DD (2.8) is obsessed with the feeling of T-shirt collars - anyone else's kids have weird fetishes like this? Is it normal?

[Astrophe]

She just started obsessively fiddling with t-shirt collars over the past 3 months or so - she says she likes 'the lines'. She'll wander around the house feeling her collar, or if she is not wearing a t-shirt she'll fiddle with her baby brother's, or get a shirt from her cupboard and drag it round!

She also started thumb sucking a few months earlier, having never thumb sucked before.

A few other things tell me she is a bit insecure atm - she has bad dreams occasionally and has started coming into our bed at night, and she is displaying lots of attention seeking behaviour - tipping over food/drinks, pushing her brother etc.

Apart from there things, and most of the time she is bright and happy, but the sum of these things has got me a bit worried.

Am I being silly? Does anyone else have any experience of these things?

Thanks

oh the are funny little people aren't they

Come to think of it, DD started twiddling her hair the other day (her little friend does it, and its the same friend she copied thumb sucking one day...and thats what started the habit)...um...anyway, she was twisting her hair and I told her if she continued I'd cut it off ...I know, mean mummy, but one more habit would be more than I can stand!

my 2 year old is tag-obsessed. she lifts her own t-shirt to find the tags, she reaches inside the back of my top to rub the tags, she just likes the feel, its even better if she can loop the tag round her finger. she has 2 big taggies, a travel taggie and free access to t-shirt tags lol.

are taggies those little blankets with all the tags on? maybe I should get one for DD - do they have ribbed tags on, or only the silky ones?

i think the cheaper one i have has ribbed tags as well as silky.

do you have a link by any chance?

www.label-label.com/ lots of different textures o nthat one.

www.cn-sales.co.uk/prodview.asp?FID=70

got mine from this site

thanks misdee you are a doll

dd3 also has the leg warmers from that site, the bumblebee ones are cool (but pricey)

love the leg warmers - when do you use them though?

Does the label-label brand one have ribbed tags then (sorry, am a bit confused which is which )

Up o the age of 5 or 6 my method of falling asleep was to take a long, long piece of toilet paper to bed, tear it up and roll it into tiny balls which would be scattered all over my eiderdown.
Every night.

I have a very patient mother.

ediemay

my ds is 2,9 and has fiddled with hair, twiddled, twisted, hidden in mine, it drives me mad sometimes, well quite often tbh, I don't mind him fiddling with his hair, it is my hair and his sticky fingers that I am not so keen on, poor boy

this one here (i have taken it from dd3 cot, so will have to replace it) has a ribbed cottony tag on it a velvety feeling tag,a few silkies(dd3 favourites) and a few textured as well.

we use leg warmers when she wears a skirt as she doesnt like tights, plus they are easier than tights as dd3 wears cloth nappies, which can make her bottom very big lol

thank you