Does your toddler have an obsession?

Rachel - posted on 11/12/2012

Trashcans.



Took him to the zoo for the first time this past weekend. He's currently 27 months old. While he asked to get into the pens with the animals he noticed, particularly ones with water, what he was most fascinated with were the trashcans. When we first got there and he saw the first trashcan, he just started repeating, "Trash cans are not a toy" over and over. Later, there was peacock standing by one of the trashcans, and about 5 times I was like, "Look Nick, a peacock!". His response was to look at me and matter-of-factly, "Mama, trash can", while patting the side of the trash can. When it was time to go, we gave up on keeping him away from them and allowed him to pick up leaves and run to the next trashcan to throw them away. There were lots of trashcans so it was a quick and easy way to get him to walk to the exit. Took him to a hockey game on Sunday, and again, he just kept trying to find a reason why we should go throw something in a trashcan. Even at people's houses, he just wants to throw something, anything, away.

Tammy - posted on 08/29/2012

Adam's Obsessions:

My son has had several obsessions but none have overlapped. From the age of 1-2 yrs old he was obsessed with Little Einsteins particularly with classical music and instruments. At this age he did not use many words to speak but could recite several episodes word for word, repeatedly and could even name & classify many instruments. He was also able to name the instrument by merely hearing it play on a cd or radio. From the age of 2-3 he became obsessed with Thomas the Engine and all the characters from the show. He knew everything and anything about the series from the names of each  character train to using British lingo in his vocabulary. This expanded into an interest in real trains where he was solely interested in reading, playing with, and watching movies and shows about trains. At the age of 3 is where the obsession with Sea Life/Marine Life began. 

This has been the longest obsession; he is now almost 6 years old. This obsession is still growing strong. I can't even figure out how to explain the intense and extensive knowledge my son has with this topic. It has controlled his every thought to the extent that he strongly believes he is whatever sea animal he chooses to be on any given day. He is mostly fascinated by Killer Whales. He can tell you anything there is to know about them from their personality to what they eat to where they can be found. He can name every species including whales, sharks, dolphin, fish, coral reef facts, and so on. It's insane. Interesting but insane. He speaks of nothing else and relates real life events to sea life. For example if he doesn't like someone they are a shark and if he likes you and you treat him nicely you are a dolphin or mermaid. If he's a whale than whatever he is eating is "krill", because that's what whales eat. He switches from creature to creature on a weekly to monthly basis. Last week it was the Oarfish. These days he's obsessed with Octonauts, calls us all by character names and got obsessed with Giant Spider crabs after seeing one episode about them. He spends hours drawing them, watching them on you tube and pretending to be one. This is where the obsession becomes a problem with social interactions. Crabs "snap" their claws so he has gotten into trouble everyday in his first week of Kindergarten (public school God help us) because he keeps snapping at other kids. This means he is basically pinching other children. He has not been diagnosed because it has really been a challenge getting an eval but I'm almost positive my son has Asperger's. 

Colleen - posted on 03/10/2012

Nothing escapes the fate of becoming her pretend "mommy," "daddy," and "baby ha" This includes squares of toilet paper, rocks and - most recently - deposits in the potty

Jenny_D - posted on 02/29/2012

My 3 year old is VERY girly and loves dresses. She refuses to wear jeans and will only wear dresses, skirts and if she has to wear pants, they have to be leggins...tight ones, not flaired. She will not wear sweat pants or pj pants to bed either, she pretty much only wears night gowns!

Lindsay - posted on 02/24/2012

Omg my son is obsessed with balloons! everywhere we go he sees one and its tantrum city until he has it in his hands. Also ducks, thank goodness there aren't any he can grab.

Sharon - posted on 02/23/2012

my two year old is obsessed with Thomas the Tank. He has been since he was about 18months although now it is moving into other trains, planes and helicopters. So cute when he comes out with "toot toot" mid sentence or mid conversation.

Kasei - posted on 02/20/2012

My son is a year and a half and he is obsessed with cars, trucks, and animals. But he is specially into big mac trucks, every time we drive by a big truck he always has to say out loud "Truck Beep Beep" he really keeps his eyes out when we are on the road he can't miss those big trucks. He loves them, he will even wave to them i think its so cute!!

Heidi - posted on 02/19/2012

letters. When he sees one that he know he yells the name, and he sees them everywhere. He has started identifing the lowercase ones, and is calling all the ones he doesn't know "baby E". He loves them. He looks for letters puzzles, and finds them on his toys. It's so cute, when he says "Q", and W was "buba-woo" for the longest time.

Ericka - posted on 09/29/2011

My daughter is almost 2 and she is obsessed with Elmo and Abby Cadabby. Anything Elmo or Abby she has to have. She has to watch Sesame Street everyday and when it's not on she insists we youtube videos of Abby and Elmo.

