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I’m feeling really overwhelmed and wondering if anyone has experienced something similar.
My daughter is 3½.

She’s always been very curious and loves chatting. We can have proper conversations together, she asks thoughtful questions, has an excellent memory, and she hasn’t had any developmental delays. She became a big sister about 3 months ago, and over the last 2 months her behaviour has become incredibly difficult. I don’t know if it’s related or just a coincidence.

The biggest change has been the **anger and aggression**.

For example, today I took her on a little coffee date. I bought her a mini milk drink with marshmallows, got out a colouring set and paper, and we were having a nice time. She asked me to help her colour, but I was rocking the pram and drinking my coffee, so I said, “Mum can’t right now.”
She instantly got angry, threw all the crayons on the ground, and when I calmly asked her to pick them up, she started scratching the leather couch and scribbling on it in rage.

Tonight her dad asked her at least five times not to spray him or his food with her water spray bottle. She just kept trying. We took it away, and she completely lost it. She became aggressive, was kicking, trying to hurt us, and even deliberately slammed the pantry door into her dad while he was putting food away.

Another example is that she came into my room saying, “Baba.” I jokingly replied, “I’m Baba,” thinking it might make her laugh. Instead, she instantly screamed and became furious. I know she clearly didn’t find it funny, and I won’t do that again, but it shocked me how something so small led to such an explosive reaction.

Even when we’re trying to do something fun, she can become extremely frustrated. Her dad was making paper planes with her, and because he folded one differently to how she wanted, she didn’t try to explain or show him. She immediately started screaming because it wasn’t “right.”
When she’s really angry, she seems to need to physically express it. She’ll slam her body into the couch, scratch at the couch, throw whatever is nearby, headbutt something, or sometimes even try to scratch her own face. It’s not repetitive or something she does all the time—it only seems to happen when she’s completely overwhelmed with anger.

What’s confusing is that she’s **not like this at kinder or when she’s being babysat**. This behaviour is mainly happening at home and has become much worse over the last couple of months, although she’s always been a child who feels things very deeply.
I’m thinking about starting parent-child play therapy because I like the idea of someone observing us together and helping me better understand what’s driving these behaviours and how to respond.
I’m genuinely starting to worry there’s an underlying reason for the aggression because it feels so extreme compared to other children her age.
Has anyone else had a 3½-year-old like this? Was it a phase, or did you end up finding there was something else contributing? What actually helped?

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I’m feeling really overwhelmed and wondering if anyone has experienced something similar.
My daughter is 3½.

She’s always been very curious and loves chatting. We can have proper conversations together, she asks thoughtful questions, has an excellent memory, and she hasn’t had any developmental delays. She became a big sister about 3 months ago, and over the last 2 months her behaviour has become incredibly difficult. I don’t know if it’s related or just a coincidence.

The biggest change has been the anger and aggression.

For example, today I took her on a little coffee date. I bought her a mini milk drink with marshmallows, got out a colouring set and paper, and we were having a nice time. She asked me to help her colour, but I was rocking the pram and drinking my coffee, so I said, “Mum can’t right now.”
She instantly got angry, threw all the crayons on the ground, and when I calmly asked her to pick them up, she started scratching the leather couch and scribbling on it in rage.

Tonight her dad asked her at least five times not to spray him or his food with her water spray bottle. She just kept trying. We took it away, and she completely lost it. She became aggressive, was kicking, trying to hurt us, and even deliberately slammed the pantry door into her dad while he was putting food away.

Another example is that she came into my room saying, “Baba.” I jokingly replied, “I’m Baba,” thinking it might make her laugh. Instead, she instantly screamed and became furious. I know she clearly didn’t find it funny, and I won’t do that again, but it shocked me how something so small led to such an explosive reaction.

Even when we’re trying to do something fun, she can become extremely frustrated. Her dad was making paper planes with her, and because he folded one differently to how she wanted, she didn’t try to explain or show him. She immediately started screaming because it wasn’t “right.”
When she’s really angry, she seems to need to physically express it. She’ll slam her body into the couch, scratch at the couch, throw whatever is nearby, headbutt something, or sometimes even try to scratch her own face. It’s not repetitive or something she does all the time—it only seems to happen when she’s completely overwhelmed with anger.

