Just checking to see if anyone has had a similar experience with their kid... my DS just turned 4 in April. As a baby/toddler, he was very observant, never a great sleeper but was pretty easy going. Never showed any separation anxiety, loved seeing new things, very easy to take out in public. He never showed any sensitivity to noises, textures, any of that sort of thing. I started posting he
In the past month, he's become a bit of a mess emotionally. Often when I leave the house for a quick errand, he'll cry and scream that he's going to miss me and please don't go. One day we went to a splash pad and he spent 45 minutes sitting on my lap instead of playing with his buddies because he 'didn't expect that there would be a playground AND a splash pad' (his explanation). He gets frustrated with his toys much more easily and just seems to have 'bad days' a lot more often. He's had a few incidents of kicking and hitting and just losing his temper.
I'm feeling very guilty because a possible catalyst for all of this is a weekend when my husband left town for a guys weekend and I wasn't feeling well while doing the child-care on my own. He had a meltdown during bath/bedtime and I lost my temper and yelled at him and just didn't handle it well. Now I'm scared that I somehow traumatized him, or I'm wondering if this is some sort of weird developmental thing. Anyone have a similar experience or insight?
