Tip for the hair pulling babe if they are a newborn, if you bend their hand forward at the wrist the palmar grasp reflex (what causes them to not be able to release at their own will) will release 😊
Joystick is a very apt description. As an intersex person who didn't get ANY hormones until my 30s (I will be 42 next month), I will say that after starting hormone replacements, I found MY joystick and finally figured out why it's a constant fidget for those of the male sex configuration... it has so many interesting parts that don't really have a comparable feel on any other part of the body! Note, I do not have the cherries, and only an inch of joystick.
My darling little boy found his fidget at a whopping 3 weeks old with that iron grip they are renowned for and after literally picking ourselves off the floor laughing, we noticed he was giggling too!! 36 years old now and I still get him with that story.😂
Mine is obsessed with playing with his digit to the point I'm scared he's gonna yank it off 😂 also his new favourite thing is to bend down quick as a flash and wipe the sidewalk with his hand then taste it 🤮 every single time we leave the house. I never thought "stop tasting the sidewalks" would be something I'd utter every day as a parent
LOL reminds me of when i would eat the grass wherever we went because i loved charlie and the chocolate factory and i was trying to find chocolate grass
@@mackenziehardy4020please remember that girls have joysticks too, they are just raised very early to not play as much as boys, or even at all. Desire to « play video games » is repressed in females very early, and very subtly, but it’s a disservice. Meanwhile joysticking and other games are completely tolerated with boys, and this permissibility goes on all their life. « Video games » are cool and virile for boys, but for girls traditionally it’s more demeaning and unfeminine. It’s the whole purity culture that has seeped so profoundly in the way we raise our kids we don’t even realize it.
@@lililangtry1881 I get what you're trying to say, but the solution isn't to be more lax with our little girls fidgeting with their privates, just like we aren't lax with our little boys doing so. There's a time and a place for everything, and I believe "exploration" should be conducted in private, but they need to be old enough to understand before that conversation is being had. So, before that, "get yer hand out yer pants" will do.
@@absolutelynotarobot we try "privates are private. You don't play when other people are around or in not private places." No shame in the doing. Just a lesson in appropriate time and place. Some success so far.
My 4yo plays with his fidget all the time. He pulls down his pants on the playground because he forgets the rules. And now my 3yo is starting. I'm constantly saying "we do not show our privates to other people!"
my daughter used to grab fistfuls of cat food and cram it in her mouth whilst running from me at top speed....... and then turn her nose up at whatever i cooked for dinner, smh kids are pure savages
@saltydinonuggies1841 true, lol that's just the worst I witnessed. her little brother used to have a weird quirk with baloney, he would put it on his head and let it marinate for awhile before he ate it🤮 couldn't stand when he did that, he certainly wasn't doing anything to debunk the "white ppl smell like baloney" stereotypes😅
I eat cat treats and food sometimes- I dunno why but it tastes really good, and I've been doing it since I can remember 😅 I don't take fistfuls tho, I just snatch like two pellets while feeding the cats...
Yeah my daughter and stinkbugs 🤢 I’m so glad she hasn’t ate none in about 6 months but now she’s scared of them and call them the ladybugs that stink 🤣
My kids told me one day that we should get another kind of cat food because they had all eaten some of it and it wasn't as tasty as they had assumed. All three of them. They were not preschool age either. They were in Junior High... Yes, that's right. Junior High School Age. Oh, and they said the dry food (crunchies) tasted like grass and my oldest daughter said the water she drank alongside our cat in the GUTTER was the best tasting water she ever tasted. I have no words.
"My child never ate things they shouldnt have!" No no no, lets rephrase that sentence shall we? "I never CAUGHT my child eating things they shouldn't be eating"
If you have a child in diapers & they are playing by themselves in their room and are WAY too quiet....they are channeling the spirit of Picasso, using the contents of said diaper as their medium of choice. 👌
Lmao, yes my oldest (almost 2 at the time) was way too quiet. I walked into her room to find a Poopoo-Picasso. I teased her about her crappy version of a stary night during her teen years. (To everyone complaining that teasing her about that was soooo wrong) I never teased her in front of friends nor out in public.