What’s confusing is that she’s not like this at kinder or when she’s being babysat. This behaviour is mainly happening at home and has become much worse over the last couple of months, although she’s always been a child who feels things very deeply.
I’m thinking about starting parent-child play therapy because I like the idea of someone observing us together and helping me better understand what’s driving these behaviours and how to respond.
I’m genuinely starting to worry there’s an underlying reason for the aggression because it feels so extreme compared to other children her age.
Has anyone else had a 3½-year-old like this? Was it a phase, or did you end up finding there was something else contributing? What actually helped?

If your child lost words and anything they had learnt from regressive autism.

Did you notice ANY or do any autistic traits show before they regress?

Or did they look NT until the day the regressed?

I’ll struggle to reply to you so thank you if you take the time to comment

My daughter saw an ENT the other week for me worried about large. I annoyed as she is complaining that she is tired a lot. She had some blood work done and her iron was low but her ferritin was high. Her ferritin could have been temporarily raised because she had a virus which does increase ferritin temporarily but it’s not 100% thing so.

I really wanted to rule out whether she had large adenoids or not and this ENT just gave me a spray of steroid stuff and said use this for six weeks and if she still snores after this then come back and we’ll investigate

To be honest, I don’t want to have to give her steroid spray for six weeks straight. I just want someone to tell me whether her adenoids are large or not. They the bloody appointment cost me over $200 as well.

Has your kid ever had such crazy handful in her mouth that I didn’t look typical?
My daughter has been exposed to handful her mouth at kinder last week. She’s also had several viruses over the last few weeks.
She started coming out in a fever at the start of the week the next day her fever settled but she started getting a rash on her arms and legs. When I took her to the doctor she said she thought my daughter had strep throat and that her rash did not look like Scarlet fever.
At this point, I didn’t know about the spread at her kinder when I got home I got an email saying there was a spread and I looked at her rash and it was getting more blistery around her legs

It’s now spread onto her face and bum

It looks like something called Eczema Coxacium

I can’t really share photos of my daughter on here but if you google this- does your child’s hand foot and mouth look more like this severe type than the typical hand and feet presentation?

My daughter looks terrible poor thing

Is this consistent with 3 1/2 year-old behaviour or something? I need to keep an eye on?

I’d love some input from early childhood educators or anyone experienced with child development.

This all started because I emailed my daughter’s kinder teachers after hearing that there had been hitting or physical conflicts occurring most weeks. I wasn’t necessarily worried about the hitting itself, as I know disagreements and conflicts are common at this age, but I wanted some clarity around whether my daughter was usually initiating these incidents or whether they were occurring during disagreements with other children. I was hoping to better understand what was happening so I could help her work through any feelings and challenges at home as well.

In response, her teachers explained that she sometimes takes a toy another child is still using, seemingly not realising they were actively playing with it. They also mentioned that she often prefers spending time with educators rather than joining group play with other children.

I completely understand that disagreements over toys are common at this age, so I’m not concerned about the toy-taking by itself. I’m more trying to understand whether these things could suggest difficulty reading social situations or whether they’re still well within the typical range.

What confuses me is that outside of kinder, I often see the opposite. If a child approaches her at the park and wants to play, she’ll usually join in. If she sees children playing somewhere like gymnastics or an indoor play centre, she’ll often run straight over and join them.

She’s generally very talkative and social. Prior to this feedback, most of what we’d heard from educators was that she talks a lot and can sometimes interrupt. She doesn’t seem to avoid people and is often happy to approach others.

On the other hand, she can be quite sensitive socially. For example, if she asks another child a question and they don’t answer, she can become upset and sometimes withdraw from the interaction.

For a bit of background, she never attended childcare before starting kinder at 3. She was an only child until recently becoming a big sister. She has cousins and social opportunities, but she has also been the youngest in the family and is probably quite used to adults and older children accommodating her preferences.

