Re: obsessed with playing in water.

[Guest guest]

I have an NT kid who loved to play in water..I think all kids do.

It's a wonderful sensory experience and usually calming.

For us, the only thing that reduced obsessions was chelation over

time. I can't say any one supplement got rid of his obessesions or

reduced them.

He still loves trains though, and likes to play in water. The vacuum

fascination wore is gone. He sees that as work now.

Anyone else?

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> We also have the same problem here, my 7 yr old grandson loves to play

> in the sink, and also loves to bath and soak up towels and loves to see

> you wipe everything up.

>

>

> he also has a few other things like vacuuming and is quite obsessed

> with trains.

> We would like to know what might help this.

> thanks

> Joyce

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[Guest guest]

Hi, our son goes through several phases of what he is " obsessed " with

but it doesn't last. If you think about it, water, the vaccume

cleaner, trains...are all really fascinating. Our children are looking

at things differently than we are and it is interesting to allow them

to teach us. Good ideas to alter the obsession into a learning

activity but really, enjoy the unharmful " obsessions " and perhaps we

can figure out why they are looking at that item specifically...such

smart kids!

Jen

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> We also have the same problem here, my 7 yr old grandson loves to

play

> in the sink, and also loves to bath and soak up towels and loves to

see

> you wipe everything up.

>

>

> he also has a few other things like vacuuming and is quite obsessed

> with trains.

> We would like to know what might help this.

> thanks

> Joyce

>

[Guest guest]

My son's book of poetry, " Embracing the Sky " , addresses many of these obsessions

from his perspective.

Available on amazon.com

Barb

[ ] Re: obsessed with playing in water.

Hi, our son goes through several phases of what he is " obsessed " with

but it doesn't last. If you think about it, water, the vaccume

cleaner, trains...are all really fascinating. Our children are looking

at things differently than we are and it is interesting to allow them

to teach us. Good ideas to alter the obsession into a learning

activity but really, enjoy the unharmful " obsessions " and perhaps we

can figure out why they are looking at that item specifically...such

smart kids!

Jen

>

> We also have the same problem here, my 7 yr old grandson loves to

play

> in the sink, and also loves to bath and soak up towels and loves to

see

> you wipe everything up.

>

>

> he also has a few other things like vacuuming and is quite obsessed

> with trains.

> We would like to know what might help this.

> thanks

> Joyce

>

[Guest guest]

Hi,

Last year at this time we were getting ready to enter my son's phase

of being fascinated by flushing stuff - it was the swishing around in

the water that he loved. After breaking several toilets (my husband

could now be a plumber), we finally were able to switch him into

playing with a shallow storage bin of water (under supervision, of

course). We put two or three inches of water in it and he puts his

toys and animals in. The bucket and the toilet have since gotten

somewhat boring for him, but he is still totally a water baby (he is

5). He loves the bath and swimming. As long as he isn't breaking

stuff or making a huge mess, it is probably okay. We had freaked out

and asked behaviorists, specialists, etc. and it was really just

something he liked.

FWIW,

[Guest guest]

INOSITOL.

Funny because my son had that water obsession too, and I was actually

really scared he would drown when we lived in Hawaii cause he would

do anything to run off toward water. As of a few weeks ago, the

obsession has turned completely around and now it is that he CANNOT

STAND the sound of running water. He says " turn it off! " , or " NO! " ,

or " Lets get OUTTA HERE! " He doesn't want to take a bath. He's

become a bit more reasonable in the last week with the addition of

some inositol, letting us take him swimming, but the running water

still bugs him.

>

> We also have the same problem here, my 7 yr old grandson loves to

play

> in the sink, and also loves to bath and soak up towels and loves to

see

> you wipe everything up.

>

>

> he also has a few other things like vacuuming and is quite obsessed

> with trains.

> We would like to know what might help this.

> thanks

> Joyce

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