Child Psychology

[tsunamimami]

I found pictures in my digital cam that my four year old son took of his penis. I asked him why he did it and all he could say was "I don''t know."  Is this normal? Where do I even begin to deal with this?

[Roger Gould, M.D.]

What you describe may be nothing more than the normal curiousity of what sounds like a very precocious child.

[finditat]

I did things like that when I was a child becasue I had been exposed to sexual abuse when i was 2-5 years old.
It is almost impossible to get a child this young to voice anything that may have happened to them as they don't yet know how to distinguish right from wrong touching.
they believe that if a big person is doing it then it must be ok.
You have to look at everyone that has or is coming into contact with your child.
In my case it was the babysitter then my grandfather, uncle and the neighbor boy down the block who himself had been abused.
Your child may have been exposed to someone who took pictures of his penis and so thought that was the thing to do when he saw the camera.
Protect your child better from now on and watch for other knowledge of sexual things he may do. Children do not have any knowledge of things like this. If they know it then they learned it from somewhere.