Janeta - posted on 09/29/2011

My fourteen month old daughter is obsessed with anything Dora the Explorer!

Jessica - posted on 09/28/2011

My son is OBSESSED with vehicles of any kind!! Mostly constrution ones though! He cant get enough of them!!

Tonya - posted on 09/25/2011

My daughter is obsessed with "harry potter" i have had some parents tell me that she shouldn't watch it becasue its scary...but i do not let her see any of the other movies..jsut the first one...there is nothing in that movie i think is scary and she has never had any problems about it..she LOVES him..she wakes up and asks me "momma, harry potter now please" and i put the movie on and she will seriously watch the whole movie. she wants to watch it so much i honestly have to make her understand that she cant watch it all the time...and then i put the tv on sprout to watch Caillou..and 5mins after that shes walking up to me asking for harry again...lol

Tracy - posted on 09/25/2011

Octopus!

Stifler's - posted on 09/24/2011

Logan has become obsessed with the vacuum.

Ashely - posted on 09/24/2011

My 21 month old is still wanting his paci, I dont know how to break him or if I should let him to continue to have it.. My oldest never took to the paci so I didnt have a problem with him.. what should I do if he see's it during the day he wants it I say no and he starts crying and throws a fit.. Is that normal... Need advice..

Andrea - posted on 09/15/2011

My son gets crazy excited if he sees a Dog on tv. But other than that he has a crazy obsession with this panda stuffed animal he has and a mickey mouse stuffed toy... and well his blankets. (He's 18mon)

Zipporah - posted on 09/12/2011

My daughter is obsessed with kitty's, doggies, and babies! Every time we are out if she sees one she yells MOMMY BABY!!!! Or doggie or kitty whatever it might be that she sees.

Briana - posted on 09/09/2011

My toddler is obsessed with tags and ribbons. She HAS to have one handy most of the day, especially when she's either taking a nap or going to bed at night. If she's got her thumb in her mouth, she's got a tag in her other hand.

Barb - posted on 09/09/2011

My little ponies she owns a bunch of the books, wants to watch the episods we've over and over and over again every day instead of a new program. She constantly talks about ponies and knows all their names. Doesn't like to get dirty at all if she gets food on her hands I have to watch it over. She hates being dirty and will wash her hands way to much if you let her. Obessed with phones and remotes, anything with bottons, pianos.

Jennifer - posted on 09/07/2011

my dughter is obsessed with.. hair... ugh, especially my hair. she takes a strand or 2 from the bottom of my ponytail, ouch! like the baby hairs that stick out. she has been doing this since she was like 3 or 4 months. and she will be 2 in november. she uses it to comfort her to sleep, or when she hurts herself bad enough for me to pick her up. when shes hungry. whenever she gets a chance. she takes a strand or 2 and puts it around her 2 fingers and sucks on it. she used to scour the floor looking for it when she crawled. i had to vaccuum all the time. if she sees it on the side of the tub during bathtime, she goesfor it. it is discusting lol. i have never allowed her to do it, but she stil tries every chance she gets. she only does it to her daddy or me. i HATE it and nothing i can do will get her to stop. grrr... ive even thoguht about shaving my head! i hope she stops it soon it drives me crazy!

Melodye - posted on 09/06/2011

She has gone from shoes to airplanes and now it's the movie Toy Story. She lives and breathes it everyday!

Katrina - posted on 09/04/2011

My daughter is obsessed with the Wiggles and especially their song "Quack quack"!! I lose count every day of the amount of times I have to play it for her!! :)

Peita - posted on 09/03/2011

Babies :-) Pictures of, dolls, clothes, real babies, she even gets excited about seeing babies on the nappy boxes lol!!! The other thing is anything animal but usually dogs!!! I'm sure it will all change again in a few months though!!!

Shelby - posted on 09/02/2011

Elmo, Dora the explorer and Kittys especially. Every time we leave the in-laws house she has a fit crying " Itty, Itty" ( her word for kitty) and cries until we are home because she thinks the kitty is hers. Now every cat she sees she freaks out saying itty and chases after it.

Annie - posted on 09/01/2011

My son is almost two. He talks and sakes about dogs everywhere we go! He is also obsessed with Curious George. I have an Ipad app and have to hide my pad so that he won't trow a fit to watch it.

Emily - posted on 09/01/2011

My daughter is Obsessed with TOILETS!! she loves to touch it everytime we go to the bathroom! i don't know how to break her of it lol!!

Tanya - posted on 09/01/2011

My daughter is obsessed with stones. She goes ga ga for stones! She puts them into bowls, buckets, cups, between couch cushions, anywhere! Walking to the Park is like a field trip every day lol.