She is also one of the younger children in her 3–4-year-old class, with many of the other children being closer to 4 years old.

Part of why I’m asking is that there have been some other things over time that have made me wonder about her development more broadly. She’s an extremely emotional child, can be very sensitive, and shows some anxious traits. I’m not looking for a diagnosis online, but I am trying to work out what falls within the range of typical development and what might be worth exploring further.

Would these observations raise any concerns for you, or do they sound fairly typical for a 3.5-year-old who is adjusting to a larger peer environment? Would this be enough for you to suggest a developmental assessment, or would you simply continue to monitor and support her social development?

Is this consistent with 3 1/2 year-old behaviour or something? I need to keep an eye on?

I’d love some input from early childhood educators or anyone experienced with child development.

This all started because I emailed my daughter’s kinder teachers after hearing that there had been hitting or physical conflicts occurring most weeks. I wasn’t necessarily worried about the hitting itself, as I know disagreements and conflicts are common at this age, but I wanted some clarity around whether my daughter was usually initiating these incidents or whether they were occurring during disagreements with other children. I was hoping to better understand what was happening so I could help her work through any feelings and challenges at home as well.

In response, her teachers explained that she sometimes takes a toy another child is still using, seemingly not realising they were actively playing with it. They also mentioned that she often prefers spending time with educators rather than joining group play with other children.

I completely understand that disagreements over toys are common at this age, so I’m not concerned about the toy-taking by itself. I’m more trying to understand whether these things could suggest difficulty reading social situations or whether they’re still well within the typical range.

What confuses me is that outside of kinder, I often see the opposite. If a child approaches her at the park and wants to play, she’ll usually join in. If she sees children playing somewhere like gymnastics or an indoor play centre, she’ll often run straight over and join them.

She’s generally very talkative and social. Prior to this feedback, most of what we’d heard from educators was that she talks a lot and can sometimes interrupt. She doesn’t seem to avoid people and is often happy to approach others.

On the other hand, she can be quite sensitive socially. For example, if she asks another child a question and they don’t answer, she can become upset and sometimes withdraw from the interaction.

For a bit of background, she never attended childcare before starting kinder at 3. She was an only child until recently becoming a big sister. She has cousins and social opportunities, but she has also been the youngest in the family and is probably quite used to adults and older children accommodating her preferences.

She is also one of the younger children in her 3–4-year-old class, with many of the other children being closer to 4 years old.

Part of why I’m asking is that there have been some other things over time that have made me wonder about her development more broadly. She’s an extremely emotional child, can be very sensitive, and shows some anxious traits. I’m not looking for a diagnosis online, but I am trying to work out what falls within the range of typical development and what might be worth exploring further.

Would these observations raise any concerns for you, or do they sound fairly typical for a 3.5-year-old who is adjusting to a larger peer environment? Would this be enough for you to suggest a developmental assessment, or would you simply continue to monitor and support her social development?

I’d love some input from early childhood educators or anyone experienced with child development.

This all started because I emailed my daughter’s kinder teachers after hearing that there had been hitting or physical conflicts occurring most weeks. I wasn’t necessarily worried about the hitting itself, as I know disagreements and conflicts are common at this age, but I wanted some clarity around whether my daughter was usually initiating these incidents or whether they were occurring during disagreements with other children. I was hoping to better understand what was happening so I could help her work through any feelings and challenges at home as well.

In response, her teachers explained that she sometimes takes a toy another child is still using, seemingly not realising they were actively playing with it. They also mentioned that she often prefers spending time with educators rather than joining group play with other children.

I completely understand that disagreements over toys are common at this age, so I’m not concerned about the toy-taking by itself. I’m more trying to understand whether these things could suggest difficulty reading social situations or whether they’re still well within the typical range.

What confuses me is that outside of kinder, I often see the opposite. If a child approaches her at the park and wants to play, she’ll usually join in. If she sees children playing somewhere like gymnastics or an indoor play centre, she’ll often run straight over and join them.

