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Wrinkly bath hands = meltdown

Yesterday the (almost) 5 year old got out of the bath and headed straight for the sink where she started frantically washing her hands in the sink. She was rubbing away at her palms and started crying "get it off, get IT off!"

It took a moment before I understood she meant the wrinkles that had covered her hands. I tried to explain that it was normal, Christ, she's been in the bath enough times in her life for it to have happened before, in fact I'm fairly certain we've talked about it on previous occasions but for some reason she'd lost it. She ran into her room crying to her dad about it (who'd less sympathy to share than I did), and she started to truly freak out about it. It's not uncommon for her to "over react" at times when over stimulated. It's not constant, but things like her feet falling asleep can get her really worked up, or a strand hair on her hand. She LOVES getting messy but at certain times certain things push her over the edge. I've no idea if she's just ever so slightly on the spectrum (most people have brushed me off on the suggestion) or as I've started to suspect she might have obstructive sleep apnoea as she had it as a baby I just assumed she'd grown out of it (planning on chasing doctors for a sleep study) or if she is just an over tired child when she goes loopy. I definitely started questioning her behaviour more once her first younger sibling turned up. Maybe I'm making mountains out of mole hills and just want a reason for why I have a harder time connecting with her...

Doesn't matter too much in this instance but I felt my feelings were part of the back story.
I got her to calm down enough to listen to me (she was still sobbing and rubbing her hands on the bed trying to remove the wrinkles) and I explained that actually it was really cool because she'd absorbed water which had made her wrinkly so she wouldn't slip as easily in the bath. I tried to explain I couldn't do anything to make it go away other than wait it out but that she should see it as a super power because she'd basically got frog hands, maybe she could have even climb walls.

Which only encouraged her to try to climb the walls in her room. Of course the 2 year old had to join in while the baby watched and laughed at his sisters. And so the two spent 10 minutes attacking (think that's the best way  to describe their strange attempt to ascend the wall) the wall before bed time was enforced because they moved on to climbing the furniture.

The disaster of the wrinkly hands was diverted at least.


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  1. Sammi7 January 2019 at 21:03

    The post made me laugh out loud (at the ending). What a girl!

    What great parenting and especially at bedtime when patience is always wearing thin!

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