Stephanie wrote:
> Narelle wrote:
>> My dd cut her own eyelashes when she was around 4yo. Her reason was
>> that she "wanted to have pretty eyes like her dolls".
>> They grew back fine, and she never did it again.
>
> The weird thing is that she genuinely does not seem to know what
happened.
I dunno. At 4yo, magical thinking still applies: if
I *want* not to have done it badly enough, I really didn't do it.
They can be utterly convincing and totally false all at the same
time ;-) After her grandparents made a fuss, she may have heartily
wished she hadn't done it and decided to go with that theory, even
if normally she wouldn't have lied about something like that.
Best wishes,
Ericka
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