning he pages, she HAS to count things on the picture in a book hew own way (ie with that certain intonation, certain order),or I have to cuddle her the certain way for a certain number of times before she settles for sleep and she counts the cuddles loudly etc... All these just recently started. Admittedly she is learning to count at the reception class and is interested in numbers and letters etc but i have some doubts still..
A bit background information: She has some upheavals in her life to do with starting reception class in November and at the same time changing to a new childminder who unfortunately turned out to be absolutely useless and uncaring (after the first childminder whom she was with DD for 2 years plus and was really good with DD...), we are going to change the childminder again and DD knows this... Her dad and I have not been getting on well at all for a long time and atmosphere at the house has not been the typical happy families where people do stuff together... her dad and I just tolerate each other having to live in the same place ( he is not leaving until he gathers some cash to enable him to move away which will be sometime this year ) and we do not do outings as a happy family, it is always me and her together and when I am at work (p/t), her dad steps in with school drop offs / childminder dop offs collections etc, etc, it is an arrangement that works... Therefore my problems with her dad is nothing new and it almost is the lifestyle she grew up with...therefore she does not have any better lifestyle to compare with iukwim.
So I am looking at the childminder instability and also the physical demands of starting the new school with long hours here. Her teacher told me she adapted really well and enjoying everything at school, however she started these compulsive very specific ways of doing things and insisting on the way them to be done her way... it worries me.
Anyone experienced similar changes in their children of similar ages? Many thanks...