Is this strange for two and a half year old to say ?

[wilver]

I think it's probably normal, but I've read some threads about similar stuff on here and people did show concern, so I'll just explain.

Two and a half year old often touches down there when not wearing a nappy or at nappy change and says ' don't touch it '

I don't in any way, just to clean and put cream on. I think it's possible that her dad has told her not to touch there when she's done so with dirty hands perhaps during a nappy change.

I am guessing that's where it comes from, rather than something happening at nursery ? It's hard to say. Or am I being completely crazy to be a little bit curious about why she says that ?

Did / do your kids say that? It's probably completely normal.

Could she have some discomfort? Painful kind I mean

Very possible. Occasionally her skin is a bit irritated

My DS would say this because we would say it. He went through a stage of immediately grabbing down there when his nappy came off and covering his hands (and subsequently everything else) in shit. We'd say not to touch it, he learnt the phrase.

Oh yes you are reminding me of something that's happening quite frequently at the moment !!! It's this !

What? The situation you described in your OP is the same as that poster replied. Strange thread

haha yep. One of those moments where I had to re-read to make sure I didn’t misunderstand.

What? How could uou forget that?

So you have remembered something that you yourself described twelve minutes earlier?

I don’t think you have anything to be concerned.

I’m not being funny but if a 2 and a half year old was being abused at nursery it would be happening in a very sly way that they don’t understand and wouldn’t think to say no to.

In my OP I meant when she touches herself with dirty hands.. like not washed hands.

Then I remembered that she frequently gets poo on her hands during nappy changes nowadays too and that I've been saying ' don't touch it' even more recently because of the poo on her hands.

I wasn't thinking about that when I wrote the OP. I was just thinking when her hands are generally unclean, but not covered in poo because she touches the poo when we change her nappy. If that makes sense ! Probably doesn't.

Can anyone hear an echo…?! 😂

I understood what you meant OP. Glad you've resolved the mystery. Perhaps start saying "don't touch until you're clean" or something so she knows that she is actually allowed to touch her own bottom when it's not dirty? Don't want to set her up to have negative associations about her body.

Good point.