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Do your kids fixate on morbid and sad things?
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<blockquote data-quote="OpenWindow" data-source="post: 53800" data-attributes="member: 45"><p>My difficult child plays morbid as well (and easy child#2 used to but hasn't in the last couple of years). Same with Linda above, I would play with them and try to add happiness to the play. Instead of a bad ending, we'd make someone the hero who saved the day and everyone lived happily ever after. Now that difficult child is older I talk to him about why he's playing that way and why it's not such a good thing. I try to redirect him with something I think he'll enjoy that's more positive.</p><p></p><p>I have to say that when I was a child I would go to bed every night and imagine a story that was often violent and morbid. I couldn't go to sleep without making something up in my head. A lot of times the stories continued from one night to the next. As I got older (8th, 9th grade) I forced myself to make the stories more positive and happy. I knew I couldn't fall asleep without the story but I didn't like all the unhappiness and violence. I finally grew out of it sometime in high school when I felt like I was in more control of my life.</p><p></p><p>Linda</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OpenWindow, post: 53800, member: 45"] My difficult child plays morbid as well (and easy child#2 used to but hasn't in the last couple of years). Same with Linda above, I would play with them and try to add happiness to the play. Instead of a bad ending, we'd make someone the hero who saved the day and everyone lived happily ever after. Now that difficult child is older I talk to him about why he's playing that way and why it's not such a good thing. I try to redirect him with something I think he'll enjoy that's more positive. I have to say that when I was a child I would go to bed every night and imagine a story that was often violent and morbid. I couldn't go to sleep without making something up in my head. A lot of times the stories continued from one night to the next. As I got older (8th, 9th grade) I forced myself to make the stories more positive and happy. I knew I couldn't fall asleep without the story but I didn't like all the unhappiness and violence. I finally grew out of it sometime in high school when I felt like I was in more control of my life. Linda [/QUOTE]
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