Yes. I’ve lived this. I walked in on one of those once. My son managed to get out of his onesie. After a good disgusting gagging session we threw away the sheets had to clean up the cot ,my husband showered him down.. the walls were unaffected thank goodness.
When I was born apparently I had a good head of hair until I ripped it all out and became basically bald for a year. Big love to my mom for dealing with my dumbass since I was born!
My son once grabbed a spider and stuck it in his mouth, my daughter let out a horror scream when she saw the leg of the spider give it’s final twitch. I just stood there shocked as he swallowed it thinking why don’t baby books talk about this 😂
you could not keep plastic out of my mouth as a kid. I still find myself goating on straws when I have them. turns out I am AuDHD and chew to stim and apparently plastic is the stimmiest stim. I am the destroyer of DS styluses and eventually the upper corner of the DS itself.
My kid had pica when it came to cat litter. He would pick up the individual tiny grains like it was crack (little bugger was QUICK as well). My pediatrician thought it was funny (he and his wife raised 6 or 7 kids so he knows how some kids just had behavioral quirks) and gave some tips to help attempt to mitigate the obsession. Thankfully he outgrew it by the time he was 3
As the parent of 4 boys, I can confirm that once it’s discovered they never leave it alone. I’d also like to add that they might also use their diapers as pouches for toys, while the diaper is still on their person. I cannot tell you the amount of times I’ve seen them pull cars and Bluey figures out of their diaper at random times through the day.
My, now three year old, then 2 year old, ate a fistful of dog hair, fresh off the Pyrenees. Our dog was perplexed, i was disturbed, my partner was in a fit of laughter, and i pulled dog hair out of her mouth for hours 😂
Ugh! At least it was "fresh!" 🥴 When my baby first learned to crawl, she use to try to eat dust bunnies!! With cat & dog hair all in them! 🤢 I kept the floor clean, but somehow she'd scour every nook and cranny and find some clump o' yuck from some hidden crack or crevice in the house to munch on! I was so grossed out! 🤢 I would snatch the clump-o'-yucks away from her immediately! I think the fact that I wouldn't let her eat them made them forbidden fruit to her, so it became her mission in life to find them and chow down whenever I let my guard down for a moment. I finally gave up and just let her nibble dust bunnies to her little heart's delight. But soon enough, she discovered that it was, in fact, NOT delightful and she stopped. Sometimes you just gotta let 'em F around and find out! 🤷♀️
I can remember when my son, at about 2 would sit on the couch watching TV and fidgeting, lol. I didn't care at all. I and so many people try to tell me that I should stop him, punish him??? I didn't let him do it if we had company, but if someone just opened the door and popped in it wasn't my responsibility to make the kids were presentable enough for church. I told more than one person to learn to knock. We were all young parents in an apartment complex and we all ran in and out of each other's apartments all day so knocking was a formality we threw out quickly. Lol. I was a gentle parent when it was still very common to use a weapon to discipline a child here in Appalachia.
@@michelewalburn4376there’s a time and place for everything. Sitting on the couch around family is not either of those. I don’t think you should punish him, but you shouldn’t raise him to think that’s okay Edit to add: 1) I want to clarify that when I wrote this comment I had read the one I was replying to like their son was currently 2. Reading again I see that’s not the case. 2) (and this is for any current/wanna be parents reading this) I wanted to also add that allowing your kid to do something like that is potentially dangerous. Children are most likely to be abused by family, family friends, or other people already close to them like coaches. For toddlers it’s obviously more so the first 2 categories. I know that we all obviously want to believe that the people around us would never do that, but you never truly know. Only 12% of cases of csa are reported (in the U.S.) and for both child and adults the perpetrator’s usually have multiple victims before they get caught. If anyone read these two comments and agreed with the first one, please just stop and think about worst case scenario of people seeing your child “fidgeting”, and if you can’t let me list 3 in ascending order of awful: 1) your kid finds out *insert number of people* have seen them “fidgeting” and is mortified, 2) an adult around them has gross thoughts while seeing them “fidget” and 3) said gross adult abuses said child. And to end a note for any victims out there: No matter where, when, who, or how, it was not your fault. 💜
i remember being like 4 & my brother was crawling around with a big dead cockroach in his mouth & me & my mom were horrified & she took it outta his mouth & he was crying & i was also crying bc i thought he was made of bugs like oogie boogie from nightmare before christmas or something & my mom had to tell me several times that he was okay & he was not made of bugs lol
My son was screaming one morning when he was about 1. I walked into the worst smell ever. His diaper was off and poop was everywhere. How did I know he tried it? He had a poop handprint on his mouth.... yeah, they will put ANYTHING in their mouths.
