Just had a 15m meltdown with son. Half an hour after bedtime, he comes downstairs asking about a toy he had selected for Vinted. It hadn’t sold and it went to the charity shop on Saturday. It’s a green plastic Octonauts vehicle that came off the front of a magazine when he was about five. Absolute hysterics when I told him it had gone to charity and asked him to go back to bed. He misses it, he wants it, will I go back to the shop tomorrow, no he won’t go back to bed until I promise I’ll get it.
Obviously I didn’t promise this as they may not even have it any more. I told him he would have to buy it back with his own money and select something else to take its place. More hysterics.
His room is heaving. It’s impossible to keep tidy as he won’t let anything go. We have every soft toy he’s ever owned still. I can’t let this continue.
I have ADHD and am not tidy. DH thinks DS clearly has it too but if he does he doesn’t have a classic boys presentation, far more like me. School do not think he has it. Teacher looked at me as though I were bonkers when I asked.
How has anyone else dealt with this?