On Friday I was treating a two year old boy. I was sitting behind him, he was sitting between my legs. The OT who I was co-treating with was sitting in front of us to help him play with a toy. The toy we had out was a cash register and it had different shapes for buttons. One of the shapes was a heart (it's a Disney Princess cash register), so the OT said "Where's the heart?" This little boy pauses and then puts his hand over his heart on his chest to show us his heart. It was absolutely precious. The OT said "Good job. That's right, that's your heart and did the same thing to show where her heart was. So this sweet boy turns around and puts his hand on me and says "heart" to show me where my heart was. So priceless. It was adorable. Clearly this two year-old has spent too many months in the hospital where he has nurses and doctors listening to his heart since he knows where his heart is in his body, but doesn't know the shape. :(
During this same session, the fire alarm went off which includes a very loud bell and flashing lights. It scared this child to pieces. He was about to get frantic, so I held him close and said to him really quietly that everything was ok and that the bell is ringing, but I would stay right with him, so everything was fine. I pointed to the bell and showed him where it was coming from. It only lasted a minute at the most and he was more than a little jumpy, so we told him it was "all done". I kept holding him in my lap and we continued playing, but periodically throughout the session, he would turn his head toward the alarm and say "bell all done?". It was so cute and so sad. That thing scares the kids so much!
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