Post by kw on Sept 18, 2016 13:05:23 GMT
Was having a chat with my daughter (14) today. Doesn't happen very often, so make the most of it lol. But today I was looking at it through new eyes, having realised I identify with so many traits and characteristics mentioned on these pages (plucking up the courage to see the doc).
Anyway, she's talking away (when she talks, she can talk, and I remember her step dad once asking if she had verbal diarrhoea) about swapping rooms with her brother and pipes up with "I don't know how it happens, but my room is always messy even though I don't do anything". The she wanted to try out something as she was 'well motivated and want to do it it before I CBA*'.
I asked her if she got told to pay attention in school, and stop talking, and she said some times if it was a really boring lesson she'd count how long she could hold her breath for. She's always bored at home, saying there's nothing to do.
She does daft things too - once holding an aerosol on her skin and finding out it burnt her. Or touching the iron as a kid after I'd told her it was hot. There are other things she's told me she's done too, but I' can't remember off the top of my head.
For those with children, does this sound familiar? And would you suggest I take her to see someone? I'm not overly concerned, until now she was just like her mother and normal, as far as I knew, but she's just gone into her first GCSE year and I know she could probably do better at school if she put her mind to it, but so much of school is CBA and boring....
She did ask why I was suddenly asking her about school, but I didn't want to say anything. Any help appreciated thanks
* can't be arsed in case anyone isn't sure. Standard saying for everything it seems
Anyway, she's talking away (when she talks, she can talk, and I remember her step dad once asking if she had verbal diarrhoea) about swapping rooms with her brother and pipes up with "I don't know how it happens, but my room is always messy even though I don't do anything". The she wanted to try out something as she was 'well motivated and want to do it it before I CBA*'.
I asked her if she got told to pay attention in school, and stop talking, and she said some times if it was a really boring lesson she'd count how long she could hold her breath for. She's always bored at home, saying there's nothing to do.
She does daft things too - once holding an aerosol on her skin and finding out it burnt her. Or touching the iron as a kid after I'd told her it was hot. There are other things she's told me she's done too, but I' can't remember off the top of my head.
For those with children, does this sound familiar? And would you suggest I take her to see someone? I'm not overly concerned, until now she was just like her mother and normal, as far as I knew, but she's just gone into her first GCSE year and I know she could probably do better at school if she put her mind to it, but so much of school is CBA and boring....
She did ask why I was suddenly asking her about school, but I didn't want to say anything. Any help appreciated thanks
* can't be arsed in case anyone isn't sure. Standard saying for everything it seems