She’s generally very talkative and social. Prior to this feedback, most of what we’d heard from educators was that she talks a lot and can sometimes interrupt. She doesn’t seem to avoid people and is often happy to approach others.

On the other hand, she can be quite sensitive socially. For example, if she asks another child a question and they don’t answer, she can become upset and sometimes withdraw from the interaction.

For a bit of background, she never attended childcare before starting kinder at 3. She was an only child until recently becoming a big sister. She has cousins and social opportunities, but she has also been the youngest in the family and is probably quite used to adults and older children accommodating her preferences.

She is also one of the younger children in her 3–4-year-old class, with many of the other children being closer to 4 years old.

Part of why I’m asking is that there have been some other things over time that have made me wonder about her development more broadly. She’s an extremely emotional child, can be very sensitive, and shows some anxious traits. I’m not looking for a diagnosis online, but I am trying to work out what falls within the range of typical development and what might be worth exploring further.

Would these observations raise any concerns for you, or do they sound fairly typical for a 3.5-year-old who is adjusting to a larger peer environment? Would this be enough for you to suggest a developmental assessment, or would you simply continue to monitor and support her social development?

I’d love some input from early childhood educators or anyone experienced with child development.

This all started because I emailed my daughter’s kinder teachers after hearing that there had been hitting or physical conflicts occurring most weeks. I wasn’t necessarily worried about the hitting itself, as I know disagreements and conflicts are common at this age, but I wanted some clarity around whether my daughter was usually initiating these incidents or whether they were occurring during disagreements with other children. I was hoping to better understand what was happening so I could help her work through any feelings and challenges at home as well.

In response, her teachers explained that she sometimes takes a toy another child is still using, seemingly not realising they were actively playing with it. They also mentioned that she often prefers spending time with educators rather than joining group play with other children.

I completely understand that disagreements over toys are common at this age, so I’m not concerned about the toy-taking by itself. I’m more trying to understand whether these things could suggest difficulty reading social situations or whether they’re still well within the typical range.

What confuses me is that outside of kinder, I often see the opposite. If a child approaches her at the park and wants to play, she’ll usually join in. If she sees children playing somewhere like gymnastics or an indoor play centre, she’ll often run straight over and join them.

She’s generally very talkative and social. Prior to this feedback, most of what we’d heard from educators was that she talks a lot and can sometimes interrupt. She doesn’t seem to avoid people and is often happy to approach others.

On the other hand, she can be quite sensitive socially. For example, if she asks another child a question and they don’t answer, she can become upset and sometimes withdraw from the interaction.

For a bit of background, she never attended childcare before starting kinder at 3. She was an only child until recently becoming a big sister. She has cousins and social opportunities, but she has also been the youngest in the family and is probably quite used to adults and older children accommodating her preferences.

She is also one of the younger children in her 3–4-year-old class, with many of the other children being closer to 4 years old.

Part of why I’m asking is that there have been some other things over time that have made me wonder about her development more broadly. She’s an extremely emotional child, can be very sensitive, and shows some anxious traits. I’m not looking for a diagnosis online, but I am trying to work out what falls within the range of typical development and what might be worth exploring further.

Would these observations raise any concerns for you, or do they sound fairly typical for a 3.5-year-old who is adjusting to a larger peer environment? Would this be enough for you to suggest a developmental assessment, or would you simply continue to monitor and support her social development?

Looking for a great Psychgoist who works with pre school aged kids

Particularly girls as they are typically harder to diagnose

Based on north west suburbs

My three-year-old’s world has obviously been thrown up upside down since her baby brother was brought into 11 weeks ago

I’m involving her and there as much stuff as I can during the day

Her sleep has also gone pretty backwards. It’s not because of the baby waking up.

Because she looks pretty tired and even her kindergarten which she attends twice twice a week has reported she looks tired during the day. I got her a blood test and her iron was extremely low.
She currently has a virus so we’re gonna start an iron supplement when her virus goes. The doctor said to wait.

