Are all five year-olds as eccentric as mine?
I can't speak for all, but IME, all the healthy and normal ones are.
What it says to me is that you're not forcing him be what you want him to be, but letting him be what he wants to be. Within, of course, safe limits.
I remember once when a friend and I were in a William Tell phase her mother looked out her window one day -- I was maybe six then -- to find her daughter standing in front of a tree with an apple on her head and me holding my bow and arrow and very carefully, very responsibly taking aim. Her ferocious screech startled me, and this tiger of a mother came screaming out into the yard, dragged poor Debbie into the house by the arm, and slammed the door behind them. And made me think I had done something wrong. Which I couldn't understand. If WT could do it and be a hero for it, why couldn't I?
My bow was taken away from me. So unfair, I thought. I mean, it was history, wasn't it? And we were being very careful about it.
So make sure the fantasies are safe ones. But otherwise, sounds mighty healthy to me. |
