3.5 year old sniffing his fingers constantly - please tell me it's just a phase!

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He's been doing this for 2 or 3 weeks now. Started when we bought scented wipes by mistake but now he seems to do it all the time, sometimes even putting them down his pants and saying "smell,they're not stinky!" . Generally he just holds both sets of fingers up onder his nose like a squirrel holding a nut and inhales quickly 3 times. It seems almost compulsive and it's getting very weird. Please tell me you're well adjusted child grew out of the same thing within a few weeks.

My DS2 is reasonably well-adjusted (touch wood!) and he does go through stages of having weird tics like this, although he generally doesn't seem to know he's doing it - the current one is that he sort of wipes his nose and bares his teeth (looks divine as you can imagine) and if I mention it he looks baffled. He's 13 and most of the time he doesn't do things like this.

DS1 is now 18 and completely ticless but he had some shockers as a little boy and they used to come and go too. So I think it's sort-of-normal.

HTH

My ds is 4.9 and he has had a few odd tics. He's done blinking too much, pushing back his head to look up constantly and now we have a strange clicky/swallowing in the back of the throat sound that started when he had a cold but has continued much longer than the actual cold.

It's so frustrating and I want to bellow STOP IT. But I beleive ignoring is the best course of action!

My dd is 4 next week and she is constantly biting her lips, or pushing the side of her mouth with her fingers so she can bite the inside of her mouth. I hate it but I think is a sort of tic and will pass.

DH and I were talking tonight about taking him somewhere with lots of different smells like a herbalist or a perfumery so he can have some fun doing his smelling in public appropriately. Guess he'll grow out of this weirdness and into anpother one soon enough.