Big has gone away with Tim overnight. This has caused a level of anguish for Small as now he has no one to play with. Disregard if you will the fact that he and Big very rarely play together these days, at least when she is here he has the option. So he’s already stressed.
Aargh. The cat sat on his Christmas list. He’s in tears again, I think this is the third time in the last hour.
It’s going to be a tough couple of days. We’ve got the christmas tree in its box in the kitchen, and we’ve had a fallout over that as I won’t let him have it in his room. We opened the box of decorations and found his snowman decoration and he ran off with that and put it in his toy box. I’ve tried to explain that he isn’t a toy, he’s a decoration and that caused more tears as that means he hasn’t got any christmassy toys to play with. I’m not sure why he needs christmassy toys, but apparently he does. So I suggested the snowman could sit on his shelves, and was told that he doesn’t have any shelves – I pointed out that he has bookshelves, but that would mean that he’d look like a thing for doing art with.
I don’t think I’m winning here.
Small is a very wonderful person. He has taught himself to read – he’s reading this over my shoulder now. And smiling. 🙂 But he does get stressed over unexpected things – he seems to think at right angles to the rest of the world, and it frequently catches me out. When we have these cross purpose conversations he can get very upset, very quickly, or sometimes very angry, and I can get very tired trying to sort everything out. I’m hoping that we can make things better when we don’t have school to contend with, as I think the environment with other children raises the background stress level considerably. Ah well, guess we’ll find out in a week or so. 😀
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