My (I thought) very happy, confident and outgoing 5 year old DS has started to rip his hair out, in clumps and is eating it!! It started about 2 weeks ago and to start with I sort of explained it was not a good thing to do, fished the hair out of his mouth and that was it. Perhaps I should have been a lot firmer, but I didn't want to draw too much attention to it for fear of making it worse IYSWIM.
It's getting to the stage where he is getting a small bald patch and I'm putting him in the corner or taking away his Tablet whenever I catch him doing it...but it is not going in! I have asked him way and he says he doesn't know, he isn't worried about anything, nothing big has happened in our house that has disturbed or upset him, so what is this? and what on earth can I do?
Anyone any experience? Is this phase? Do I continue to punish or ignore?
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What is this about?! Not sure at all how to deal with this one!
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serendippity · 24/07/2014 11:11
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