My 6yo is carrying a bag of coffee around

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Has anyone's DC got attached to a random object at this age?

MIL gave me a packet of coffee to pass on to a relative yesterday. Now DS says he loves it and wants to keep it

When dd was 6 she decided a handful of dried kidney beans were her new friends. She named each one, and kept them for months, in her pocket, on her bedside, they went with her everywhere!

DD has unpaired and named all her socks. She then cries a lot because she has cold feet but she cant wear her friends.

She's generally a weird child with an assortment of odd items she will randomly decide to take to bed.

The 6 year old also gets attached to cardboard boxes. I have to wait until she's at school to put the recycling out or she tries to fetch half of it back in.

Not weird as such but DH had a spare lanyard (the thing to hold his work security pass) and I shortened it for DD to play with. She now insists on wearing it all day every day because she's 'going to the office'. Followed by "can we play offices?"

DS using the cutted off piece as a fishing rod and 'catches fish' over the sofa arm. Until the 'fish' (a plastic tractor) flies up and whacks him in the face. Cry, settle, rinse and repeat.

Aww these are so cute!
I've gone blank now and can't think of anything weird my dc got attached to, I'm sure they did though.

My mum always tells me about when I was little and carried an empty bottle around wrapped in a blanket and told everyone it was my baby

DS was in Gt Ormond St hospital for surgery & when they were preparing him to go to theatre, they suggested I bring along a treasured comfort item for when he woke up in recovery. I brought it along & when the nurse asked for it as I left, I handed it to her. She repeated to me, slowly, that it should have been a "toy or something he loved" - it was. He carried it around all the time in his pudgy fist. It was a wooden beater from a xylophone.

@Lollypalooza oh dear if you are in NI and it was 3 or 4 years ago that was my dd

I love the sprout story. I really hope it was mini Loyaultemelie.

I met a six-year-old who kept on and on wanting to wear the mask that had been used for a game of pin the tail, for days after the game was over! She had to deal with the dilemma of wanting to wear it all the time, and "but I can't see with it on!". She had to settle for wearing it on her forehead, and putting it over her eyes only when she didn't need to see.

I bought DS1a Poundland Santa costume for nursery one year. he refused to take it off . You couldn't wash them as they'd fall apart so I had to keep buying them. He slept in them. Nursery had words with me asking me to put him in proper clothes and I had to explain it was his choice. When he was still wearing it in January strangers would stop me in the street and tell me off. But he was happy in it, so why not?

Sorry Loyaultemelie not NI! Love that there’s another sprout-pet owner out there though. It was actually a few years ago and the girl was in Nursery class, she’s now in Year 3 (I’m still at the same school), I might see if she remembers!

We had ‘Elsa rock’. A stone from the garden with some blue jewels stuck on it. My DD 3 carried it everywhere and takes it to bed. It has its own bed made from a small Tupperware tub lined with kitchen roll.

My DS is a big fan of the silicon pastry brush

This is so outing but my son goes into his nanny's fridge every time we visit and takes out one cherry tomato and carries it round with him until he breaks it. He's gone to sleep with it in his hand! (Aware of choking danger, he never eats them and doesn't put things in his mouth. We take it away once he's asleep)

One of Mine had a favourite potato for a short while. He even took it to toddler group & to visit mil

Once it starting sprouting, funny enough Mr potato was no longer wanted

As a 2yr old, my son (now 21) wore a bucket on his head everywhere he went, for about 6 months. It was see-through red plastic, and he used to sob pitifully if I tried to stop him wearing it.

My little cousin is amazing for these. So far my favourites have included a brick and a U-bend.

Since summer my 2 year old has carried around a mini empty bottle of hand gel I’m not sure what the fascination is but god forbid if anyone were to touch it or go to pick it up thinking it needed to go in the bin!

One if mine used to lug around and take to bed a Bananaguard.

They also liked playing with "mobile stones" - stones with phone buttons drawn on.

Mobile stones

Dc4(4) still has a thing for fucking tile spacers he has a pile on his shelf. He insisted on taking some to Turkey with us, in his hand luggage, in the summer. The security man on the way home thought it was hilarious though.

I love this thread blatantly place marking to come back later.

I thought my DS was weird because he named a blanket 'Mexico'. ("I can't go to sleep yet mummy because I don't know where Blankie and Mexico are.")

Not an object but my daughter had an invisible friend who lived in a treehouse in our garden (we don’t even have a tree, let palone a treehouse).

Invisible friend had a very specific made up name, and she talked about him non stop. One day we were at my parents house, and she was beside herself with excitement when she found a picture of him on the front of a magazine. It was definitely him, there couldn’t have been a mistake.

Turns out, her invisible friend was Gordon Ramsay.

Turns out, her invisible friend was Gordon Ramsay.

@UnitedRoad that's one of my favourite things ever on Mumsnet! I hope you told her to get her mate to rustle up some gourmet grub.

I had a relative's child, then aged 2, staying with me for a weekend once and she picked up a book I was reading and refused to let go of it. It had a picture of flowers on the front but was a detective novel about a serial killer. Can't remember the title but it definitely contained the word Murder. She wanted to take it out with us for the day- I tried to swap it for one of her books and for another less gruesomely titled book of mine but she wouldn't have any of it. We ended up taking it out wrapped in a scarf (so it wouldn't get cold of course) and had to leave it in the car 'to have a sleep'.

Mine has been carrying around the letter L all day (from my Noel Christmas decorations).

My dd once carried a bag of her hair around with her. I'd accidentally cut too much off and she was upset so put it in a carrier bag (think she was about 7 years old) One day we broke down and the police had to help us move the car. She was clinging onto her bag of hair and I was worried they was going to ask what was in the bag and then think she was some weird child (which she was) 😅