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My little one has the rather annoying diet of chocolate spread sandwiches, minus the crusts, and mash potatoes with chicken nuggets - drives me up the wall.

By not having their hair cut. If anyone teases them, they just shrug and counted care less. My boys have gorgeous hair

My son expresses his individuality with art. He has inherited his talent from my mother and grandmother and is a talented artist.
He finds it difficult to express himself following a head injury but through his drawings he is able to speak and convey those things that he likes and who he is.
I cannot remember a time when he hasn't had a pencil in his hand.

We have twins who spend all day every day together, our eldest of the two has cottoned on to the fact that they are in fact two separate people unlike the random strangers who constantly tell us Double Trouble and he likes a bit of alone time.
His brother is always crawling after him trying to copy him, taking his toys and annoying him but eldest DT likes to break away from his brother and do his own thing, his latest party trick is to push all their toys into a little pile to lure in his little brother in and then crawl off as fast as he can whilst his brother is distracted and play nicely by himself.
It's lovely.

My son (3) always insists on wearing a tie. It's his way of dressing smartly doesn't matter what he's wearing, jumper, football kit, trackie bottoms or shorts & t shirts he will always put a tie on.
He's gonna be quite dapper when he grows up!!

My son is 11. He knows what clothes he likes - short sleeved cotton shirts (preferably patterned - Hawaiian patterns in particular) and shorts. Now accompanied by green boots. And it doesn't matter that we live in the north and it's the winter, he still wears them at the weekend. He is quite annoyed that high school doesn't have shorts on the uniform list!

My 5 year old son is a little strange in the fact that he has to have all the buttons on his tshirts, shirts, coats etc done up all the way to the top. He doesn't understand that sometimes the top button is meant to be left open!

My son loves to wear pink - and really doesn't care what anyone in his class says. My daughter likes to be different in just about every aspect of life - she's not a sheep - never follows fads or crazes. Bless her, she says - I'm weird and I know it!

My 4 year old can predict the future. He always tells us wants going to happen. Very strange. For example - when I was 4 weeks pregnant he said "You're having a baby!" I replied "Really, what makes you say that?" His response "because you are!"
These strange conversations happen daily!

DD(6) turns anything she can lay her hands on into an artistic creation. As soon as she spots something a little bit different she will be at it with scissors, glue, pens and bits from her craft drawer and so my house is filled with the stuff.

DS(3) expresses his individuality by wearing shorts, t-shirt and no coat even in near arctic conditions.

At a reading of 'Odd Dog Out' I dodged all the toddlers throwing themselves on beanbags to get a copy for my daughter's 16th birthday. Is Loving picture books alongside all the trashy teen stuff odd? Rob Biddulph personalised it beautifully for her. Who says picture books are just for infants?

DD (2) likes to put in ALL of her hair accessories at the same time - this equates to about 14 clips, 9 baubles & a couple of headbands!!

DS (4) is very particular about organising his toys. He'll line them all up or arrange them in a certain way, sometimes spending hours doing so. I like to think he's methodical & tidy (though shame that doesn't extend to more productive things like getting ready in the mornings!)

My daughter has very strong views on what to wear - she will only wear skirts or dresses, preferably My Little Pony branded, and insists on going to school every day with brightly rainbow coloured hair bobbles, clips and hairband and My Little Pony key rings on her book bag. Everything has to be as bright and rainbow coloured as possible :)

Choosing clothes, starting with picking between 2 outfits, then choosing from their whole range of clothes still bought by you and then moving on to picking some items themselves in the shops. They come up with some wacky choices sometimes but as long as it's weather appropriate I let them get on with it.

my 5 year old telling her teacher all the gory details of life on her cattle.farm

My DD1 would wear clothes pegs in her hair and was known at nursery as Peggy Sue, Each morning she would hunt down the peg bag hidden in various places by thoughtless parents who always forgot where it was until one day 18mths later she moved onto odd socks. Just waiting for the next development phase.

my dd (8) has eaten chicken soup (homemade) for breakfast every morning for the past 3 years. In the last 3 weeks though she has gone off it (which is a shame because I have it stockpiled in the freezer!) and now eats rice and gravy for breakfast every morning!

She does have a chronic condition (missing her small intestine) which means she craves salt in particular...but also means she needs to eat lots of food in general to get the nutrition in, so we just go with the different choices :)

I let my girls choose what they wear and how their hair is done. Dd1 is very girly and loves pink, dd2 loves blue And hates girly dresses and anything in her hair.

By putting together her own very colourful outfits and doing strange things to her hair. Indeed the US label Little Mismatched is a fave.

My ds is a splendidly cheery little chap. Despite showing no signs of actually wanting to sleep in his own bed, he is otherwise an entertaining little person.

On Saturday he sang us a song all about his breakfast crumpet.
Today he has dressed as Elsa, and tried to carry me to school (he's 4) as it's my birthday so I need a treat.

He loves to wear fancy dress but as he has an older sister most of our fancy dress is princess-y, but he doesn't care and will go out wearing his princess dress. I'm dreading the day that someone tells him that boys don't do that.

My eldest wore a hat constantly for a year, it was her security blanket. I've put it in her memory box, it makes me smile just looking at it.

I've always excouraged 'eccentric' and 'quirky' in my household. In fact if someone thinks I'm weird I actually feel it is a compliment. I hope this has rubbed off on my kids to be who they are without worrying what others think. I loved it when my son asked for a pink dolls house when he was three as there was no awareness of the gender stereotyping that so sadly happens. Similarly he once went out dressed in pink and insisted that I call him 'Dora the explorer'. He also loved wearing his PJ's to pre-school. Rather than make a fuss and stop him, I was quite happy to let him - what harm would it do! The one thing I did put a stop to was when he managed to strip down to his pants in about 3 seconds flat when we were running late for pre-school one day - I did insist he would actually need to wear clothes - apart from anything else it was the middle of the winter at the time!

My DD(11)has been boxing since she was 5 and hopes to represent England at the Olympics one day. My DD (4) can sit on his hair and only does the opposite of what I ask. He only has half a heart but is the most brave and fierce person I know.

Son2 won't eat tomatoes or peppers unless they are the orange variety

Ever since she could make her opinions known my daughter has chosen her own outfits, which tend to be random and rarely match. It's not worth the battle even if I wanted to squash her own interesting sense of style.

Always wanting to wear a pair of wellington boots all year round even in the summer on a really hot day.