Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Self soothing

Whenever Matthew hurts himself, he will come running to me and says, "Mummy sayang". I will have to kiss the spot that was hurt to make him feel better. There was this time when we were riding in the car, and he remembered hurting his leg when we went barbeque the other day, and as usual, he asked me to 'sayang' him. However, I was sitting in front and cannot reach him, so I asked him to 'sayang' himself, and guess what, he lifted up his leg and kissed the spot that was hurt!

From then on, he developed his own self soothing technique and if he sees me busy, he will 'help' himself first before running to me. We haven't got a chance to take any picture of him doing that. Watch out for this space and we will upload it whenever we get the chance.

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