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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks to all who have shared their experiences. Have any of your older children given you feedback on your guidance?

Our son generally does his “skipping,” which is more like a little gallop maneuver that he does back and forth 3 or 4 paces, sometime during the first hour or two after we get home for the day. While he does this, he swings his arms in big circles and vocalizes, as I referenced earlier. He usually does this for fewer than 5 mins most days (maybe more like 2 mins?). I am not certain whether he does this at school, but I don’t think he does. A professional told me to redirect him when he starts this behavior, but the timing of it and big movements involved make me think it’s needed self-regulation. Any thoughts on this?

His other stimming generally involves a seated or standing bouncing and arm/hand flapping for a second or two, in relation to whatever has just excited him. So if we’re at a holiday event and there’s a big model train going around in circles on a track, we’d see more consistent stims with bigger motions. Or more routinely, I was watching him at school before pickup - he was playing trains with another child (yay!) and when he put a piece of wooden track in place, he would stim for a couple of seconds. Then, when he found a train to put on the new track to try it out, he’d stim again. Or when his playmate put a new piece of track down or ran his train around the track, he stimmed.

As others have said, maybe his stimming will decrease as he ages, which would be great. If not, what age do you think would be appropriate to raise this? He will definitely be able to understand this as he gets a bit older and might even understand now, if I discussed it with him (but it feels too early for that).[/quote]

You need a new “professional.” Those are not behaviors of concern for a 4 year old. [/quote]

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