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Hi, My 2.5 year old hates when people count. She gets extremely upset and cries. It's very selective though, sometimes the Count on Sesame Street can count and she's fine or I can count her toes and she laughs. If Dora or Elmo count she loses her mind and screams. My stepmother counted the other day and Ruby ran out of the run screaming. I don't know how to deal with this. What can I do to desensitize her from this? She can't go through life avoiding hearing people count. I'm hoping she'll grow out of this fear. We have a newborn and the poor baby gets startled when Ruby screams. My dd lost her mind when we sang the alphabet song and anytime someone said "amen". We would say grace and she went crazy after saying amen. I thought it was when we all said it together, like singing the abc's but it didn't matter if only my husband said it. She didn't get better until last year. I asked her teachers to sing the birthday song during music time at her school everyday. I don't know that it helped though. I think she just adjusted on her own but maybe yoy could have counting time everyday. If all else fails, cut out Dora and Elmo. It may be their voices counting that bother her. (We still whisper amen!)One of the little guys I work with used to have a hard time with mom talking, about anything. And then out of nowhere it changed to mom talking, and to me talking (mom thinks it's because I spend so much time with him.) He would cry, scream and hit when either of us would talk to anyone (including himself). How we addressed it was just ignoring him. We'd talk and talk and talk until he'd stop with the behaviors, and as soon as he stopped we would too. This took about two weeks, and still does it occasionally, but it worked!Maybe you could try it with the counting, and just keep going until she stops being upset about it...good luck! |
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