Embarassing DD behaviour

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DD is 22 months, she has a favourite cuddly toy dog which goes most places with her. For a little while she has discovered it feels nice if she lies face down on top of the dog and rubs herself up and down on him. She used to do this in her cot when she couldn;t get to sleep. More recently she has wanted to do it more often, particularly when tired. She's taken to lying on the sofa in the lounge on top of a cushion and the dog and can while away a good the 30 mins.

My issue is that the last 2 times she has done it have been when we have company, and there is nothing we can do to stop her, we've tried distracting her, she looks up smiles and then carries on regardgless, or picking up so she can't carry on, then we just get a monumental tantrum.

Any ideas on how we can stop this behaviour, she can carry on as she likes in private, but I have to do some thing about her doing this in public.

No tips, but watching with interest because my DD (28 months) loves to wiggle her tummy button with one hand (as a comfort thing - she often does it while sucking the thumb on her other hand), and if she's wearing a skirt or dress she'll hitch it up in order to do it, which to be honest doesn't look great in public.

At the moment I'm just ignoring it and hoping no one notices!

no idea how to stop this but my god daughter did it at about that age for as few months but i can't recall her doing it much past 2.5 and she never does it now (3). god daughter did it on the stairs at home and on the edge of sofas in coffee shops!

My DD (now 2.5) has a toy dog and she rubs it on her face. She is not allowed to take it out the house or have it out when people are around, not because it is embarassing but because she could loose it or she will tantrum if another child takes it. Could you just have a new rule about when the dog is allowed out?

This afternoon I got desperate and lined up some cushions in front of her and said she was having a rest

I do try and restrict the dog, but I am having big issues trying to restrict the dummy as well (that's a whole seperate thread) and the dog is usually requested with the dog. 90% of the time with the dog this wasn't an issue, but just at the moments you really don't want it to happen.

We have several dogs in case of loss!

My Ds did this with an elephant, we made a rule eventually he wasn;t allowed to bring eletrump (his name not ours) downstairs so he alwasy "did it" in his bedroom, when he was a bit older we explained that he could do that but it was a private thing ....

How do I leave my DD's tummy button at home?! Or her twiddling fingers?!

Gloves ? all in ones ?