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<blockquote data-quote="keista" data-source="post: 519341" data-attributes="member: 11965"><p>Welcome!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I can so relate to this! Fortunately/unfortunately It's been a pretty recent development for DD1 Before she'd get obsessed with stuff, she was chronically bored - translation: she found NOTHING interesting.</p><p></p><p>These seem to be short lived obsessions. Oh heck yeah, they can be a real PITA, but I found the only real way to get rid of them is to fuel them. Build a miniature golf course in the living room with plastic cups, borrow that book from the library and go to a thrift store and find some .05 pez dispensers. Whatever it is, try to find ways to "satisfy" his desire. For normal kids this is called spoiling them, for kids that have these kind of obsessive (also called perseveration) issues, it just keeping them and yourself from going insane. As he gets older, you can spend more time giving him the "logical" explanations and he can more assist in finding the compromise solutions that will "fix" whatever he is craving. Yeah, I think craving is a good way to describe it.</p><p></p><p>To that end, I've got hundreds of yards of fabric, dozens of different colored threads, pounds of fiberfill, so many hanks of lanyards I can't count, umpteen rolls of duct tape, cases of tic tacs. The list just goes on and on. This past summer, DD1 was stuck with one foot firmly obsessed with items or activities, and one foot firmly not being able to decide which activity she was truly interested in. Not a fun summer for any of us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="keista, post: 519341, member: 11965"] Welcome! I can so relate to this! Fortunately/unfortunately It's been a pretty recent development for DD1 Before she'd get obsessed with stuff, she was chronically bored - translation: she found NOTHING interesting. These seem to be short lived obsessions. Oh heck yeah, they can be a real PITA, but I found the only real way to get rid of them is to fuel them. Build a miniature golf course in the living room with plastic cups, borrow that book from the library and go to a thrift store and find some .05 pez dispensers. Whatever it is, try to find ways to "satisfy" his desire. For normal kids this is called spoiling them, for kids that have these kind of obsessive (also called perseveration) issues, it just keeping them and yourself from going insane. As he gets older, you can spend more time giving him the "logical" explanations and he can more assist in finding the compromise solutions that will "fix" whatever he is craving. Yeah, I think craving is a good way to describe it. To that end, I've got hundreds of yards of fabric, dozens of different colored threads, pounds of fiberfill, so many hanks of lanyards I can't count, umpteen rolls of duct tape, cases of tic tacs. The list just goes on and on. This past summer, DD1 was stuck with one foot firmly obsessed with items or activities, and one foot firmly not being able to decide which activity she was truly interested in. Not a fun summer for any of us. [/QUOTE]
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