So has anyone else had their child swallow one of the metal balls from the magnetic building thing? I feel like a dufus cause hubby was doing the supervised toy play thing with it and I just left the things out for him. Sigh!
They're really small, and I called poison control to ask what we should do - no worries as long as it's just one, and as long as there are no magnets involved. I feel like a total stupid for letting him play with them unsupervised. My guy just turned 4 and he hasn't really put much stuff in his mouth, so this was a bit of a surprise. My hubby said he asked him why and son said "because I was sad." It was naptime for him and "us" time for us - daddy was playing with mommy (not son LOL), so I'm guessing it might have been an attention move (that's what hubby thinks).
Has anybody dealt with this kind of attention ploy? Thanks!
Kids just do weird things. 4 year olds should be able to play by themselves sometimes. Its not your fault. My daughter got a barbie shoe stuck up her nose at that age. Really? No words....
haha 4 year olds are so weird! When my niece was 4 she all of a sudden became obsessed with saying everything smelled like poop. When she went in for a doctor's checkup they found that she had a q-tip tip stuck up in her nose where it was rotting and decaying, so of course everything was smelling like poop! Weird girl decided to stick it up her nose one day and it broke off and she never bothered to tell anyone haha
don't beat yourself up, kids are just going to be kids!
I suggest that you're over analyzing this. At 4 he can be left to play unsupervised with the magnetic building set, It's not your fault! Kids just do some strange things at times.
And it really doesn't matter why he did it. I suggest that swallowing the metal ball and feeling sad are only related by being close in time. And his feeling sad may not related to what was happening at the moment since you were following a usual routine. I suggest he may have been feeling sad because he swallowed the ball and it was causing a problem.
If his feeling sad was related to what was happening I wouldn't look at it as an attention ploy. Instead I'd say it was him telling you how he was feeling at the moment. It's OK to feel sad about having to stop playing with Dad and having to take a nap. Sad feels like a normal response to stopping what you're enjoying doing.
He swallowed a metal ball because he felt like doing it. Doesn't matter why. He felt sad and a couple of things were happening that could make him feel sad. Good that he could express his feelings. I don't see anything in this to be attention seeking.
When he said he was sad... did you guys ask him "how come?"
Don't know if he did that for attention or not.
I mean, Daddy was playing with him.
My son will once in awhile say he is sad. I ask him why. It is OFTEN, because of something earlier in the day. NOT right at that moment.
And for something, that to us, was really not noteworthy.
But I always talk to my son about it. And let him explain why.
Hi P.,
I wouldn't put too much stock in why a 4 year-old "says" they do something. (Ever watch the show, "Kids Say the Darndest Things" with Bill Cosby? Watch it on YouTube and see what age most of the kiddos are - LOL!
Take care.
t
a 4 year old should know better, if my 4 year old had done that i would have been tempted to give him a "DUH!" slap upside the back of his head. just kidding. but i would have definitely called it one of those dumb kid things. these things happen. it is wierd that at 4 he would do that though...i can't see my 4 year old doing that for attention. doesn't he have naptime EVERY day? why that day? wonder what was going on?
I pretty much have to agree with all the other mommas.. Kids will be Kids.. Hopefully this will be a lesson learned in your household. My daughter who is two has learned one of those valuable lessons herself when she decided to put kernels of corn up her nose when we were out eating dinner with my family. She has loved and has ate corn for months now and never attempted something such as that, but I think it was only because her 10 year old uncle thiought it was funny and cute and was laughing at her. But as soon as I noticed that has been going on the fun and games were over. Long story short couldnt get one of the kernels out and called the doctor... Doctor advised us of potential harm it could cause the longer it is up there so it would be best to take her to the emergency room and have it removed bythe ENT doctor , which we did.. and it was absolutely horrible for us for her... I cried seeing her cry so bad while they held her down and sucked it out with the machine thing. I didnt think I was ever going to let her corn again because I didnt want another episode as that one, but she was back to eating corn 2 days later! And no problems at all~! I think sometimes things like this are ment to happen, that is how a lesson is learned, right!?!