@@sadis2143It's not less common. The difference is we're are taught that it's wrong and shameful for us whereas boys are taught that it's normal and natural for them.
@@Shield954 Depends on the era. For Boys it was translated into circumcision justified by religion, in an effort to curb the desire or pleasure and ease of the act
We kept chickens in the yard, and my then 2 year old found a well hidden clutch of eggs. From the start of spring. In August. He took a confident bite, and all of the adults gagged and jumped into action. He had diarrhea for 2 days.
Salmonella is from the chicken not the inside of a raw egg, Salmonella is on the outside of the shell he may have gotten sick from that. Sounds like he is fine now so it turned out OK but probably should have taken him to a Dr it had gone on past the 2days just for future, if it ever happens again. Lol. Glad he's ok.
@@odditycat2716 possibly but doubtful if she is paying attention to when her hens are laying eggs she would be either collecting them or checking to make sure they hatch. Chickens lay 1-5 eggs a day in their prime egg laying days from spring till fall, depending on the breed of chicken. I do not doubt or discount that they may have been old eggs or that they could have been fresh eggs but the fact is that salmonella comes from the hen and being on the outside of the egg and not the inside of a raw egg was my point. I am honestly just thankful that her son is ok and healthy now. It could have been worse but from her comment it sounds like her son is alive, healthy and doing well, to which I am thankful for. I'm sure or at least hopeful that she would have taken him to been seen by a Dr if it had continued.
@@sunflowerlover7979The phrasing was a little hard for me to parse as well, but the post states they were 5 months old. The post says that they found eggs from the start of spring and ate them in august, meaning that yes they were about 5 months old. That being said, good information about salmonella!!!
This happened with my friend's baby brother. We were in 5th grade when he was born and when he was a toddler, he started fidgeting with his "toy" and ended up hurting himself pretty bad with all the friction. They had to tape oven mitts on his hands to get him to stop 😂
My sibling ate snails and i ate sand. Im not sure why they ate snails, but i ate sand for the texture and the taste. (It tasted like how rain on hot concrete smells) I do not eat sand anymore. By my sibling did live in France for 2 years in college, so their snail eating phase didnt go away, it was leveled up.
I also ate sand as a kid. Loved to crunch on it. My parents would routinely tip up my hat on a beach trip only to find a ring of wet sand around my mouth. Every time. Embarrassingly that continued until maybe 8? Well past when it should have ended, anyways. At least then I knew well enough to hide that I was doing it, and only eat a little bit. I also ate road salt, though. Surprised that didn’t make me sick. (Also love the comment on the snail eating being leveled up!)
Preach! I swear for 10 years I had to keep begging my son to quit playing with it and I routinely found myself telling him to let go-it's not going to fall off. Then when he was alittle older (12ish) I told him if he didn't stop it would fall off! 😂😂 things no one prepared me for as a mom.
Maybe you should have a talk with him about doing it in private. Shaming him or threatening that it's going to fall off is going to cause lasting impacts that will follow him into adulthood.
@@Thatslipknotguy666 it's natural but it's also a private thing. especially once a kid is old enough for school, they are able to and should learn that.