Kathy - posted on 08/31/2011

My oldest has three big obsessions. Tinkerbell, trains, and digging machines. They are so exciting to her!

Stifler's - posted on 08/31/2011

Anything that isn't a toy!

Ashley - posted on 08/31/2011

Alaya likes to touch her eye with tags on her blankets. I've tried and tried to stop this. But when I take it away or cut it off she find toys to poke with.

Shelly - posted on 08/31/2011

my 21m lb is obsessed with Mater from cars movie and any car in fact ive even had to do his room out with cars, he wakes up in the morning and if im lucky he says mommy otherwise its Car, he permantly wants to be in the car and play with cars

Alison - posted on 08/30/2011

My 2 yr old thought he was a puppy for a week or two. He would lick us and go crawling around panting. He still likes dogs and cars and bikes and trains etc. He can pick them out with an eagle eye.

Gabrielle - posted on 08/30/2011

horses!!

Ashley - posted on 08/30/2011

My soon is obsessed with trains my mom lives by train tracks that how he got started into the whole trains. Everytime he wakes up and I get him dressed he says chooo choo because thats what he wants to wear and i put him in it!

Maggie - posted on 08/29/2011

mooing lol....hes gets all his toys thinking they are elephants. He loves cats and dogs too tho and just sits with them and babbles

Toni - posted on 08/28/2011

F loves moons, he's really dissapointed when it's not out, and smiles pointing when it is. He spots them in books, sees them in every white circle he sees.

Gilda - posted on 08/27/2011

Yes, my son goes crazy for the microwave lol he hears it start up and he runs to it. Gladly I have it on the counter but he trys to reach for it, ohh and he loves phones.

Cyndi - posted on 08/26/2011

My 20 month old goes crazy for trucks (which in his mind is anything on wheels). He cant say motorcycle very well so he just makes a motor sound with his lips when he sees one of those. When we drive in the car he spends the whole time pointing out every other car on the road yelling truck! truck! truck! I'm sure next week it will be something new. I love watching his little mind work and how he gets so excited. What a great age! :-)

Ashley - posted on 08/25/2011

My daughter is the same way with puppies. Haha she says puppies like 50 times a day.

Mary - posted on 08/24/2011

My son is obsessed with cars. He plays with cars all day, and won't get to sleep at night unless he has a few cars lined up on his pillow so he can look at them as he falls asleep. If he sees a car (on tv or in real life) he yells car really loudly over and over.

Jane - posted on 08/24/2011

My son has been obsessed with construction equipment ever sine he found out it exists. My daughter has been more interested in why people do the things they do and simply enjoys being with people.

Chelsea - posted on 08/24/2011

My son is almost 20 months and he has been obsessed with animals since he was born.He will run after a bird if we are outside, and walk up to any dog! Which kinda scares me. He loves any animal!

Hanna - posted on 08/22/2011

Yes! My son is obsessed with electronics! He goes nuts for anything with buttons and/or lights or sound. We have to tell our friends to hide their iPhones when they come over to visit because he will grab it and run off with it refusing to give it back even resorting to a tantrum!

Laurie - posted on 08/22/2011

We are watching Tractor's constantly. You Tube, TV.. My son gets so excited when he sees one that he literally stops breathing and screams "tractor!!!" It's pretty cute. He loves them.

Amelia - posted on 08/21/2011

Sounds exactly like my daughter! She loves kitties! Gotta show her "kitty cat dance" on YouTube she goes nuts

Aimee - posted on 08/21/2011

My 20 month old daughter is OBSESSED with...fish!! Absolutely anything & everything to do with fish so I 100% relate to ur daughters obsession with cats haha...at least cats r cute!!

Laura - posted on 08/20/2011

my son is obsessed with cars, from the minute he opens his eyes hes walking round with a car in each hand, he takes 4 to bed and lines them up under his pillow, his favourite words are cars and momo's and he loves to stand at the window watching the cars go past...completely crazy about them i didnt encourage this either it just started :)

Genieve - posted on 08/19/2011

Trucks! He just loves trucks. He'll wake up in the morning, take out his soother and look at me and say "camion!" which is french for truck. It's hilarious. He even makes engine sounds now with his throat. It has also grown now to include basically anything that has a motor and moves lol

Heather - posted on 08/18/2011

My youngest is obsessed with shoes, any kind or size, she is my second child out of 4 girls that is obsessed w/shoes. I can't get her to take them off when we come in the house, when someone comes over to our house she will put their shoes on and wear them around our house. My other Daughter that loves shoes is getting better about it, but has taken 4 years, she still loves shoes, and is very picky about which ones she will wear for the day.

Darlene - posted on 08/17/2011

Airplanes!! We just took him on his first airplane ride, though he was already into them. He was soooo excited!!