This is my first post, my toddler is batty.

[mysonisadervish]

Hi, I have usually relied on the archives to get any answers to my queries but have drawn a blank with this one.

My son who is 19months old started to walk at about 13 months old but lately he seems to be getting rather clumsy - however his favourite thing to do is the spin and spin arounf quite literally until he's flat on the hard wooden floor or backwards into the dog basket - each time there are tears, cuts and bruises but he won't stop.

This probably sounds quite funny but I am at my wits end I have tried padding everything out/putting a bike helmet on him to lessen injuries/just leaving him to it but I get the same results.

I'm running out of arnica and plasters.

Any takers?

DD does the same, she seems to find it funny until she falls over, i try to distract her but she doesnt take much notice. Shes been doing it for a few months but doesnt do it as much anymore, maybe its just a stage they go through.

all i can say is he'l probably grow out of it.

but could possibly suggest its for attention? maybe he feels you make a fuss when he gets bumped or cut so he does it for cuddles and kisses.

not meaning you dont give these but trying to help, please dont take this as an attack.

Check diet for E621, and anything else from the "dirty dozen".

Then pick him up each time he starts to do it and put him down on a chair and say. "That hurts you, we'll do something else".

Whenever my dd's were going through a growth spurt they would become really clumsy, almost as though their body was growing too quickly for the brain to keep up!

My dd2 is 2.6 and her favourite thing to do in the garden is spinning round the rotary dryer then trying to run down the garden - falling into everything.

Can you surruptiously video tape him doing it? He WILL grow out of it and it will be a great thing to embarrass him with when he's 18!

In the meantime keep on with the arnica - sorry I wasn't much use was I?

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My DD 22 mths has just started to do this - as you say everytime she falls over and hurts herself - but gets up to do it again. I have tried to distract her as soon as she starts and gone and tickled her etc she hasn't done it for a day or so, so am hoping that it won't become an obession.

I think they all do it, distraction is the best answer.

think its the same thing as head banging - the more you give attention the more they will do it - better mummy giving cuddles for this than her washing the pots - or whatever

my wee sis did this when she was about 2-3 wouldnt stop then split her head and never done it since she still has a big scar on her head and whenever neices or nephews do it she tells them about her scar

dd (21 mnths) does this too till she falls over and then gets up and warnders round bumping into things. She thinks its funny. Seems to be one of those phases. We dont give her attention for falling over when she does it, just say opps a daisy and leave her to it. Shes growign out of it now.

Some of mine have loved doing this, too. Think they just like the feeling of being dizzy. My dad even jokingly commented 'Look, seems like some of us might be born enjoying the feeling of being drunk!'
Mine grew out of it - although the 2yo still does it occasionally.