My middle cousin sat down in front of the houseplant and proceeded to eat the dirt. But the time my uncle and aunt discovered him he was happy and full. They had a mild breakdown but the kid took it like a champ. 5 years later my youngest cousin did the exact same thing. My uncle, now wiser, yelled to his wife who was in the other room: " Honey, she's eating dirt." She asked: "What do you want me to do about it." He responded: "Same question as last time, really. Do you think she'll be needing dinner?" Kids are weird
Toddlers and children often make me wonder how we have made it this far lol. They r constantly trying to do what definetley shouldnt be done. Its baffling sometimes lol.
I always knock on my kid’s doors before I go in, because basic respect. I was “knock, open soon after” without waiting for a response. My oldest is 14. And early this year, I noticed a few times he’d quickly pull the covers up as I came in. I haven’t discussed it with him, but I know exactly what he’s doing. And I’ve started knocking and waiting until I get a response before going in…
If he’s 14 then you really do need to have “the talk” with him. Not talking about it, especially in the age of the internet, doesn’t mean he doesn’t know about stuff.
You really need to give him sex Ed, like yesterday. If he's pleasing himself he is most likely watching porn and he needs to be taught first and foremost that porn is staged, it's acting, that women don't have to look like they do in porn, that sex does not happen the way it does in porn. I cannot stress this enough. I'm 19 and I don't have kids and I don't want kids, but I grew up with boys in my class that were obsessed with porn and thought THAT was how you treat women (and men) in bed. It's also important to teach him about female pleasure, and how to be considerate towards women romantically and sexually. Lastly of course tell him it's natural and it's okay, and you'll respect his privacy. ❤
Just watch them. Don’t take your eyes off them and you will be ok. I have three sons and did not even like children. It’s different when they are yours. Mine never had the chance to get into much. Like I said watch them!!
“EVER” 😂 I am a mama of 5, 3 sons and 2 daughters who are now 25,21,19,18,16 and I can fully attest to ALL of these things AND MANY MANY MANY MORE being A MILLION PERCENT TRUE!
My brother as a small child started play with it at the doctors office. Mother was mortified but supposedly the doctor told her "thats normal, its just his best friend hes playing with". It was still a up hill battle to get him to keep his hands out of his pants before he became school age.
My toothless son was "chewing" something and I didn't it think anything of until a few minutes later he's still chewing. I put my finger in his mouth and I remove a small centipede (Texas), I was grossed out and I put it on my leg while I checked for more. Well, dang thing was still alive and it started to recover from the tumble it took in my son's mouth and tried crawling away 😬😬😬. It was so gross.
Dear god not the slugs! Where I live at least, that can be fatal or give permanent brain damage. Slugs can carry a parasite that will literally eat your nervous system, it's very nasty stuff
If a baby grabs their hair, give them something to suck on. It usually distracts them enough for them to let go. They don’t understand THEY control their hands when they’re newborn and that grip reflex is STRONG!
I learned recently that when babies grab & pull their own or other people’s hair, it’s called the grasp reflex. It lasts until they are around 6 months & they also have it in their feet 🦶stroking their palm will help them to relax, it’s literally a reflex, they can’t help it😊
Have 2 boys and so far neither of then have discovered said fidget. But my daughter and youngest boy will fidget with their nips any time they are incredibly upset, happy, or just totally spacing out. 🤦♀️🤣
Glad to hear that other parents have had firm, but non-shaming responses to little boys playing with their 'fidgets.' My little brother was told he would go to hell for touching himself even though he was 5 and obviously didn't understand the grown-up implications of what he was doing.
On that iron grip of death on the hair: It's a reflex that dates back to our shared lineage with primates that ensured infants survived infancy (by being able to hold on to mom while she escaped saber toothed predators). It actually can be opened! Once our maternal ancestors escaped the deadly predators, they would stick a boob in the infant's mouth to soothe and nourish them. The suckling reflex will relax the hands. #TheMoreYouKnow
As long as the dirt doesn't have poop in it, the kid will be fine. Some people would argue that eating dirt can be beneficial. I am not one of those people, but a little dirt never hurt anything.
