I'm glad she was a able to articulate her thoughts to you. It is hard to figure out our kids sometimes. I love it when they can figure out their issues for themselves.
My son is turning five this year and is going off to kindergarten. I think he is going through some things right now but he is not that great with self reflecting and expressing his thoughts. We kept expecting him to show some kind of emotion on the last week of school but he was happy as a clam and didn't seem to be sad to be leaving his friends. Then yesterday, 2 weeks after school ended, we watched a Japanese movie called, My Neighbor Totoro. It seemed like a relatively mild movie. He does have a history of getting very upset over movies, especially Pixar movies. Well, I'm not sure if you anyone has watched the movie. Anyways, there are dust bunnies (spirits) who live in a house occupied by a family with two daughter. These black spirits live in the attic and fly through the house, sort of odd. Anyways, the family settles in the house and when the family is happy the dust bunnies go away. My son started crying and crying, not loud but big tears. I asked him what was wrong and all he could get out was that missed them and he wanted them to go back to the girls house. A little while into the movie he got very sad again because Totoro kept leaving the girls and he wanted him to stay with them. That very night he saw that I had put some dying sunflowers that had been in vases around the house into the garbage can and he was so upset and wanted me to put them back in a vase in his room. He started to cry and say that he didn't want them to leave because then he wouldn't be able to see them every day. Today he was also very attached and when I left for a few minutes he said that he was sad because he missed me. He has not had any separation issues and usually is fine going to school and does not even like hugs and kisses all that much. So now I am wondering if maybe he has now figured out that he won't be seeing his friends and is missing them. I hope that in a few days he can verbalize his feelings to me.