Her behaviour lately is so aggressive no matter what I’d say or do it’s not working. I will put her in the corner without an argument or I will firmly say you do not hit me.

Tonight as I was at my parents house and she was playing with her cousins I said she had to go. She didn’t listen. I gave her a a bit and then repeated so I didn’t listen so I just didn’t give her the option. I sat her down and put her socks on she tried to hit me in front of everyone. Her dad took her into a different room to help her calm down but the way she acted I’ve never seen before. She was like a animal who had gone aggressive. She was literally trying to scratch his face to pieces. He had to hold her to protect himself. If he let go she would’ve tried to attack him.

What I found strange was my brother-in-law who she loves intervened by saying let’s go look at something and she went straight to him and as soon as he showed her something funny she just started laughing.

She just went from completely went into the other. It was like extreeem anger to extreme having a fun time.
No sadness or remorse.

She’s very intelligent and speaks well and hasn’t had no behaviour. Issues reported from kindergarten. Usually she’s quite good when she’s with the grandparents and her behaviour plays up with me and her dad are around.

But lately it’s just been so much anger and so much dysregulation and so hard to calm her down. I wonder if there’s something else going on.

I’m struggling mentally. I’m not very emotionally intelligent and when these things happen, I struggled to calm her down without getting upset myself.

I’m starting therapy in a couple of weeks to learn how to not get triggered by her emotions but I’m also considering a child psychologist for my daughter or play therapy.

Hey/hello

My baby boy is adorable.

He makes eye contact and smiles and maybe he might also laugh.

I would say his met the social cue stuff for sure but it’s very much I need to work for it.

If his laying on his back he is super social, in his bouncer he stares at me and is either serious or smile but he isn’t super social in terms of when he wakes up his smiley, when I put him on my legs he looked to the left or right of my shoulders.

When I
Hold him the only way to he eye contact is cupping his head in my palms and laying him forward.

I remember my daughter at this age much more smiley in the mornings and when I held her in my legs with my knees up she would be really cooing.

Where he has a side preference. Both left and right rather than straght into our faces.

But it’s not like his not social but it’s almost something I have to work for?

Is this 3 year old behaviour something to talk to a paediatrician about?

Is this 3 year old behaviour something to talk to a paediatrician about?

The reason I’m asking is because to see a developmental pead in Australia is sooo difficult.

I need to see a doctor, he a referral, find a doctor who’s seeing new patients most good ones have closed lists or at least 4 months minimum and most common is 6 month wait.

My three year old daughter has always been really socially smart , like can have conversations, understands everything in public she’s everyone’s best friend loves waving to old people, saying hi to Cashers ect

Anyone who looks after her say she’s perfect.

BUT when I’m around she REFUSES to listen to me.

But to the point where the people who call her perfect even say woah

She’s also horrible to her dad.

Behaviours we’re seeing are things like aggressiveness for no reason.

She gets frustrated really fast.

This morning I reminded her to eat her banana a few times in a row and then she got up stepped on my foot and pinched me.

I moved her into her time out couch straight away followed by a we do not hurt people that’s not nice.

I also turned off the tv ( we were watching Bluey)

She keeps hurting me no matter how I’ve reacted and I hate to admit this but there’s been times where I’ve given her a smack back but this doesn’t work. You know how you here the I smaller my kids comment and they never did it again thing. Well that doesn’t work so no point.

when she hurts her self she gets really upset even if she falls on her bum it’s like this huge cry.
When I hug her and tell her to calm sometimes it works sometimes she just escalates.
Especially if I have my hands full.

I have a newborn so if I’m breastfeeding and she fell on her bum I will normally say that’s ok your fine, come here for a hug but no more screaming.
She will just scream louder.

She uses every boundary I don’t have to explain but anything I tell her not to do she just does.

She’s also a little bit clumsy and it concerns me
Because she will be walking one way but is looking at something else and bumps into things or she sits on a couch with W legs and then falls back.

I constantly remind her to look where she’s walking and to sit properly.

Why isn’t she retaining this.

Her dad touches or hugs her or even puts a hand on her she yells don’t touch me get off me.