The gum on the underside of any random table is apparently more delicious than the fresh gum I have in my purse! Or how about when they learn how to scream, sometimes it sounds like they are being murdered after the house was completely silent for a few minutes but NO just playing! How they sometimes play "hide-and-seek" but no one was told we were playing and now we play the panic and run around screaming game... I have 5 kids... I could probably spend days doing this 😂
My sister as like a 3 year old terrified my parents a few days after Christmas one year, because for some reason she decided to crawl under her bed and take a nap. The reason I specified it was after Christmas? That Christmas was when JonBenét Ramsey went missing.
That built in fidget is soooooo true. I have two boys, and am about to yave my third. It's just a part of life for me. My husband on the other hand, is extremely disturbed by it.
it is important that they know when and where it is appropriate to touch the fidget (something even I as a female child had to be taught) as soon as theyre old enough to recognize when they are in said inappropriate situations. One time i accidentally flashed my entire kindergarden class because i hated underwear and loved dresses. My mom had to sit me down and talk to me about the importance of undergarnments and skirts.
I have three they eventually stop doing that in front of you at least. My last one would get out of the tub and run through the house waving it everywhere. He was 4. My husband had a friend over one day and my son never did that again. We told him he ran so fast Dads friend saw nothing. 🤣😂
Something similar to the hand thing happened the one time I was watching my little cousin for like an hour. We were at the beach, and she got sand on her face, maybe in her eyes. She, a baby/toddler, knew it was unpleasant and knew that she didn't want me coming at her face (I was trying to wipe it away). Understandable. She did not know that wiping it with her own sandy hands wouldn't help.
Mine is almost 9 and we STILL have the discussion about putting nonfood items in our mouth. Also licking every surface he can, including animals and other people. Hes currently down with mono bc licking school desks n walls is an awful idea. Sensory kids are fun.
At one point i recall the family driend daycare owner having pulled me from eating her 20ft hedge several times, but needing to go inside for something for a second. And immediately i chose to teach the smaller child with me to also eat a leaf off the hedge while she was gone :)
Thank you for the future advice . Just had my very first baby boy 4 weeks ago and I love him so so much . I don’t want to think about when he gets older lol 🫣
Tip for the hair pulling babe if they are a newborn, if you bend their hand forward at the wrist the palmar grasp reflex (what causes them to not be able to release at their own will) will release 😊
I had 4 kids before anyone told me about that, and now I tell everyone with either kids or long hair.
Just wrote something similar! Glad I learned it by kid number 2
Also, nursing/breastfeeding/suckling will relax the plantar reflex.
Came here to say this! Super helpful with both of my kids. Especially when the one pulls the others hair 😅
Does this mean like bend their wrist by lifting up their elbow?
Had to tell a male student, "IT is not a joystick, stop playing with it." ...multiple times 😅.
Joystick is a very apt description.
As an intersex person who didn't get ANY hormones until my 30s (I will be 42 next month), I will say that after starting hormone replacements, I found MY joystick and finally figured out why it's a constant fidget for those of the male sex configuration... it has so many interesting parts that don't really have a comparable feel on any other part of the body!
Note, I do not have the cherries, and only an inch of joystick.
@@lorenzwinterhoff8049 no one needed to know this...
@@lorenzwinterhoff8049interesting story! Probably the wrong time to share it though
@@BlueberryFundip
Speak for yourself. I found it very interesting 🤷🏻♀️
@@lorenzwinterhoff8049 😬
“Built in fidget” I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR THAT GIVE ME LIKE A FIVE SECOND HEADSTART PLS??
NO SAME 😅😭
the "if youre child was born male" is all i needed to know
Some female children also find this region early on.
@scuzzellbutt not quite a fidget toy in the same way lol
@@hazelmartinez5874 Maybe you did it wrong because it was for me😂
These make me feel normal. When i tell him, "STOP PLAYING WITH IT!" he knows what I'm talking about.
