Did your DCs ever get strangely attached to certain objects?

[dodi1978]

I am just wondering... my DS, 13 months, is currently absolutely obsessed with a picture on our mantelpiece. The picture is of myself, his dad and him when he was just a few weeks old. We have to take the picture of the mantelpiece as soon as we come into the lounge in the morning, and as soon as we get home (he points to it and says "da da" and can get really annoyed if we don't get it down to look at it). Last week we had to put it onto the kitchen table for dinner... he wouldn't leave it behind!

What have your kids got strangely attached to?

When my cousin was a baby he got very attached to one particular spatula.

Iheart that's so funny - my DS loved a spatula at the same age, took it to bed with him. He's grown out if it a bit a year later but still fishes it out of the drawer from time to time!

A certain toy that's now threadbare and minging after being dragged everywhere we've ever been. Now she's at school I did the awful thing of sending it with the fairys and she got a new more grown up toy.
Second child likes playing with and carrying his fork everywhere he goes I swear I feed him

Does the dog kennel count?

My twins have an obsession with it. I send them out to play and I can guarantee they've kicked the dog out and are sat inside playing with their toys. If they're upset, or tired they ask to sit in the kennel with their blanket and on many occassion I've found them taking their naps in there.

DD had a weird obsession with a whisk when she was 11months and she would not let go!

DS had a toy upright hoover that he obsessed over between about 18 months and 2 years. He used to take it up to be with him and fall asleep holding its handle.

DD got strangely attached to an empty Quavers packet a couple of months ago. It fell on the floor without me realising and a kind passerby picked it up to pop it into the bin. Cue broken hearted hysterics from DD.

DS1 used to take the j and q from our foam bath letters to bed with him.

DS had a bin obsession when he was about 18 months old that lasted about 3 months. It applied to all bin types - wastepaper, kitchen, wheelie, skip, bins for dog poo, bins at the shopping centre... Any bin he saw was pointed at, greeted and preferably tapped. If it had a lid, he had to be lifted up to open it (not a nice experience for poor Mummy, esp with the dog poo bins). Sooo glad he is over that now.

The obsession extended to rubbish trucks as well. You wouldn't believe how many videos there are on youtube of rubbish trucks emptying the bins. They were great for calming him down if he had hurt himself.

There was a fantastic thread somewhere on mn a while back about children with vacuum cleaner obsessions. I still laugh when I remember it.

Ds2, rejected the existing mountain of cuddly toys and carried round a 2 litre diet coke bottle (empty). He'd cuddle it like a teddy bear...

My youngling went through a fruit phase.. He would have a banana, orange, apple and pineapple. Not to eat or anything... He would take them to bed.

I put a stop to that one as fruit goes soggy man.

At the minute it's clocks. He hunts them out in shops and there's a constant ticka ticka sound around the house atm

My 3 year old has 3 bears like goldilocks. Lesser bear, morer bear and one unnamed. They are carried everywhere along with a broken set of salter kitchen scales and a shiny (any random piece of nicked jewellery) tis vair cute but annoying when she sits on your knee with all of the above

For a while Ds1 insisted in carrying a big puzzle piece around with him

He also had an obsession with a phot on our sideboard so I bought one of those little plastic photo albums and filled it with pictures of our family, my sister's dog, his friends etc. He was thrilled with it.

My friends daughter around the same age, as attached to an egg, and insisted it went everywhere with her, including in the bath and to bed. Her mum cooked it in the end because she was so worried about it breaking in her bed at night.

These stories are so cute - anyone got any more?

OP your 13 month old sounds so sweet saying dada to the picture

Berries and stones. At the age of 9yrs.

Did a clear out if ds room just before they went back to school. In his sock drawer I found a sandwich bag of mouldy round things. I could not fathom what it was at all. (Apart from gross.) Turns out the dcs had been using berries from our laurel tree as money during a game. Ds decided to keep them in his drawer and was distraught when I wanted to get rid of them due to the mould. Couldn't perceive that they were no longer useful for the game and there was more berries on the tree.

I then proceeded to his pants drawer where I found 42, I did actually count them, stones of our drive! Yet again distraught at the thought of putting them back on the drive.

Ds is usually quite good at decluttering in his stuff. I can't for the life of me figure these two things out. Otherwise neurotically or i would be concerned i was missing the bigger picture. Also could not articulate why he was so upset at getting rid. Still baffles me now.

What didn't ds get attached to (and insist in taking everywhere, including bed)... The fireman Sam ball was a bit annoying for a while as he kept dropping it and it would roll away at the supermarket or similar. But the weirdest was the Halloween pumpkin. OBSESSED. took to bed. Once it started to smell we had to do something. He tracked it down in the garden recycling....!

A red, cardboard fish about the size of the palm of his hand. He wasn't very verbal but used to get really upset if the tail got bent and would demand a new one. I had to buy a stack of red cardboard to make them out of. When he could talk he told me it was because they couldn't swim with a bent tail.