Hi there, I’d love some advice as feeling slightly worried. I have a 5 year who for the majority of the time is a well enough behaved, kind and thoughtful child who understands right from wrong and bar the normal 5-year- old occasional power struggles is pretty good. Last summer when he was as 4.5 he quite suddenly had an interest in other kids bums. It started as a silly game where he and his friends would flash their bums at each other. We thought this was harmless enough until it seemed to happy every week and in different settings. We started gently talking to him about boundaries and privacy and as it kept continuing throughout the summer we bought many books and got firmer with him about it as he just kept doing it and we’d get reports from childcare settings and our friends that he’d been asking other kids to show their bums. Other kids seemed to be doing it too but I feel our son was the instigator. When we’d ask why he kept doing it he said he would get upset and say he didn’t know and it was because he was curious This caused a fair bit of strife as he just didn’t seem to be able to stop doing it. He started school in Sept and I was worried it was going to continue there however it seemed to be the opposite and he mainly forgot about it and when I asked how he felt about it in early autumn he said he wasn’t curious any more. So for most of this past school year we’ve forgotten about it and put it down to a developmental phase. Cut to these past few weeks, we had a couple of his girlfriends over last week and the kids where playing dress up and running wild in the living room, my partner was in the kitchen and overheard our son saying to his friends that they should all show their private parts. The girls were running around half dressed in fancy dress at this stage and he was dressed up as a princess. My husband alerted me straight away and I r put a stop to it and when his friends left we sat him down for a firm enough chat asking him why he was doing that again when he knows it’s not appropriate. He got upset and again said he didn’t know and he was curious. We are about to have a long summer of childcare settings and where he can run a bit free’er and I’m feeling very anxious we are going to have a repeat of last summer. We have started reading the books again to him this week but I’m feeling slightly exasperated that this is happening again and not sure what the trigger is. We’ve made it very clear being curious is completely normal but asking people to show their private parts is totally inappropriate and cannot happen. I’m just worried that it’s not sinking in. I’m also concerned about shaming him and causing problems for him at a later point but also slightly aghast about what to do. He isn’t diagnosed but we have a suspicion he might be slightly ADHD and wonder if part of this is a lack of impulse control. I guess a worried part of me is there is something wrong or he’s been exposed to something which seems very unlikely as he’s never out of our sight. Any advice/ reassurance would be really appreciated. Thanks