When I tell her off she gets really upset like I start really calm and nice but firm but she just doesn’t like being told off, she will clench her fists and sort of grunt at me.
Then try’s to throw or kick things.

In time out she will try to get up or either try’s throwing her head back or hurting her self.
Then crys even more.
So it becomes a double ( angry and hurt cry)

She gets really mad with people who don’t play with her.
So with her cousins their all a few years more than her.

If they can’t be bothered playing after they’ve played for hours she starts sooking like “he won’t play with meeeee”

I asked how she is at kinder and mentioned we have some challenging listening and anger at home. They said aha fine but did mention she gets annoyed when he friend won’t play with her I’ve heard this once.

Also she came home and said her friend hit her.
I said “oh no that’s not nice what happened do you tell your teachers?

She said yes and the teacher told me to listen.

So I wonder what happened.

My sister said who has three kids she things she absolutely plays up for me and defiantly doesn’t listen to me.
So she agrees that this behaviour is something that stands out but it seems to be for me.

At her grandparents house, when I get there she starts doing things I don’t like because they’re dangerous and not nice.
She only does it when I get there.

Things are - hiding behind the curtains, climbing the couches like crawling on top, bouncing on the ottoman.

She I’m talking to someone she will block her ears and say don’t talk I don’t like it. And if I ignore her she starts yelling I don’t like it!!

A lot of this has gotten worse since 10 wheeler was born and it’s understandable that a newborn in the picture changes things.

But I also do believe she challenges every little thing

Are three year olds meant to be so challenging in every aspect.

I’m qutioning whether she has a behaviour issue.

My family friends son is 10 he has autism and honestly if they didn’t tell me I wouldn’t have known.
I know a few other in my life who had autism and presented non verbal and had more common symptoms but this boy seems less symptomatic and talks and is a little quiet but apparently his behaviour when his at home is where it gets bad.

It makes me question whether my daughters the same.
Her behaviour has been hard even before her brother.
Her main behaviour issue is emotional regulation.

Struggling to calm down when upset and easily getting upset.

Is this 3 year old behaviour something to talk to a paediatrician about?

The reason I’m asking is because to see a developmental pead in Australia is sooo difficult.

I need to see a doctor, he a referral, find a doctor who’s seeing new patients most good ones have closed lists or at least 4 months minimum and most common is 6 month wait.

My three year old daughter has always been really socially smart , like can have conversations, understands everything in public she’s everyone’s best friend loves waving to old people, saying hi to Cashers ect

Anyone who looks after her say she’s perfect.

BUT when I’m around she REFUSES to listen to me.

But to the point where the people who call her perfect even say woah

She’s also horrible to her dad.

Behaviours we’re seeing are things like aggressiveness for no reason.

She gets frustrated really fast.

This morning I reminded her to eat her banana a few times in a row and then she got up stepped on my foot and pinched me.

I moved her into her time out couch straight away followed by a we do not hurt people that’s not nice.

I also turned off the tv ( we were watching Bluey)

She keeps hurting me no matter how I’ve reacted and I hate to admit this but there’s been times where I’ve given her a smack back but this doesn’t work. You know how you here the I smaller my kids comment and they never did it again thing. Well that doesn’t work so no point.

when she hurts her self she gets really upset even if she falls on her bum it’s like this huge cry.
When I hug her and tell her to calm sometimes it works sometimes she just escalates.
Especially if I have my hands full.

I have a newborn so if I’m breastfeeding and she fell on her bum I will normally say that’s ok your fine, come here for a hug but no more screaming.
She will just scream louder.

She uses every boundary I don’t have to explain but anything I tell her not to do she just does.

She’s also a little bit clumsy and it concerns me
Because she will be walking one way but is looking at something else and bumps into things or she sits on a couch with W legs and then falls back.

I constantly remind her to look where she’s walking and to sit properly.

Why isn’t she retaining this.

Her dad touches or hugs her or even puts a hand on her she yells don’t touch me get off me.

