my boy has a fan obsession
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Topic: my boy has a fan obsession
Posted By: emily
Subject: my boy has a fan obsession
Date Posted: 01 June 2008 at 7:54am
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anyone else experienced anything like this? He is almost 3 and LOVES fans. Not kidding. He calls Mitre10 Mega, the fan shop. If we goes to someone's house and they have a fan, he wants to turn it on and play with it. He seems to be fascinated with turning it on and off and how it works. He even tries to check out ppls cars as they have fans at the front grill! Dangerous I know! And points out everyones air conditioning fans outside their houses or on buildings during our walks.
His favourite toy when a baby was his Jungle Rounds game which spins around balls. He would experiment with it trying to balance differenty toys on the centre piece. He seems quite interested in how things work though. He will try to pull apart some of his toys to see how they work. When I pulled apart his jungle rounds game to fix it he was fascinated. He seems quite normal to me, and developmentally is completely normal. I mean, he can count to 13 and recognise numbers (tells me what numbers are on letter boxes and tells me the number of aisle we are in in the supermarket lol), just that I don't know anyone else's kid like that. He plays cars and trucks and playdough etc just like other kids but see a fan, and he'll drop what he's doing and spend 15mins turning it off and on and making it oscillate and stop. He even says "its oscillating Mum!" Oscillate! He's not quite 3! lol Is this behaviour unusual? His younger brother is not so obsessed but Monkey see monkey do .....he will go and get involved if big bro is. |
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Posted By: katie1
Date Posted: 01 June 2008 at 12:48pm
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I really don't know but I would think that if everything else seems normal that maybe it is just something that interests him. His wee mind is probably just inquisitive and fascinated to see how things work. Fans moving are probably quite mesmerizing!
Children tend to get fixated on things at times and probably the pointing to fans outside peoples houses is just quite fun - spotting something he recognises and is interested in. I'll be interested in others responses but would think if everything else is normal its probably fine. |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 01 June 2008 at 1:58pm
how cute, certainly beats the shoe obsession that toby has!  ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: emily
Date Posted: 01 June 2008 at 2:14pm
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thanks guys. I agree I think he's "normal" but just wasn't sure if kids this age get obsessions about random things like that?
Maybe obsession isn't even the right word. It's like its one of his favourite toys lol. When younger he found speakers fascinating and would point out speakers in shops, in the car, on my phone, even on my digital camera etc etc. But still always been a love of fans. I took the one out of his room in summer as to him it was just another toy and he ended up wrecking it by turning it on and off (at the button, not the power point, he can't get to that). |
Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 01 June 2008 at 3:03pm
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My nephew got obsessed with snooker, he would watch it, he knew it was on channel 2 and what time it was on. He knew all the players names (world championship). He knew how much each ball was worth and which order they had to be potted in. He had his own little table and would set the balls up perfectly and he knew if you hit something you weren't suppose to. He was about 2 ish when the obsession starts and now at 7 he has own bigger table and is inrolled in a childrens snooker lesson programme so he can play on full size tables.
When the olypmics was on last he was 3.5 yrs and he learnt ALL of the flags, my SIL had to look up who some of the countries were so she could tell him but once he had been told he knew them all. He also use to have a thing for numbers and when I took him to the supermarket he would shout out numbers that he saw. He would tell me that I lived at 84, that mummy and daddy lived at 24 and that nanny and granddad had no number (their house has a name but no number). He couldnt' count to 84 but because it was on my door he knew it. Apart from doing those things he is completely normal in every other way. Sounds to me like your boy is just totally fascinated by how the fans work. ------------- 
 
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Posted By: emily
Date Posted: 01 June 2008 at 3:07pm
| thanks cuppatea. Yes, he does that too with numbers lol. He tells me the aisle number we are in at the supermarket, tells me the letterbox numbers as we walk past, pretty much anytime he spots a number somewhere. For him, I think numberjacks is responsible, he loves that show! |
Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 01 June 2008 at 8:48pm
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That is so cute and kind of uncanny too. I had a friend over today who's 2 yo is obsessed with fans and always points them out in the shops etc. He say J-ville (a shopping area in Wellington) is where the fans live.
We have a ceiling fan which he was fascinated by and he also loves playing with a wheels on toy cars etc. -------------  
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Posted By: emily
Date Posted: 01 June 2008 at 9:30pm
| good to know he's not alone then! lol. Oh, and I forgot about the car thing. He used to have a remote control car (he broke it) and would flip it onto its roof and, using the controls, sit there and watch the wheels go forward, and reverse and turn. I thought nothing of it, but i have had a comment before along the lines of "strange kid" which is why I thought I'd ask about it on here. |
Posted By: Jay_R
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 2:21pm
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Joshua has a thing about cars. Toyota's in particular. Can point them out at 100km an hour on the Southern Motorway lol! Anything in the transportation area actually - diggers, trucks, trains etc. And he loves wheels! Talks about them all the time.
I wouldn't fret too much about your boy emily. Fixations on unusual things can sometimes be a indication that there may be some form of autism going on, but those fixations don't tend to disappear or change as your sons has. |
Posted By: MummyFreckle
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 2:47pm
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So cute.....my nephew (3) is obsessed with cars too, but the brands / makes. If you ask him what sort of car Nana/Grandad/Aunty/Uncle etc drives...he can tell you the make and in most cases the model. When you drive past the caryard he will point out the cars that are the same as various family members....
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