My darling little boy found his fidget at a whopping 3 weeks old with that iron grip they are renowned for and after literally picking ourselves off the floor laughing, we noticed he was giggling too!! 36 years old now and I still get him with that story.😂
Mine is obsessed with playing with his digit to the point I'm scared he's gonna yank it off 😂 also his new favourite thing is to bend down quick as a flash and wipe the sidewalk with his hand then taste it 🤮 every single time we leave the house. I never thought "stop tasting the sidewalks" would be something I'd utter every day as a parent
LOL reminds me of when i would eat the grass wherever we went because i loved charlie and the chocolate factory and i was trying to find chocolate grass
I cannot tell you how many times we had to holler " Git yer hand outta yer pants!" 😂
I am so grateful that my little sibs are all girls (13 yr age gap so I’ve been their 2nd mom forever)
I have two young boys. I’m a broken record with that exact sentence. 😂
@@mackenziehardy4020please remember that girls have joysticks too, they are just raised very early to not play as much as boys, or even at all. Desire to « play video games » is repressed in females very early, and very subtly, but it’s a disservice. Meanwhile joysticking and other games are completely tolerated with boys, and this permissibility goes on all their life. « Video games » are cool and virile for boys, but for girls traditionally it’s more demeaning and unfeminine. It’s the whole purity culture that has seeped so profoundly in the way we raise our kids we don’t even realize it.
@@lililangtry1881 I get what you're trying to say, but the solution isn't to be more lax with our little girls fidgeting with their privates, just like we aren't lax with our little boys doing so. There's a time and a place for everything, and I believe "exploration" should be conducted in private, but they need to be old enough to understand before that conversation is being had. So, before that, "get yer hand out yer pants" will do.
@@absolutelynotarobot we try "privates are private. You don't play when other people are around or in not private places." No shame in the doing. Just a lesson in appropriate time and place. Some success so far.
My 4yo plays with his fidget all the time. He pulls down his pants on the playground because he forgets the rules. And now my 3yo is starting. I'm constantly saying "we do not show our privates to other people!"
Lol idk how many times ive had to say "remember buddy, thats something we only do in private. Now lets keep our hand out of our pants"
my daughter used to grab fistfuls of cat food and cram it in her mouth whilst running from me at top speed.......
and then turn her nose up at whatever i cooked for dinner, smh
kids are pure savages
I used to eat cat treats-
They’re not that bad once you’ve tried them, then again, I was a toddler…
Hey not the worst thing they could have eaten 😂😂😂
@-Bluejay- the vegan ones are just liketeddy graham's. Idk what brand they were but I was curious why they didn't smell like anything.
@saltydinonuggies1841 true, lol that's just the worst I witnessed.
her little brother used to have a weird quirk with baloney, he would put it on his head and let it marinate for awhile before he ate it🤮
couldn't stand when he did that, he certainly wasn't doing anything to debunk the "white ppl smell like baloney" stereotypes😅
I eat cat treats and food sometimes- I dunno why but it tastes really good, and I've been doing it since I can remember 😅
I don't take fistfuls tho, I just snatch like two pellets while feeding the cats...
The insects don't have to be dead. Trust me 😂
my brother (as a toddler) used to give worms “a bath” in his mouth 🥲😂 didn’t eat them. just wanted them to be clean.
Yeah my daughter and stinkbugs 🤢 I’m so glad she hasn’t ate none in about 6 months but now she’s scared of them and call them the ladybugs that stink 🤣
Sigh...my nephew used to eat ants...he's nearly 2 now
I don't think I ate bugs....
But I did, in multiple occasions, use my teeth to shorten my toenails 😅
😂😂😂😂😂😂
"They will not stop...ever...ever."🤦🏾♀️😭
My kids told me one day that we should get another kind of cat food because they had all eaten some of it and it wasn't as tasty as they had assumed. All three of them. They were not preschool age either. They were in Junior High... Yes, that's right. Junior High School Age. Oh, and they said the dry food (crunchies) tasted like grass and my oldest daughter said the water she drank alongside our cat in the GUTTER was the best tasting water she ever tasted. I have no words.
😂 oh man , this is prime Tom foolery 😂 the shenanigans are indeed legendary you'll never forget any of them❤
I gotta try this now…
"My child never ate things they shouldnt have!" No no no, lets rephrase that sentence shall we? "I never CAUGHT my child eating things they shouldn't be eating"
Ignorance is bliss.