When I tell her off she gets really upset like I start really calm and nice but firm but she just doesn’t like being told off, she will clench her fists and sort of grunt at me.
Then try’s to throw or kick things.

In time out she will try to get up or either try’s throwing her head back or hurting her self.
Then crys even more.
So it becomes a double ( angry and hurt cry)

She gets really mad with people who don’t play with her.
So with her cousins their all a few years more than her.

If they can’t be bothered playing after they’ve played for hours she starts sooking like “he won’t play with meeeee”

I asked how she is at kinder and mentioned we have some challenging listening and anger at home. They said aha fine but did mention she gets annoyed when he friend won’t play with her I’ve heard this once.

Also she came home and said her friend hit her.
I said “oh no that’s not nice what happened do you tell your teachers?

She said yes and the teacher told me to listen.

So I wonder what happened.

My sister said who has three kids she things she absolutely plays up for me and defiantly doesn’t listen to me.
So she agrees that this behaviour is something that stands out but it seems to be for me.

At her grandparents house, when I get there she starts doing things I don’t like because they’re dangerous and not nice.
She only does it when I get there.

Things are - hiding behind the curtains, climbing the couches like crawling on top, bouncing on the ottoman.

She I’m talking to someone she will block her ears and say don’t talk I don’t like it. And if I ignore her she starts yelling I don’t like it!!

A lot of this has gotten worse since 10 wheeler was born and it’s understandable that a newborn in the picture changes things.

But I also do believe she challenges every little thing

Are three year olds meant to be so challenging in every aspect.

I’m qutioning whether she has a behaviour issue.

My family friends son is 10 he has autism and honestly if they didn’t tell me I wouldn’t have known.
I know a few other in my life who had autism and presented non verbal and had more common symptoms but this boy seems less symptomatic and talks and is a little quiet but apparently his behaviour when his at home is where it gets bad.

It makes me question whether my daughters the same.
Her behaviour has been hard even before her brother.
Her main behaviour issue is emotional regulation.

Struggling to calm down when upset and easily getting upset.

Worried about babies eye contact and visual tracking

Worried about babies eye contact and visual tracking

Comparison is the thief of joy I get it.
But when looking back at my daughter and videos at my son’s age, she was literally following me from left to right. I remember I would laugh because I would walk around the house and her head would be following me. I would shake a rattle in front of her and her eyes would catch the item and she would move her head with it.

My son is 9 1/2 weeks old and to get eye contact. I have to put myself in front of him. He doesn’t search for us and sometimes he holds eye contact for a minute or so and he smiles. It’s not like he refuses it at all times, but I have to really work for it.

He doesn’t hear my voice and turn towards me and get a particularly excited.
He doesn’t care about rattles or any toys yet that I shake in front of his face. He seems to only really care about big bright spaces so he likes looking out the window or at the lamp. I’m in Australia we see maternal health nurses.

I’ve booked an appointment with my general practitioner in a couple of weeks to see if he has an improved by three months so I can get a referral to a paediatrician and eye doctor but it’s already sort of breaking my heart but there may be some differences.

Worried about babies eye contact and visual tracking

Comparison is the thief of joy I get it.
But when looking back at my daughter and videos at my son’s age, she was literally following me from left to right. I remember I would laugh because I would walk around the house and her head would be following me. I would shake a rattle in front of her and her eyes would catch the item and she would move her head with it.

My son is 9 1/2 weeks old and to get eye contact. I have to put myself in front of him. He doesn’t search for us and sometimes he holds eye contact for a minute or so and he smiles. It’s not like he refuses it at all times, but I have to really work for it.

He doesn’t hear my voice and turn towards me and get a particularly excited.
He doesn’t care about rattles or any toys yet that I shake in front of his face. He seems to only really care about big bright spaces so he likes looking out the window or at the lamp. I’m in Australia we see maternal health nurses.

I’ve booked an appointment with my general practitioner in a couple of weeks to see if he has an improved by three months so I can get a referral to a paediatrician and eye doctor but it’s already sort of breaking my heart but there may be some differences.