Signs your child may grow up to be on the OCD side of life:
1. Scene- Dinner. Drinking milk. A single drop lands on their shirt. “ow ow ow, it hurts!!” Magically the pain goes away when you wipe up the milk.
2. Scene- Outside. Playing. Dirt gets on their hand. They throw their hands up and run to the door shouting nasty, nasty!
3. Scene- Their room. Getting dressed. Each outfit must be painstakingly matched, including socks, shoes, underwear, and hair bows. Yes my child can coordinate better than I can.
4. Scene- Living Room. Playing Castle. The child notices a piece of hair on the floor, picks it up gives you a look of disdain saying that’s gross and proceeds to throw it away.
5. Scene- Outside. Anything that could potentially be a bug. Your child points at the bug and yells don’t touch that. Bugs bite.
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You have no idea how much that image bothers me.
My (unborn) children are doomed.
I am guessing you are ocd, so you are afraid your children will be. Or you are messy and afraid your children will be clean. Either way, your child will be adorable and you will think whatever they do is cute. I promise.
I’m a bit OCD, I guess. Hopefully they won’t hate me too much for wanting to organize their toys. LOL
We know our 5 yr old has OCD, but they will not give a diagnosis till almost 18 here. He washes his hands or keeps wipes near by when playing with paint, playdough, sand, or anything “messy.” He cleans his desk, the table, the work centers, etc after or even before he uses them. He eats extremely slow in order to not make a mess. Getting dressed, he not only matches but lays them out on the floor to make sure they match and have no wrinkles or spots… Did I mention he thinks he is a super hero? Needless to say, he’s a hoot!
Sounds like he is adorable. I have heard from other commenters that their children grew out of it. So, who knows.
It’s too bad that it takes OCD for a child to be that clean. Kids usually gross me out, but I have a feeling yours would be cool in my book.
She is ridiculously cool. I wish I was as cool as her.
My nephew was like that as a child. Now he is 19, incredibly artistic and a perfectionist with, well everything. The OCD transformed into high standards that produce amazing work.
How wonderful. This is the musician nephew, correct?
No the chef, artist & designer. He was insane as a toddler.
My hubby has tendencies but I just let him do things as he feels they should be done and so he gets the comfort of things in his world being as HE needs them to be. I used to feel insulted that he was always “fixing” everything after I had done it, ie. He would resweep the kitchen floor – but now I realize that I don’t have to do that chore because he NEEDS to do it.
That is a wonderful way to look at it.
We’re into our 30th year of marriage, so it didn’t happen overnight! 🙂
How fabulously amazing !!!!! Congrats!
Based on the comments it seems like if my kid did show some of these signs, it’s best to be patient and sees what comes out of their obsession.
I think that is a great plan. I have a feeling once my daughter is in school and all the pressure to do what the other kids are doing, a lot of things will change.
My son was very OCD when he was younger. Everything in the house had to be stacked up. He would take books movies and anything else he could find flat and stack them into big stacks. When you would take them down or they would fall he would redo them and have a fit. He had three stacks of movies in his room stacked up the front of his dresser he wasn’t in there I moved a bunch of them around put them around the room. He came in started grabbing them and stacking them up. Then took some down moved them around put them back and went on. My sister was there I said what his he doing now. She said those movies he just put up there are the ones that were on top before you moved them around. This was at 2 years old. He also had the thing with clothes being wet if they got wet he had to take them off. He would not swim in swim trunks even because clothes were not meant to be wet and wore. he still has some OCD if you really watch him but it is no where near as bad as it was. I was about to lose my mind with everything in my house stacked up in piles in every room of the house.
Oh we cannot wear wet clothes either. I have heard a few parents say their kids grew out of it, so I will just wait and see what happens.
he did grow out of it thank goodness it makes it much easier to go to pool parties now lol. We don’t have to say sorry we can’t make it. he also wouldn’t wear long sleeves or pants until he was about 3. we had to wrap him in blankets when it was cold.
Apart from number 5, it sounds wonderful! All kids should be like that. Freaking out about spills, actually matching clothes… Yes, even number two, because it means they’re at least going outside.
True, so few kids go outside these days.
What’s the opposite of OCD? ‘Cause that’s what my kids have.
hmmm. wild and wooly?
I think your children sound amazing!! =D
Why thank you!