Child won't stop chewing on my slippers

[gertrudepeterson]

Am I being unreasonable?
My DS (6) has always loved to try new food. But it's gone a bit far to him not even trying real food. I bought a new pair of slippers in the primark sale a while back, and he gained a fascination with them, theyre suede/leather and i've been catching him chomping on them a few times. Honestly! As you can guess I'm not very impressed. My DS says "mummy you're being silly!" I don't think i am. SLIPPERS?!

Advice? Or has anyone experienced this?

My DS chews my hair. He has lots of sensory interests so I think it's just part of that.

You are NOT being unreasonable. My 17 year old daughter could not help but chew on her slippers until she was 15 years old. The way I got her to stop was making her food shaped like slippers and slowly exposing her to edible food. I slowly changed the shape of it so that eventually she was just eating normal food, but beware now she will only eat circular foods.

an alternative approach is spraying the slippers with pesticide so that they do not go near them!!! Hope this helps.

My dd used to eat insoles of shoes so I feel your pain, my dh would find chunks missing. She was only little but wtf. The older one used to enjoy a tasty treat of dried up contact lenses my dh had dumped as he went to sleep! 🤢 mmmm salty. Ours both grew out of it, we didn’t make a big thing of it just said it might make your tummy sore and explained your body isn’t built to process such things so you could block up your tubes or make yourself feel a bit poorly and it seemed to work, I hope that works for you too, good luck!

Does he have Pica?