Auntie

Rink08

DS1, who has the police obsession, said to us last night that he needs "to get police out of his head so he can be a normal person". He was upset when he said it and wouldn't answer when we asked him why he thought that.

This morning he mentioned that his friend at school told him that he's weird because he talks about police too much and that if he keeps talking about them that he won't be his friend anymore. So when he was getting dressed, he didn't want to wear his regular, what he identifies as, "police" clothes because he "wants to be normal". When we were leaving, I noticed that he still had his police badge on but had put it on the top of his pants instead of on his pocket where he usually wears it.

Thoughts?

Rink08

Thank you. Once again, you are right. It is a great step! I think that I was just blindsided by it because he's gone from being blissfully unaware of what the other children think to saying this. He recently started behavioral therapy and we have been seeing quite a few changes in him.

With the badge, we plan to not allow it at the beginning of next school year and stick with it. He differentiates between kindergarten and the other grades by arguing that k is not a grade because it does not have the word "grade" in it therefore it is not really school. We've been slowly having him not take certain items to school since he started the new therapy but so far the badge has been the least distracting. He was carrying around little notebooks, or scraps of paper when we took those away, and "writing people tickets" for things that he didn't think that they should be doing.