Is it normal/odd that a 19 month DS isn't really interested in cars?

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I see boys everywhere holding onto little cars or pushing them all over. DS just isn't that interested. He never has been. he'll play for a bit with his 'garage' and push a few trains etc around but with little interest. No interest in 'wheels' etc

I hate that I'm thinking so stereotypically - but I'd assumed he'd love them...

Anyone else whose DS wasn't interested - or developed an interest later?

An interest much later in my DS - just turned 3 and has been given a bag of matchbox vintage 70s cars. In a week it's a sudden obsession, but all his choice really.

DS has never been interested in anything with wheels, couldn't care less about diggers, trains or anything to do with them (so a Thomas and Fireman Sam free house, thank feck)

Yes completely, ds only interested a little now at 2.5.

Mine (2.10) is far more interested in animals than modes of transport. Has been since an early age!

Mine wasn't. Bought him a garage for his second birthday. His sister played with it and his friends who came round! Around 4 he got a bit more interested, but only as another thing to play with, no real passion.

My ds will be 10 next week and never showed any interest in cars.
He did love playing with trains as a toddler though.

Thanks all. That's good to know. Yes, I'd say he loves animals and cuddly things more. to be honest, not sure he's got any real preferences for stuff - except throwing. He loves balls.

ha ha Back2two!! That made me laugh

DS1 had a full on car obsession: for months he would do nothing other than play cars, pretend to be a car, pester and pester to be allowed to pretend to drive our actual car etc etc. He wouldn't go anyway without several toy cars in his clutches. By about 2.6 he could name almost every make of car (by their badge) - it was his party trick. But I don't think he was interested in cars at all at 19 months. One of his 2nd birthday presents was a garage, and he wasn't that interested in it at the time (although was a few months later). I am currently trying to avoid DS2 from developing a similar obsession: DS1 has finally moved on and frankly I do not want to spend another 18 months with a small child constantly chattering away in the background about petrol, diesel, gear sticks, exhausts....

DS1 is 5 now and has never really been into cars or pushing things round.

He loves music and imaginative play.

Hes not into football either!

I think they all pick their obsession - mine is obsessed with cars and wheels, but couldn't care less about teddies, dolls, animals or whatever.

My sister's isn't into cars at all, but loves bashing things more than anything else in the world.

I don't think it's unusual at all.

As a toddler my brother was given a lovely red pedal car; he turned it upside down, spun the wheels round and round and pretended it was a sewing machine.

My ds1 liked cars among other things, ds2 isn't particularly interested. His current object of adoration is a Sylvanian families toilet.

My 19 mo DD2 loves trains. And cats. DD1 at that age loved baby dolls, still does. They like what they like: I remember feeling rather that my friend's toddler DD loved her older brother's train set, and my friend was really stressing that she wasn't into dolls.

My DS has no interest in cars. He has no interest in toys at all tbh. Unless its a toy vacuum cleaner. Real vacuum cleaners are much better, but a toy will do. He likes going to the hoover shop more than anything else (electric dept of Tesco)

I have boxes (and a garage) full of DS1s toys (Bob the builder, Roary, trainsets, Handy Manny - you name it - we bought it) and DS2 shows no interest in any of them.

He will be 3 in November. The vacuum obsession started fairly early on after the baby stage.

My ds 15 months. Has no intetest whatsoever in cars trains or anything typically boyish. Lol.
he does however have a complete obsession with teapots cups kettles and spoons...aswell as anything to do with housework....brushes wipes irons etc...im not ocd about house work so have no idea where he gets it from.
he falls asleep at night cuddling his blue teapot and the first thing he does in the morning is make everyone a cup of tea with his teaset...we call him our little domestic goddess. Haha!

DS is 5, has no interest in cars. He plays with animals, either the plastic farm animal type, or beany baby sized soft toys, and an ELC vet set. Doesn't like football either. Past favourites have been toy broom, which he used to take everywhere, toy cooker and washing machine.

My DD only like books.

That's not meant to sound twattish, she obviously isn't reading them! But she doesn't play with toys at all really, only to make a mess by pulling them out of the drawers!

I work in a nursery and some children like cars, some like dolls, some like books, some like jumping off things and screaming It's not particularly gendered actually - or at least it's more parents swapping buggys for scooters etc.

They are all different. DS1 loved them and knew all the makes. DS2 and 3 were not bothered. DS1 used to spend hours playing with them and the others didn't.

My DS is 22 months and doesn't really like any toys. He mainly likes books () or his parents' phones ().

Other interests include shifting around things filled with water, digging in the garden and rearranging the saucepan drawer.

He has a few cars/trains and will occasionally push them around but I wouldn't say he is particularly interested. So your experience doesn't seem at all odd to me.

Neither of mine were interested in cars. They loved playing with figures/role play so I think cars weren't as exciting. Nothing to worry about at all!

Ds car phase def came later than 19 months, I think he was about 2.5 when the car phase really started.

At that age he was also much more into "housey" things, yes we had the Hoover obsession too, plus the saucepans, building towers out of anything handy and knocking them over and trying to climb everywhere.

Think yourself lucky, op, and enjoy your lovely precious boy!!

My DS (18 mos) is of the jump off things and scream variety rubirosa mentions, but he does like teddies and dolls. Doesn't seem too fussed about cars/tractors etc although we don't have that many as DD was never into them and I've just handed her toys down to DS.