Clare Crowe

She keeps on saying everything's fine.

But, you know, I've now put away everything that's sharp in the house and I've locked the medical cabinets.

I just feel uneasy all the time.

For that parent, my answer was come in, come straight into your GP.

In that case, she was linked.

So come into me.

And the reason is parents are experts in their children.

If you have a sense something is wrong, then address it.

Now, there are parameters for that support.

So, for example, you know, I would say play therapy, art therapy, sand tray therapy.

These are really gorgeous interventions for children.

And I would use those if I felt, God, there's a problem.

It's, you know, it's either escalating or it's been very sustained already.

Or if it's interfering with our kids job and their job is to make friends, go to school, play.

So if those things are impacted, I'm going to start with those levels of therapies.

Yeah, I actually think it tells your child, I see something is wrong and I'm worried.

And I would use those words.

I see you're in your room a lot on your own or I see it's tricky when you go on playdates to talk to other people.

You know, tell them what you see.

Explain your rationale.