Q A two-year-old attending pre-school finds it very hard to concentrate on an activity. She flits between different areas and never seems to interact properly with the other children. Should we be concerned?
A Yes, we think you should be concerned. You paint a picture of a little girl who is detached from her surroundings and drifts aimlessly through her day in a way that is unusual and which merits investigation. Her behaviour suggests that her enthusiasm to find things out and her imagination are both unengaged, which means that she is not acting like an ordinary two-year-old. At that age they are usually into everything, irrepressibly eager to find out about the real world and to create wonderful fantasy worlds from cardboard boxes and puddles or whatever else is available.
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