Saturday, May 3, 2008

"scared of everything type of kid"

Tyler has not been himself since the dog attack. We will really could not put our finger on it but just knew that he was off. (if you do not know the whole story check out my older post "just another chapter in our book...") He cried at the drop of a hat, he was not happy!(ever) Even soccer, his favorite thing in the world was not going so well. So on Wednesday of last week we sat him down and talked to him and asked what was going on?? His reply was so hard and sad to hear, he said that he was afraid of everything!! Everything that he went to do the first thing he thought was if this happens or that happens I will be hurt and have to go to the emergency room....what do you do to help your child with something like that?? I knew that he would be afraid of dogs and that it would take some time to get over but I never thought he would become this scared of everything type of kid. Warren is always a great daddy but that night he was the BEST!! He knew all the right words and all the ways to fix it. I know that we still have a little way to go with all of this but it has gotten so much better...so just pray for Tyler right now that he will get back to the fun, loving, sweetheart not afraid of anything little boy he was before that mean ole dog. ps. update on the dog for those of you that do not live here..it is back in the neighborhood and animal control told us if we ever see it off the chain to call and they will come pick it up..well silly people that did not do much good for Tyler seeing as how it was on the chain when it attacked him...

2 comments:

Amanda said...

Poor thing! I hate to hear that he is missing out on fun because of that dog attack. I am praying for him.

Stephanie Anderson said...

Tate didn't get attacked by a dog but recently he's been going through this questioning thing:

"What happens if you eat a spider?"
"What happens if you get shampoo in your mouth?"
"What happens if you touch the stem of a dandelion?".....

.....and on and on and on. It's gotten a little better lately. It's been really annoying. I hate it that Tyler's fears have gotten the best of him lately. You're right, that's not much like Tyler. Glad to hear Willard had some words of wisdom for him!

Love ya
Steph