Stephanie wrote:
> Ericka Kammerer wrote:
>> 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.
>
> That is what I think. Which is fine. My ONLY worry is that there is
someone
> who is sticking scissors near her eyes and may attempt to repeat the
> process.
You know her the best, but if it were *my* DD, if
someone else had done it, she'd likely be ratting them out
in no time flat ;-)
Best wishes,
Ericka
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