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Reverting....11y/o acting like 5y/o
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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 268958" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>It has been our experience that Dude has NEVER acted his age. Lots of things happened in his life to stunt his emotional growth. At best, if he was literally 16 years of age he exhibited behaviors you would find annoying but almost acceptable in a 12 year old. </p><p> </p><p>Our therapist told us that a lot of times with kids in therapy you strike a nerve. Sometimes it takes a while for the chemical properties in the brain to boomerang around to what was uncovered in therapy - but a lot of time in therapy we were told it would get worse before it got better - and the out of age appropriate play was his brains way of trying to right the wrongs. His internal brain mapping may be trying to fix itself. </p><p> </p><p>It is not a permanent phase - but it's just a phase. It is also nearly impossible to tell exactly WHAT the brain is doing in a child like ours, but we were encouraged to let it ride and ignore the baby talk, treat the tantrums like you would any other bad behavior, when he crawled into bed with me? Find out what makes him uncomfortable about his room and then set a time limit on him staying - then escort him back to his bed. (Mostly because I was going through really stressful therapy too and needed my sleep and Dude was very restless then). I ended up painting a guardian dog at the door way to his room and we let our dog sleep with him. It helped a lot. ANd if he pulls it in school - just let the teacher know that you are working through some pretty tough issues in therapy and she may see some odd age inappropriate behaviors and if she did - to let you know. </p><p> </p><p>Really - what you're seeing is annoying because your eyes SEE an 11 year old and his brain is momentarily (for whatever reason) stuck at his 5-6 years stage. I would talk to your therapist about it...and see what their advice is since they know your son personally.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 268958, member: 4964"] It has been our experience that Dude has NEVER acted his age. Lots of things happened in his life to stunt his emotional growth. At best, if he was literally 16 years of age he exhibited behaviors you would find annoying but almost acceptable in a 12 year old. Our therapist told us that a lot of times with kids in therapy you strike a nerve. Sometimes it takes a while for the chemical properties in the brain to boomerang around to what was uncovered in therapy - but a lot of time in therapy we were told it would get worse before it got better - and the out of age appropriate play was his brains way of trying to right the wrongs. His internal brain mapping may be trying to fix itself. It is not a permanent phase - but it's just a phase. It is also nearly impossible to tell exactly WHAT the brain is doing in a child like ours, but we were encouraged to let it ride and ignore the baby talk, treat the tantrums like you would any other bad behavior, when he crawled into bed with me? Find out what makes him uncomfortable about his room and then set a time limit on him staying - then escort him back to his bed. (Mostly because I was going through really stressful therapy too and needed my sleep and Dude was very restless then). I ended up painting a guardian dog at the door way to his room and we let our dog sleep with him. It helped a lot. ANd if he pulls it in school - just let the teacher know that you are working through some pretty tough issues in therapy and she may see some odd age inappropriate behaviors and if she did - to let you know. Really - what you're seeing is annoying because your eyes SEE an 11 year old and his brain is momentarily (for whatever reason) stuck at his 5-6 years stage. I would talk to your therapist about it...and see what their advice is since they know your son personally. [/QUOTE]
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