Has anybody had their child hang on to a regret for an inordinate amount of time?
Our DD6 keeps giving us the same story every time she gets a chance to wish/ask for something. She had a princess activity book and she decided to cut out a few pictures one day to make a collage out of and she regrets it deeply. She even went through the garbage cans in the house that evening to try to find the left over scraps of paper the cut out pictures came from so she could try to glue the pictures back into the book! It has been over a year now and it is always the thing she talks about when she mentions any regrets. The other day she wrote in her notebook that she wanted Santa to help her forget her worries this Christmas.
When we asked her what she was worrying about, she said over the regret of cutting up her princess book.
DH and I are dumbstruck that she has held onto this incident for so long. It still reduces her to tears to even think about it, forget about talking about it.
Any ideas of what to do about this? Should Santa bring a replacement book this year? (If I could remember which book it was that is)
