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I don't know if there's some underlying issue for all of these concerns or if they're just individual issues I need to tackle. I also don't know how much of this is in the wide spectrum of normal.
*Anxiety: So she has a lot of anxiety. She's an extremely light sleeper due to it. She still wants me to lie down with her to fall asleep and will wake up as soon as I get up to leave. She ends up in our room every night and has to be touching me or she'll wake up and move next to me. We call her a heat-seeking missile. She asks me a lot of "what if?" questions about whatever's bothering her that day.
*Physical delays: She walked late/never crawled and was in physical therapy from 11 months to just this past year. Her diagnosis was flat feet and hip weakness. They prescribed orthotics for the flat feet and advised us to put her in lots of physical activities/sports to strengthen her hips and core. She's in soccer, gymnastics, swimming and tae kwon do. She's by far the most far behind in all of those activities compared to the other kids. Part of it is the physical weakness but she also barely tries. She's clumsy and between that and her anxiety, she puts the least effort in.
*Fine motor skills: she'll often resort to eating with her hands instead of utensils. She seems to have more difficulty with it than her 2 year old brother.
She flaps her arms and bounces (when sitting) when she gets excited. She only does this at home, so it's controllable.
Her lack of empathy (she's overly sensitive about herself if she gets physically or emotionally but laughs or gets angry when someone else is upset or hurt) I've been modeling empathy so sometimes I'll see her mimicking me when her brother gets hurt but I don't know if she actually feels bad about it.
Any advice? I don't know if these are just individual issues I need to tackle or if there's some underlying issue. On the other hand, her strengths are that she spoke early and loves reading and writing.
*Anxiety: So she has a lot of anxiety. She's an extremely light sleeper due to it. She still wants me to lie down with her to fall asleep and will wake up as soon as I get up to leave. She ends up in our room every night and has to be touching me or she'll wake up and move next to me. We call her a heat-seeking missile. She asks me a lot of "what if?" questions about whatever's bothering her that day.
*Physical delays: She walked late/never crawled and was in physical therapy from 11 months to just this past year. Her diagnosis was flat feet and hip weakness. They prescribed orthotics for the flat feet and advised us to put her in lots of physical activities/sports to strengthen her hips and core. She's in soccer, gymnastics, swimming and tae kwon do. She's by far the most far behind in all of those activities compared to the other kids. Part of it is the physical weakness but she also barely tries. She's clumsy and between that and her anxiety, she puts the least effort in.
*Fine motor skills: she'll often resort to eating with her hands instead of utensils. She seems to have more difficulty with it than her 2 year old brother.
She flaps her arms and bounces (when sitting) when she gets excited. She only does this at home, so it's controllable.
Her lack of empathy (she's overly sensitive about herself if she gets physically or emotionally but laughs or gets angry when someone else is upset or hurt) I've been modeling empathy so sometimes I'll see her mimicking me when her brother gets hurt but I don't know if she actually feels bad about it.
Any advice? I don't know if these are just individual issues I need to tackle or if there's some underlying issue. On the other hand, her strengths are that she spoke early and loves reading and writing.
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