4 year old can't keep still!!!

[MummyJetsetter]

My 4 year old ds seems different to other kids and I'm worried it will affect things as he gets older.

He can never keep still, he's always fidgeting and jigging about, literally can't stand still. Walks on his toes skips instead of walks. It all affects his balance so he falls over a lot. He's also obsessive with things, for example he's constantly talking about sweets, we were going on holiday recently and he said does that mean I can have sweets! Everything is about sweets, he loves healthy food so I don't worry about that just bored of the sweety talk all the time. There are other obsessive things like his favourite colour. He doesn't play with toys properly and just breaks things by messing with them.

Does this sound like normal behaviour? He's such a sweet boy, speech is exceptional and he's very smart and loving.

We find ourselves nagging him because he does silly things so often and then we feel bad!

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We'll, if it makes you feel any better my 4yr old (5 at the end of the month) is pretty much the same! He rarely sits still (he is climbing all over me and the sofa while watching cartoons at the moment), he literally can't stand still on the kitchen floor but slips and slides all over it and usually ends up falling over. He also wanders about on tiptoes and obsesses about various stuff - we are just coming out of an obsession about visiting Cars Land in Disney Land California, he has been asking me every day as soon as he wakes up if we are going to Cars Land!
I also find that he doesn't really play with toys, but he loves buying them!

So as to whether it is normal I am not sure but you are not alone!

I have just this minute yelled at my nearly 4 year old to stand still as he's not blooming tigger and that thumping is going right through me. So whether it's normal or not you aren't alone. Said almost 4 year old is glaring at me with hurt eyes and saying 'mummy shouted'.

explains why some children wriggle so much.

It applies to children with neurodevelopmental disorders like ASD but I think it also applies, to some extent, to lots of NT pre-schoolers.

When you say he breaks stuff, does he do it deliberately? My ds does because he wants to know how it's put together. So he now has Lego which is meant to be fiddled with and he loves it.
He also gets obsessed - chocolate, cakes etc.
He can sit still (if playing with Lego) but he is like a whirlwind sometimes.
Maybe you need to find things to suit him - certain toys or activities.

Thanks Floridagirl & holiday armadillo, reassuring that it could just be normal. Yes we tell him to stop it and he gets upset and asks for an apology. He can actually sit still when glued to tv but he'll sometimes stand holding a cupboard door and it opens and closes slightly making a really annoying little banging noises!

The great hunt, no he doesn't break things on purpose he just fiddles with things and plays with them in a way that they shouldn't be played with, for instance he collects these little trash pack figures, they're tiny and made of squishy silicone and he's twisted some and a bit snaps off, he also puts them under the door and pulls the door over the top of them and they end up all scruffy and he gets upset that they're broken.

He loves board games and for about 4 months we were playing about 25 games of peppa pig snakes & ladders every day! Thank god that's fizzled out now!

Thanks goldmandra I've had a watch and it's hard to say whether it applies or not but interesting to keep in mind for future reference.