Wow, life has been super busy around our house! Keeping up with everything is a chore but all well worth it when I see those little faces smiling back at me!
I am in the process of starting a daisy scout troop and our first meeting is THIS monday! YIKES. I am playing clean the house, lesson plan, take training classes and everything else! I am just so thankful for coffee!
Anyways, I have also been struggling with major anxiety issues with my 6 year old. Unfortunately, it seems to be a lot more then separation anxiety. She has hit the point of freaking out when we take her to school. She goes in a full panic. She will scream VERY loud and even try to make herself puke so that she would get sent home. My daughter has always been well above her class academically and has scored very high on her benchmark testing. She LOVED school up until recently. She tracked back to school Monday and things are AWFUL. Each day getting worse. Durning break, we had a lot happen including the death of a family friend. She has also been asking a lot about the risks that police officer. She is so scared something is going to happen to daddy. I really think that she is putting two and two together. There is a lot of history of anxiety in my family including myself. So I am scared that this really is more then we originally thought. So come monday, we plan on getting her help. Her school counselor has been out all week but she will be back Monday. We are also going to make an appointment with her pediatrician to get a referral to a therapist. I should also add, she is not only having these anxiety attacks when we drop her off, it is also during the day. Her teacher has said that she is quite popular and has never seen anyone pick on her. She has never been in trouble and we just have no clue what is causing this. We hope to get some answers.
Anyways, I need to go clean the house up and then sneak off to bed.
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Becks, you have a full plate. You are a loving and careful mom. I feel like everything you are doing is right on. Your daughter is at an age where things start to come into focus. She has been through a lot lately and it seems that seeing the school psych. and talking to the pediatrician would be right on. Good luck! Bobbie
Maybe it is purely psychological which the therapist should be able to determine, but just to rule it out, get her vitamin D level tested. Read my blog for more info and this New England Journal of Medicine article. http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/357/3/266. 70% of US children are deficient. Also, I was molested by a neighbor of my grandparents from ages 3-11, yet I never acted out as a young child. I didn't start to act out till I was 12. That was the year that we moved from a very sunny location and where we had a pool to a cold, foggy location and no pool. I was inside all the time or in the fog, and I became a reclusive child and only wanted to stay home. Maybe I was D deficient then due to the change in location where I was no longer getting tons of vit D every day. Just please get her tested. It's easy to do and could be one of the pieces to the puzzle. Take care.
We had the same thing with my son. His started in Kindergarden and he still has episodes every now and then. I started off meeting him for lunch each day (it was a pain) and then slowly we reduced it until it was once a week. I did this for a year and a half, it was very difficult. But I needed a happy child. The other thing I did was send him to school with a picture that he could keep in his pocket. In the beginning he looked at it alot. However, after a few days I started sending little notes too. He would find them in his backpack or in his lunch. When he would read them he would feel better. As the weeks went on he looked at the picture less and less until he didn't need it anymore. Of course, any long vacation or illness and we would start the process over again. His teacher was really accepting of the fact that he needed me and on days he was really upset, she would help him write me a note. There were a few times he even called home just to talk for a few minutes. I think the main thing is to work with the teacher and see what you can agree on and what works for you.
Good luck.
I am really glad you are getting her the help she needs now and not putting things off.I suffer from anxiety/panic attacks and at my age it she scarrey for me.I can't imagine a child going through it.It's usually brought on by an event that happens in your life.
i like the idea momof4mi had with the picture and notes. i didn't have that problem with my kids, so sorry can't help you. but i was a girl scout leader for 10 yrs. and let me tell you that was a great 10 yrs. hope you can stick with it and good luck. de ann
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