Freaking out over dirty hands?
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Topic: Freaking out over dirty hands?
Posted By: Snappy
Subject: Freaking out over dirty hands?
Date Posted: 20 October 2009 at 10:55am
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Hmmm, Jackson has started screaming and shaking whenever his hands get dirty. Is this something to worry about? Or a normal toddler thing?
He had his hand in a sling for a few weeks, under his clothes so he didnt see or use his hand. I just wonder whether something is going on in that little brain of his.... Last night he woke up screaming and when I picked him up he looked at his hands and went "Gone?" Anyone elses child been through this? |
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Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 20 October 2009 at 11:20am
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Spencer does this to a degree depending on what else is going on. Playing outside he generally doesn't care what gets on his hands but sometimes if he falls he will then moan about something on his hand. He sometimes doesn't like messy food or food getting on his hands and other times he doesn't care.
I think just don't make a fuss when he is complaining about dirty hands and clean them up quickly and then encourage messy play as much as poss, that's what we do and he doesn't seem to have an issue as such just sometimes doesn't like stuff on his hands. ------------- 
 
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Posted By: Nikki
Date Posted: 20 October 2009 at 1:04pm
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Jake doesn't like sticky hands sometimes, but most of the time it doesn't bother him. When its does, he freaks out too (but thats usual with anything he doesn't like!). It probably is because it was in a sling, but I'd just do what cuppatea suggested and not make a fuss. I'm sure he'll be over it and freaking about something else soon! (Jake was scared of his shadow last summer, and now he loves telling me what the other Jakob is doing!! haha) ------------- DS (5yrs) and DD (3yrs) |
Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 20 October 2009 at 1:33pm
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Alyssa has never liked having dirty hands..even while eating, if she gets food on her hands she will insist they are wiped clean before she will keep eating. When she was younger she used to just cry or get a little hysterical when they were dirty and now that she is over 3 she will just whine until they are clean (I don't know if that is any better, haha)
I always thought that she is like this because when she used to go to nanas house for the day, my mum would always tell her how her hands were dirty and wipe them after she did anything.. who knows though? |
Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 20 October 2009 at 1:37pm
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i agree with cuppatea...Ethan used to be like this..esp when it was paint..or someone stamped his hand..but gradual exposure and offering more opportunity seems to have worked.. toddlers are weird:) ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: Troods
Date Posted: 20 October 2009 at 10:56pm
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Emily gets a bit funny like that sometimes. Although she will quite happily push her hands in the dirt outside, eat messy food with her hands etc - but at some point if it gets too much for her she holds them out and wants them wiped. So usually I just keep a muslin cloth on hand for her to use when she wants. A couple of weeks ago though she freaked out when she was drawing on some paper with a pen, then decided to draw a line across the palm of her hand. She ran over holding her hand out shaking and screaming - I'd never seen anything like it. I quickly rubbed it off no prob and she calmed down but it hasn't happened again. A lady at my work was saying her niece used to hate her hands getting dirty or anything stuck to them - I think it may be just a toddler thing that they eventually grow out of. Maybe it's just a learning/discovery thing? ------------- 
 Missed MC July 2011
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