If you have a child in diapers & they are playing by themselves in their room and are WAY too quiet....they are channeling the spirit of Picasso, using the contents of said diaper as their medium of choice. 👌
Lmao, yes my oldest (almost 2 at the time) was way too quiet. I walked into her room to find a Poopoo-Picasso. I teased her about her crappy version of a stary night during her teen years.
(To everyone complaining that teasing her about that was soooo wrong)
I never teased her in front of friends nor out in public.
yes
@@KatherineHudson-ts3oeyea so don’t do that
Yes. I’ve lived this.
I walked in on one of those once. My son managed to get out of his onesie. After a good disgusting gagging session we threw away the sheets had to clean up the cot ,my husband showered him down.. the walls were unaffected thank goodness.
@@KatherineHudson-ts3oe
And how did your teenaged daughter react? I imagine not well.
My favorite part is "They did, you just didn't know about it." So true!!!
When I was born apparently I had a good head of hair until I ripped it all out and became basically bald for a year.
Big love to my mom for dealing with my dumbass since I was born!
My son once grabbed a spider and stuck it in his mouth, my daughter let out a horror scream when she saw the leg of the spider give it’s final twitch. I just stood there shocked as he swallowed it thinking why don’t baby books talk about this 😂
I was about to say “i didnt eat anything weird when i was a kid” but then i remembered that i ate rubber bands
I ate chalk
Coal, dog biscuits and paper. Me and my cousin use to swap real human biscuits for dog biscuits, don't ask why our parents let us. But they did.
you could not keep plastic out of my mouth as a kid. I still find myself goating on straws when I have them. turns out I am AuDHD and chew to stim and apparently plastic is the stimmiest stim. I am the destroyer of DS styluses and eventually the upper corner of the DS itself.
Same. Remembered I ate cat food
I ate a penny
My kid had pica when it came to cat litter. He would pick up the individual tiny grains like it was crack (little bugger was QUICK as well). My pediatrician thought it was funny (he and his wife raised 6 or 7 kids so he knows how some kids just had behavioral quirks) and gave some tips to help attempt to mitigate the obsession. Thankfully he outgrew it by the time he was 3
As the parent of 4 boys, I can confirm that once it’s discovered they never leave it alone. I’d also like to add that they might also use their diapers as pouches for toys, while the diaper is still on their person. I cannot tell you the amount of times I’ve seen them pull cars and Bluey figures out of their diaper at random times through the day.
My, now three year old, then 2 year old, ate a fistful of dog hair, fresh off the Pyrenees. Our dog was perplexed, i was disturbed, my partner was in a fit of laughter, and i pulled dog hair out of her mouth for hours 😂
I thought was gonna be dog poo and not hair
😅😂🤣😭💀
Fresh off the perplexed Pyrenees is so hilarious 😂 🤣😂
Ugh! At least it was "fresh!" 🥴 When my baby first learned to crawl, she use to try to eat dust bunnies!! With cat & dog hair all in them! 🤢 I kept the floor clean, but somehow she'd scour every nook and cranny and find some clump o' yuck from some hidden crack or crevice in the house to munch on! I was so grossed out! 🤢 I would snatch the clump-o'-yucks away from her immediately!
I think the fact that I wouldn't let her eat them made them forbidden fruit to her, so it became her mission in life to find them and chow down whenever I let my guard down for a moment. I finally gave up and just let her nibble dust bunnies to her little heart's delight. But soon enough, she discovered that it was, in fact, NOT delightful and she stopped. Sometimes you just gotta let 'em F around and find out! 🤷♀️
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Clump-o yuck lmaoooo 😂😂😂
The point behind the fidgeting changes as they age but it absolutely doesn't stop! I've got adult sons, grandsons and a husband.
I can remember when my son, at about 2 would sit on the couch watching TV and fidgeting, lol.
I didn't care at all.
I and so many people try to tell me that I should stop him, punish him???
