My middle child, a DD who is 6 has been acting really oddly after an accident about 3 and a half weeks ago. We got hit very hard in our car. Myself and my other daughter were injured slightly but this DD and our baby DS seemed to be fine physically.
That said ever since then she has been really badly behaved. Quite tearful, very shouty and doing really horrible things around the house. Breaking things, drawing on walls, pouring nail polish on carpets, cutting up toys, destroyong food in the kitchen. Really it is at epidemic proportion and she cannot be left to co anywhere on her own or she will so something. We are talking about between 2 and 6 serious things a day.....
We have spoken and she cannot tell us why. When we offered are you jealous of DD or DS she sort of agreed, or are you worried about your dad (long story but actually she has remained largely unaffected by it all) she sort of agrees but i don't feel that is what it is really about. She does have some speech and language difficulties but again why wait until now to do this when they have always been there and she is almost up to speed now? I just cannot put it together but just now, laying pregnantly awake in bed I realised that this has been happening since half term when the accident happpened.
To be fair to her for some reason she has not looked well since then, black rings and excema has made a bit of a return. She does have coeliacs but that too is under good control.
So am I mad or could this be about the accident? Just seems that a DD that has always been so mild mannered, who a week or so before this happened received the most incredibly glowing picture from her teacher suddenly descends into this completely dreadul cycle of behaviour.
Yes we have tried to ignore, we have
s, we have talked but just cannt seem to get to the bottom of it.
Any clues?????