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Weird toddler behaviour with toy dinosaurs

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Rorpethy · 20/10/2024 21:13

So ds is 2.5. He only says a few words and is obsessed with dinosaurs. He has a few favourites that go everywhere with him but recently, the obsession with the dinosaurs has reached a new level.

So he will sit on the sofa with all the dinosaurs on his lap and with arrange them in a certain way. (Just looks like a random pile to me) He gets very upset if they don't stay the way he wants them. He points at more dinosaurs, wanting me to pass them to him but it gets to the point where there are too many and he's completely covered in them and the pile falls over and he gets upset and starts screaming. He will sit for hours doing this.

He also wants to take the dinosaurs to bed but gets really angry if they don't stay the way he wants them. He wakes up in the night to rearrange them and again starts screaming if he can't find one or if one won't go the way he wants them too. The clanking of plastic all night long is really starting to get to me.

Does anyone else's toddler do this? I feel like he is never happy any more because he is always screaming because the dinosaurs aren't doing what he wants them to do. It's really draining.

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Silverfoxlady · 21/10/2024 10:35

This might be absolutely normal, if he is feeling abnormally tired and cranky and he has a particular setup in mind. However, it sounds like he might be hyper-fixated if he does this all day, every day.

I don’t know much about this, but I suggest you talk to a health visitor or GP.

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