Your children's obsessions!

[toomanyshoes]

Clothes, food, toys, anything, what is it and how do you deal with it?

My 3 year old is obsessed with tutus and I mean OBSESSED. Sure it was cute for the first 4 weeks but months on its just ridiculous.

And its one tutu in particular, a trelise cooper (don?t mess with my tutu) skirt we picked up on sale ages ago! It?s a full on, stick out, antique ivory coloured and she wants to wear it 24/7.

I put her into her PJ?s last night, put their dirty washing in the laundry basket, then when I got up in the middle of the night I caught her wearing it over the PJ?s asleep in it!

I know it?s not a big deal but it?s getting a little frustrating and I don?t want her to be so attached to something which she will grow out of. There will be tears lol.

So what have your kids been bonkers for? And how did you wean them off it?

[Nadine216]

LOL awwww cute, mom!! I'm sure she'll grow out of it and tears are part of life so is realising that wearing a tutu 24/7 is "dorky" (just wait till she's a teen)

Why not think about taking her to ballet class?? That way you can let her wear her tutu's at an appropriate time.

I think my dd is going to be a neat freak!! And that would be my doing. She wipes her mouth after every bite, asks me to wash her hands constantly and yesterday she was at playgroup and they had to stand on foamshapes ... she picked her's up and told me it's dirty, procceded to wipe it off with her hand and THEN she would stand on it. She also wiped her hands on her pants afterwards and gave me a "hands is dirty" look

Goodluck

[Elly-May]

My 3 year old is obsessed with Captain Feathersword. When I say obsessed I mean OBSESSED. He talks like him and if we call him by his name he wont respond until we call him captain.

My 7yo loves cars.

[AliBaby]

these are so cute!!!

[Snowy Love]

My nearly 3 yo is obsessed with collecting "Cars" movie cars - "What are we missing Mummy?" It doesn't help that DH is reliving his Star Wars figure collecting childhood, and loves the search.

[mbear]

My 3 girls are obsessed with Ariel - we have all 3 DVDs, 3 ariel dolls, ariel books, ariel dress up costumes....so cute hearing my 20month old saying "aril, aril'......love it.

[Inertia]

My nearly 3 yo is obsessed with collecting "Cars" movie cars - "What are we missing Mummy?" It doesn't help that DH is reliving his Star Wars figure collecting childhood, and loves the search.

OMG! I have so many of those things around the house! Apparently he is still missing Tex from his collection. I keep saying it doesnt matter because he lost lizzie months ago. "Then we have to buy another lizzie too mum"...... I have spent a small fortune on these cars only to have Sam and Harry fight over who is playing with who!



Harry however is obsessed with movies with talking animals. I swear he must think there is something wrong with our dog. Ice Age, Madagascar, Dr Dolittle, Over the Hedge, Bee Movie, Finding Nemo, Garfield... Every night there is some talking animal movie on in the bedroom taking over MY laptop! Don't turn it off - you wont get any sleep. He only just fell asleep 30 minutes ago... watching Madagascar 2. Oh, and he has cute little names for them all too. That one is "Ooh Ahh". The first one is Bobo. We still haven't worked out why. Then there is "Where da baby", "Scrat", "Line, Line, Line", "R.J", "Buzzy", "Momo".....

The only movie he watches without talking animals.... talking Cars...

[smiles4u]

Oh toomanyshoes your DD sounds like my recently turned 3year old DD ... the past 2mths i cannot go near Target ... i mean even within the same shopping block without her begging & pleading with me to take her to Target ... & if i don't she cries instantly & then starts howling at the next stage if i say NO to going there ... so off i go into Target & we head for the girl's clothing section where there are 'princess dresses' ... and yes, she has to take one off the rack put it on over her clothes right there then stand in front of the mirror about 2metres away from the rack & then she DANCES & i mean really gets into the dancing like she is in some sort of trance to the music coming form the PA speaker right above the mirror area. Yes, i let her dance to one song only then it's take the dress off & put it back on the hanger & it's rack. Then we LEAVE Target. ... Yes, that's her fix for that day & her obsession

(My DD's middle name is Elise after my sister but i wanted to name her middle name " Trelise " - would you believe it, LOL ... But DP was right Elise is my sister's name after all )

[*charmalea*]

oh my DS is OBSESSED with MATCH BOX CARS ...

oh lordy there everywhere !!! i even found one in my handbag tonight , and i find them in the dishwasher , the microwave and in the toilet sometimes !!!!!!!

he has so many !!!!

[Glamourcide]

oh lordy there everywhere !!! i even found one in my handbag tonight , and i find them in the dishwasher , the microwave and in the toilet sometimes !!!!!!!

he has so many !!!!

My house is like that for dummies (known around here as 'muckies' - DH called them that as a little 'un)!! I find them EVERYWHERE - in my undies drawer, in the centre console of the car, my handbag, in the cats' food bowl, under the kitchen table, behind the TV, under beds, in the yard/garden beds, we even found one in the letterbox the other day!!
It drives me mad - because then when I go looking for one to put her down for a nap, there are none to be found ANYWHERE!!

[Nelle]

Anything that rotates. Wheels, helicopters, mixers, saucepan lids, deadbolt locks (once he's found the keys), screws (once he's found the screwdriver), lids, globes.

Also pegs on the clotheshorse, pump action bottles and sprays, and plugging things into powerpoints.

We've traded speech for fine motor skills here I think.

[~shazz~]

my 3 year old is a Buzz light year nut and i mean bad he went through a stage over christmas where he commandeered the tv and watch the movies 1 & 2 over and over and over we can all say the movies word for word now he thinks he is buzz and jumps off things yelling to infinity and beyond ... cute ... we have a little joke with him that he is woody not buzz and he cracks it and says i am buzz liker( thats what he calls him) you are woody he went through a stage where he would only wears buzz clothes ( you know how hard they are to find ) and has all the dolls though i'm still on the look out for slinky dog.