They're funny little souls. No doubt he will be a bit of a ratbag for a time, but I found it passed really quickly.
Darcy was walking with a GF of mine when we were out when Nate was little and she called the wrist strap her 'Darcy strap', so Darc wanted to hang onto that of course, then she showed her ours and she was happy after that....we just directed her need for control to a positive rather than a very frustrating runnaway negative.