Weird behavior from 3yr old refluxer?

Kim, did it just start since taking him off the prevacid?

OCD behavior? normal, weird 3-year old behavior? sometimes little kids get hooked on doing things for awhile, and then give it up for some new, weird behavior.

kim, i started with the rituals when i was in the 3rd grade—i couldn’t stop them, but i could change them. they drove me crazy over the years—-i was in high school before i ever heard of OCD. i don’t have serious problems with it either, it is just a little irritating. i hear that it is pretty common to have a certain amount of OCD behaviors. sometimes my kids and i get talking about the weird OCD things we do and we get laughing really hard!

My 7 year old has OCD. The best thing to do when a child (I think all kids have little weird things they’ll do from time to time, like Christine said) starts a behavior or pattern like that is ignore it. You might want to keep an eye out as to WHEN he does it, is it during a stressful situation, or is he worried about something for some reason? Just a thought

When Austin gets nervous or anxious or even excited, he’ll put his hands up to his nose one at a time very quickly, almost looks like he’s about to sneeze or something…He was diagnosed at 3 (but his issues were WAY worse than just one little ritual).

Molars could be another explanation, maybe he feels them coming in but they don’t really hurt? My sister’s son went through this obnoxious period when his 2 year molars came in where he’d stick his hand in his mouth and down his throat and actually make himself puke!!!

Or he could just be 3-LOL, kids are just plain strange sometimes! I look at Aidan who’s almost one and just think “WHERE did you come from????” I would just ignore it, but I would also write it down so you’ll remember that he did it at 3 if for some reason it stops and then he starts doing it again at like 7-you’ll have a refernce point to look back on and go ahhhh ok see he used to do that all the time!

Sorry for the long post!

There are three year old molars?????????? I thought we were almost done with this teething business!

Lori- They told me just to ignore it when he was little, now that he’s older and is kind of able to understand WHY he does it, I can actually talk with him about it. My mom used to teach 4th grade sunday school, and she had a brother and sister in the class who both had some kind of disorder (I can’t remember the name) that caused them to pull their hair out. I think it had a lot to do with high stress/anxiety, but I remember her saying that it’s kind of rare.

Aidan plays with his hair, but he also hits himself in the head!! Literally, when he’s trying to go to sleep he balls up his little hand into a fist and bops himself in the forehead (not very hard)after rubbing, his eyes unitl he gets tired.

I’m always hyper sensitive to anything that looks the least bit “off” in my kids behavior b/c of all the issues my older son has….b/c I think that if Austin had gotten help for all the social anxiety stuff when he was much younger, he’d be much better off.

teething 18 year olds-LOL I never thought of it that way, maybe that’s why teenagers are as much of a pain in the butt as 2 year olds???