I think this child needs some help and I would like to ask what his parents think about it.?
I agree with margy that this child needs help - has he had a head injury recently?
These do sound like night terrors - if he's waking up from naps in this weird sleep state of noting that people are in the room but not recognizing them, having tantrums asking for his mother when she's right there, then falling to sleep and waking later with no memory of the incident this does sound like night terrors.
I had a two year old son that had them and he'd wake about an hour after going to bed for the night, crying for me, but would push me away and not appear to recognize me. It would go on for 45 minutes or so, until he kind of "came out of it" and would look around like he was kind of bewildered about how he got in my lap, and go back to sleep soundly.
He had been dropped on his head that week at the church nursery and had suffered a mild concussion.
I wonder if this is what happened to your God son? Some kids just begin night terrors during this time with no apparent cause.
My pediatrician recommended putting him in the shower - you have to go in with him, and the warm water wakes them up apparently. Anyway, worked for my pediatrician, we never tried it.
Best wishes.
i agree he needs some kind of help, he only lives with his mum, the father hasnt been around since she became pregnant so thats consistent in his life so no issue there. It was just so strange to see it happen in the day, and i dont even know if he just started screaming randomly or was asleep before it happened...his mum seems to think another child from nursery has said something to him to scare him and / or is being abused and this child is telling my godson the stuff that happens to them...would that have an impact on my godson alone, surely he would be too young to understand this unless its happening to him. Im more inclined to think someone is abusing him? although there is not a mark on his body, no signs of head inj, and i only saw him 2 days before that and he was happy as larry playing on me and being cheeky as usual, im jus so worried cos of the things he apparently said to his mum. But apparently hes fine again today :S