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Do I force my difficult child to grow up?
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<blockquote data-quote="wethreepeeps" data-source="post: 54859" data-attributes="member: 3436"><p>My difficult child is almost 9 and still loves Bob the Builder and the Wiggles and his stuffed animals. I haven't taken them away, but I have asked him to leave them at home because he got teased about his Bob backpack at the start of the school year. Emotionally my son is about 5 years old, and I have curtailed some behaviors in public so that he doesn't stand out, like wearing a dozen pairs of mardi gras beads at once, or putting towels or pillow cases on his head so he can pretend he has long hair. He still does them at home, they're normal developmental phases that he's just years behind on, but I don't want him ostracized in public either. He also can't do buttons, and has sensory stuff with "stiff" clothes like jeans, so I get him pull on pants from Land's End that he likes. They're kinda pricey, but they keep him happy, and he doesn't wear through the knees in a couple of months like he does other pants due to the hours and hours he spends crawling on the floor pushing his matchbox cars around.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wethreepeeps, post: 54859, member: 3436"] My difficult child is almost 9 and still loves Bob the Builder and the Wiggles and his stuffed animals. I haven't taken them away, but I have asked him to leave them at home because he got teased about his Bob backpack at the start of the school year. Emotionally my son is about 5 years old, and I have curtailed some behaviors in public so that he doesn't stand out, like wearing a dozen pairs of mardi gras beads at once, or putting towels or pillow cases on his head so he can pretend he has long hair. He still does them at home, they're normal developmental phases that he's just years behind on, but I don't want him ostracized in public either. He also can't do buttons, and has sensory stuff with "stiff" clothes like jeans, so I get him pull on pants from Land's End that he likes. They're kinda pricey, but they keep him happy, and he doesn't wear through the knees in a couple of months like he does other pants due to the hours and hours he spends crawling on the floor pushing his matchbox cars around. [/QUOTE]
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