Dd used to cover her dolls / our dog / me with blankets and get pissed if they didn't lie perfectly smooth. She out grew it but it did worry me at the time
ETA: when she became more verbal it turned out this was part of a game - a road, a fence, a parade. So I think it's just imagination
Post by nextbigthing on Feb 5, 2017 19:36:59 GMT -5
Thank you so much for all of the responses, I did look up some of the terms you guys use and it was very helpful to read up more on it. You guys made me feel so much better and I really appreciate it. I plan to still mention it to the pediatrician in a few weeks, I figure it can't hurt.
Just another one chiming in to say my kid did this at that age too and I totally forgot until recently because he doesn't do it anymore. He's now 4.5. Pretty sure it's just a phase
My son used to do that around 28 months. He would line up his trains perfectly (which was surprising to me )then make them fall and start over and over again.
Not only normal, but from some reading I was doing at the time classification and grouping similar things is an analytic pre-numeracy skill. DS1 went through a long period of lining up farm animals in pairs, putting trains in size order, and sorting diapers by designs. He also HATED having people mess with his stuff. He's outgrown most of the fits at tidy up time, but there are a lot of pictures on my phone of his creations that we had to take so he could reset everything the next day if needed.
Normal. I think I read recently it's a developmental milestone.
My nephew started this when he was 20 months old, and I know my sister worried about OCD, because he was METICULOUS and preferred lining up his cars to playing with them, and also had a meltdown if anyone messed them up. It lasted a fairly long time, but eventually he grew out of it, and his pediatrician was never worried.