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<blockquote data-quote="Rannveig" data-source="post: 275180" data-attributes="member: 5689"><p>I mostly lurk but wanted to weigh in. I totally respect what MWM and SRL have said, and I see the validity of it, but to me much of the behavior you describe sounds like normal kid stuff. I would worry more about an adult who forces a child to stay at the table for hours over some zucchini than I would worry about a child who refuses to eat a new food served by someone other than her parents. And five is very young -- it's not surprising that sometimes Elisabeth doesn't know how to articulate things or to conform to adult notions of how a "big girl" behaves. </p><p></p><p>I sympathize with what it's like to have one's concerns about one's child's development not taken seriously, and I'm sure you're seeing a lot more than what you've been able to put in your post, but I just wanted to offer some encouragement that maybe you're just dealing with a bright, high-strung, strong-willed (in the everyday sense, not as a euphemism for ODD) child. Is there an older person in your life, someone with extensive child-rearing experience, who could spend some time with your daughter and reassure you (or not) that her behavior is in the normal range? When you've never been through a developmental stage before as a parent, what's normal can actually look pretty scary, in my experience. I've felt versions of what you do at various times about all my children. But I think that stage of fighting hard not to be diapered, for example, is actually totally normal.</p><p></p><p>As Elisabeth sounds a bit like my Dagny, whom I've been trying to convince myself will do fine in Kindergarten in the fall, I'll be interested to see what the other moms (and dads?) here say!</p><p></p><p>All the best, Ranny</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rannveig, post: 275180, member: 5689"] I mostly lurk but wanted to weigh in. I totally respect what MWM and SRL have said, and I see the validity of it, but to me much of the behavior you describe sounds like normal kid stuff. I would worry more about an adult who forces a child to stay at the table for hours over some zucchini than I would worry about a child who refuses to eat a new food served by someone other than her parents. And five is very young -- it's not surprising that sometimes Elisabeth doesn't know how to articulate things or to conform to adult notions of how a "big girl" behaves. I sympathize with what it's like to have one's concerns about one's child's development not taken seriously, and I'm sure you're seeing a lot more than what you've been able to put in your post, but I just wanted to offer some encouragement that maybe you're just dealing with a bright, high-strung, strong-willed (in the everyday sense, not as a euphemism for ODD) child. Is there an older person in your life, someone with extensive child-rearing experience, who could spend some time with your daughter and reassure you (or not) that her behavior is in the normal range? When you've never been through a developmental stage before as a parent, what's normal can actually look pretty scary, in my experience. I've felt versions of what you do at various times about all my children. But I think that stage of fighting hard not to be diapered, for example, is actually totally normal. As Elisabeth sounds a bit like my Dagny, whom I've been trying to convince myself will do fine in Kindergarten in the fall, I'll be interested to see what the other moms (and dads?) here say! All the best, Ranny [/QUOTE]
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