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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 521981" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>My son is five years old and he wants to roam free, wants to be free to go off and play and explore in the whole of his territory, which is our small French village. Of course he cannot do that without restraint because he is a small child but he gets very upset and angry when I try to prevent him. This all strikes me as very... precocious. J is bright and in some ways quite aware but he is certainly not intellectually precocious or gifted, or anything like that. So I am puzzled, a little, at what is at the origin at this great desire for independence and freedom which isn't typical of a five year old child. It is typical of some Moroccan boys in Morocco, though, even though he himself has never lived like that in Morocco (when staying with my Moroccan ex-husband in Morocco, he is not allowed to disappear without them knowing where he is). </p><p>So I just wonder... DDD mentioned that her ADHD daughter was like that when a young child. Have others of you had experience of it? What is your take on it? He really reminds me of a teenager and it is as if we are already engaged in the teenage battle to be able to go out all the time... Incredible but true <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/sigh.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":sigh:" title="sigh :sigh:" data-shortname=":sigh:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 521981, member: 11227"] My son is five years old and he wants to roam free, wants to be free to go off and play and explore in the whole of his territory, which is our small French village. Of course he cannot do that without restraint because he is a small child but he gets very upset and angry when I try to prevent him. This all strikes me as very... precocious. J is bright and in some ways quite aware but he is certainly not intellectually precocious or gifted, or anything like that. So I am puzzled, a little, at what is at the origin at this great desire for independence and freedom which isn't typical of a five year old child. It is typical of some Moroccan boys in Morocco, though, even though he himself has never lived like that in Morocco (when staying with my Moroccan ex-husband in Morocco, he is not allowed to disappear without them knowing where he is). So I just wonder... DDD mentioned that her ADHD daughter was like that when a young child. Have others of you had experience of it? What is your take on it? He really reminds me of a teenager and it is as if we are already engaged in the teenage battle to be able to go out all the time... Incredible but true :sigh: [/QUOTE]
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