only one not wet

bumpuser511563 · May 2013

DS's school had water day today. DS has PDD-NOS.

I was saddened that he did not want to go out and get wet. All he wanted to do was blow bubbles.

I convinced him to go to one water table and I wet him a little with a cup. He was so mad. We then went back to the wall where we were blowing bubbles.

I tried again to get him to go to a different water table where I grabbed a ketchup bottle filled with water. I squirted him down to wet him so he can cool off. He again was mad and was whining.

I just don't get it. He likes to splash around when I bathe him and I tell him to stop and not make a mess on the bathroom floor. This is the one time he could splash around.

He is still behind in his language compared to the other kids in his class. Even the other kids were talking to me! As DS gets older the delays are much more noticible(sp?). How much more speech do I need to add for him to catch up?

TIA to hear me vent.

aiche Umm Ayoub · May 2013

maybe he is slow to warm up to new actives , I have 2 toddlers ages 3 1/2 and 2 1/2 years old my daughter loves to run in water but my son takes a while to warm up and if you push him or rush him he won't play in the water , that being said at home where he knows everyone no one is allow to take a bath without him in the tub he loves baths maybe it was the water temperature children at this age are really quite picky . I wouldn't worry about the speech just encourage him to talk with my son I ask him if he wants juice or milk and then I wait for him to answer he will answer me when we're at home in public he is super quite and grunts alot but around people he knows he will talk . feel free to vent away hope my advice helps

Shayna0182 · May 2013

Today was ds's water day at preschool. Since it has rained off and on all day, I doubt they still had it. Your ds's reaction sounds a lot like how mine would react.

This past weekend we walked over to the park, and a lot of kids were wading and splashing in the creek. Ds completely ignored it, and had a meltdown when we tried to get him to leave an air conditioner next to a barn alone. He has a great time in the bathtub, and eventually he had fun in the creek, but it took me getting in there with him.

Feel free to vent. Everything you just described with your ds sounds exactly like mine.

SantoriniSteph · May 2013

My DS is the opposite, loves the water table and hates the bath tub. It has been this way for 1 1/2 years, I stopped trying to understand it.

funchicken · May 2013

I hear you. My older DD is really sensitive to water. She would do a splash day if she was in her bathing suit, but not if she was wearing regular clothes. Last year, she had to change her outfit almost every single day at school because she would get the front of her dress wet when she washed her hands.

We spent the entire summer before 3 year old preschool working on hand-washing because she was so averse to the feeling of running her hands under water that she would almost vomit. It was definitely worse if the water was really cold.

The good news is, it has gotten much, much better. We've been working with an OT since August, and it's done wonders.

Hang in there!

macchiatto · May 2013

I hear you, too. Funnily enough, today was basically water day at my boys' preschool too (sprinklers/hose at their last-day picnic party) and while my NT twin loved it and got completely soaked over and over, his brother (who has delays, SPD, etc.) had fun but would kind of skirt around the edge of the spray radius and barely got wet.

pastalady · May 2013

I am kind of with auntie on this. I would be mad if you sprayed me with water when you knew I didn't enjoy it lol! It's hard but there comes a point when you realize your kid doesn't like what typical kids like. It doesn't mean you stop trying to expand on their comfort zones, etc. the scenario you described would have resulted in a 3 hour meltdown for us.

finsup · May 2013

We have Water day here too.

Auntie - its basically a field day type day where the kids all go outside and do water activities. Water tables, water slides, sprinklers, slip and slides etc. I've only ever seen this in warmer weather states, I'm in TX. When we lived up in CT it was a standard field day with your standard field day games. They don't have field day down here like you would know, so water day is like a field day equivalent.

Ours is actually tomorrow. My DS does ok with it though for the most part, except for the big blow up water slides he'll refuse those, but the sprinklers and water tables he'll like, so I think he'll have fun.

malcivar · May 2013

We don't have water day - or at least it hasn't happened yet but Chris does have a water table at home and it took a while for him to play with it. My dad then opted for a kiddie pool since he loves baths so much. He took to that right away and after a while of pool play, started playing with the water table. For him, it was like he needed a bridge to associate water play with something outside of the bathtub.

Chris school had fruit kebab day where the kids would be introduced to different fruits and make fruit kebabs. I wasn't able to attend but my mom went - let's just say Chris LOOOOOOVES fruit - can't get enough of it. So this should've been a great activity right? Nope - my mom says he wanted no part of the fruit, even bananas which are his favourite. Go figure.

bumpuser511563 · May 2013

Thanks to you all!

I did hug DS after I squirted him. We threw a beach ball back and forth and he drew a bunch of lines on the side walk with chalk.

I had fun interacting with the other boys in his class. Some of their parents couldn't come because they probably had to work.

The teacher let the whole class play on the playground to dry up and DS wanted me to push him on the swing. I was like the only parent out there with DS and the kids. I guess I was the only working mom out of the class that was in participation for some quality time.

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