David Coleman
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 14 Sep
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house thinking we can never afford this mortgage and then you know give it fifteen, ten, fifteen years and you're thinking, Oh my God, you know, compared to some of the other costs we now have, our mortgage almost seems, you know, downright manageable.
And and so I think there is this sense that when we start anything, it seems almost like it's too much.
Mm-hmm.
And and so it's just about having a little bit of patience with your son or daughter, hanging in with them, acknowledging it, letting them know that you get it, that it's tough going, that this is a
a big transition and and it is.
I think it's exhausting as well for a lot of kids.
Like I think it's not until maybe s for some, you know, into the the spring terms before they actually feel like they have a handle on what secondary school is all about.
So I I mean it's it's difficult because uh it has all the hallmarks of something like um O C D um uh obsessive compulsive disorder and uh so that the the touching, you know, the the behavior is a compulsive behavior, but it's designed to try to reduce typically some anxious thinking or some anxious thought, so that if I do this repetitive behavior or
If I follow this particular almost ritual or routine, then I'm going to avoid either a bad thought or bad things happening.
So the the the only bit that's missing, I suppose, from what those parents are describing is that there doesn't seem to be necessarily any great anxiety behind it.
And so if it's just that it's um the behavioral thing, you could almost consider it to be a little bit more like what we'd call a behavioral tick.
And so there are lots of children
who might do, you know, uh a repetitive something with um, you know, moving their arm, moving their hand.
Sometimes you get facial ticks where children blink um um, you know, repetitively or they'll twitch their face in some way.
And so in that situation I think it's just about bringing her awareness to it and letting her know that, you know, they spot it and and letting her know as well that she can do something different.
And so it
It's about, you know, having something else to distract her hand so that if it is the case that she's about to touch something the second time, that that hand can do something different.
Um But you know, I I am also reminded that if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
If it's not really bothering her, if it doesn't get in the way, if it doesn't delay her, if it doesn't mean that she's avoiding things um and and she's not distressed by it, there may not be much need to
do too much with it because it could well just resolve of its own accord.
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