Hello,
I'm a Mum of two girls, my eldest (4 years old) has been diagnosed with ASD. My Husband has just returned to work yesterday after a two week break for Christmas and we had a terrible day. She was moody and tearful all day long, she wet herself (which she has not done for a while). She also had a horrible night, waking and crying with nightmares about her Dad going back to work.
She knows that he works in schools sometimes and she had a number of traumatic experiences when she started nursery when she was three (which I was unaware of until I removed her). I removed her after two and a half months because of lack of help from the nursery (they refused to get any extra help for her even though the head of the nursery admitted that they could not cope with her).
She told me this morning she had a nightmare that her nursery assistant did something horrible to her Dad, she would not say what and I didn't pressure her to tell me.
Does any one have any advise after being in a similar situation?
We try to explain that dreams are just things that your worrying about before sleep and they come to you as dreams that can be odd and sometime scarry. She did say she felt better after talking about the dream a little and she seems a little happier today.
