My eldest daughter was going to nursery by now and I missed her so much, I would even stay close to the nursery in case they needed to phone me, although I only lived a ten minute walk away, I had to stay close. We had a very strong bond and I could not bear to be away from her. I developed anxiety and panic attacks around this time and it became a struggle for me. I hid it best I could as she was thriving at nursery and thankfully despite the home life she was a happy and well adjusted little girl.
My little girl sat at our solid oak dining table one afternoon and was quite happily drawing on the sheets of white paper, she was very advanced and extremely creative, unlike me who found it hard to even draw as much as a square.
I was pottering around in the kitchen, the music quietly played out and it was just another ordinary day. I had a large growing pile of pictures she had drawn for me when she proudly stood in front of me and handed me another.
Usually I would tell her how great it was and how clever she was but this picture touched a raw nerve and it stopped me in my tracks.
“ It’s a very beautiful picture” I told her “ Can you tell me who the people are”?
She stood matter of factly, with her hands on her hips and replied “ My family”
There stood three people, a big person a little person and a tiny person.
The big person is daddy is proudly told me as he was the boss of our house so had to be the biggest, he stood with a nice big red smile across his face.
The little person was mummy, who had blue dots on her face, I asked her why I had blue spots on my face and she told me the blue spots were tear drops as mummy cried and never smiled, so I was not allowed a big red smiley face as I was sad and not happy.
The tiny person was her, thankfully she wore a big red smile.
Quite ironic that a three year old child could feel my emotions and know how unhappy I was, yet my family and the few friends I had never realised or if they did they never asked me.
I gave birth to my second daughter a few months later and life resumed as normal. I would stay for 11 years in total.
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children do tend to pick up on things better than adults but i have found people dont ask or say anything because they are too busy with their own lives or even worse just cant be bothered x
Yes definalty children pick up more on the emotions of people, xx
Children do pick up on things like this, dylan did at the age of one
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Children always pick up on atmospheres and peoples emotions hugs hun I can imagine how much of a shock it was for you to have been given that picture xx
hugs hun kids always pick up on these things its not your fault xxx
they always pick up on things better than adults hun, it’s awful that none of your family/friends saw it though =/ xx
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children seems to pick alot more up the adults just a shame no one helped you or picked up on it hugs xx
awww so sad this just goes to show childrenpick up on alot more than we think
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children do pick up on emotion…. i was a daddys girl…. my brother however would scream everytime he came home or was told he was on his way home… he could sense something wrong…. my dad left when i was 5… it was later i found out about his very dark past and everything he did to my mum and sister
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Thanks for sharing!
U can’t help the way u feel and unfortunately children do pick up on things like that x
Hugs hunnie, kids are more attuned to us than us mummies realise some times xx
children do seem to pick up of things we think we hide xx
Awww how sad =( Bless her but kids are smarter than we think. They are very quick to pick up on our emotions. Big hugs xx
kids pick up on alot of things bless her big hugs
Children Definatly pick up on everything x
Kids are so clever and pick up alsorts even if were trying our best to hide them xx
just goes too show children pick up on everything xx
we hope children dont pick up on things but unfortunatly they do more than we think
at least ur out now and ur lg is now a lovely teenager xx
Kids understand much more than we give them credit for sometimes x
I never realised how much kids did pick up on until recently, hugs and well done for getting out x
Unfortunately kids do pick up on these thing, but you cant help the way you feel. x
children do pick up on things better some adults may have picked up on how unhappy you were but they dont want to get involved they either dont have the time or there is to much going on in their own life we dont seem to have time for each other sad as that is
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hugs sweet, its mad how much children pick up on isnt it xx