My daughter, she's five, has been twirling her hair around her fingers to the point the it knots up and even falls out. We've been doing our best at trying to distract her from doing it. I mean it's so bad that I find knotted clumps in her bed when I change her sheets.

Today is picture day which I mentioned before and as I was trying to put her hair in a cute ponytail I noticed she has a bald spot on the side of her head. I had to start over and do something completely different to cover up the evidence of her twirling. Not only that but now I feel an urgency to break her of this damaging habit before it gets worse. I need to find the root of this new nervous behavior.