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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Offer to make her a sandwich and help pack a suitcase. She wants to run away from her problems, from her fear. [/quote]

This sounds like a very bad idea to me.  She's not 13, she's 6![/quote]

Different poster, but I did the same thing when I was 6 or 7.  I even packed a suitcase and walked about a mile away in our neighborhood.  My mom said fine, didn't come after me and didn't make a big deal about it.  After a while, I walked back on my own and no one said a word.  Never tried it again.  She's doing it to get attention.  Don't "rise" to the occasion on this one and don't make a big deal about it.[/quote]

I don't have a kid with anxiety, but my DS did this around 5/6. Told him don't let the door hit you on the way out. (because that is what my mother did for my brother years agos, packed the sandwich too!).  We stayed back out of eyesight of him, but we could see him. We did a little prodigal son party when he returned (Look who's returned! We love you! We missed you! Let's have some ice cream! NO comments about the "told ya so")  Never happened again. (at least not yet, still have the teen years to go).  
I think she just wants to feel empowered and not trapped at home.  [/quote]

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