I didn't let him do it if we had company, but if someone just opened the door and popped in it wasn't my responsibility to make the kids were presentable enough for church.
I told more than one person to learn to knock.
We were all young parents in an apartment complex and we all ran in and out of each other's apartments all day so knocking was a formality we threw out quickly. Lol.
I was a gentle parent when it was still very common to use a weapon to discipline a child here in Appalachia.
@@michelewalburn4376there’s a time and place for everything. Sitting on the couch around family is not either of those. I don’t think you should punish him, but you shouldn’t raise him to think that’s okay
Edit to add: 1) I want to clarify that when I wrote this comment I had read the one I was replying to like their son was currently 2. Reading again I see that’s not the case. 2) (and this is for any current/wanna be parents reading this) I wanted to also add that allowing your kid to do something like that is potentially dangerous. Children are most likely to be abused by family, family friends, or other people already close to them like coaches. For toddlers it’s obviously more so the first 2 categories. I know that we all obviously want to believe that the people around us would never do that, but you never truly know. Only 12% of cases of csa are reported (in the U.S.) and for both child and adults the perpetrator’s usually have multiple victims before they get caught. If anyone read these two comments and agreed with the first one, please just stop and think about worst case scenario of people seeing your child “fidgeting”, and if you can’t let me list 3 in ascending order of awful: 1) your kid finds out *insert number of people* have seen them “fidgeting” and is mortified, 2) an adult around them has gross thoughts while seeing them “fidget” and 3) said gross adult abuses said child.
And to end a note for any victims out there: No matter where, when, who, or how, it was not your fault. 💜
The husband came last? 🤔🤔
😂😂😂
Sorry, the placement of your husband in that sentence hit my funny bone. Lol
It doesn't stop for women either. Hence why the sex toy industry is so successful 😂
@@greenbeantm1096 Exactly. If a girl did it everyone would flip but boys can do any f*cking thing they wan apparently.
i remember being like 4 & my brother was crawling around with a big dead cockroach in his mouth & me & my mom were horrified & she took it outta his mouth & he was crying & i was also crying bc i thought he was made of bugs like oogie boogie from nightmare before christmas or something & my mom had to tell me several times that he was okay & he was not made of bugs lol
My son was screaming one morning when he was about 1. I walked into the worst smell ever. His diaper was off and poop was everywhere. How did I know he tried it? He had a poop handprint on his mouth.... yeah, they will put ANYTHING in their mouths.
The first one is so true. They find it and never forget it. Their minds focus on it constantly. 🤷🏻
My second child ( a girl) since she was 2. It happens to both genders
@ashleyfortag7695 Yeah but the point is that if it’s a boy it’s a near guarantee just less common for girls
@@sadis2143not necessarily less common, I think more so just less talked about and more heavily discouraged
@@sadis2143It's not less common. The difference is we're are taught that it's wrong and shameful for us whereas boys are taught that it's normal and natural for them.
@@Shield954
Depends on the era. For Boys it was translated into circumcision justified by religion, in an effort to curb the desire or pleasure and ease of the act
We kept chickens in the yard, and my then 2 year old found a well hidden clutch of eggs. From the start of spring. In August. He took a confident bite, and all of the adults gagged and jumped into action. He had diarrhea for 2 days.
I'll bet he did! 😜
Salmonella is from the chicken not the inside of a raw egg, Salmonella is on the outside of the shell he may have gotten sick from that. Sounds like he is fine now so it turned out OK but probably should have taken him to a Dr it had gone on past the 2days just for future, if it ever happens again. Lol. Glad he's ok.
@sunflowerlover7979 I think the diarrhea had more to do with the eggs being 5 months old
@@odditycat2716 possibly but doubtful if she is paying attention to when her hens are laying eggs she would be either collecting them or checking to make sure they hatch. Chickens lay 1-5 eggs a day in their prime egg laying days from spring till fall, depending on the breed of chicken. I do not doubt or discount that they may have been old eggs or that they could have been fresh eggs but the fact is that salmonella comes from the hen and being on the outside of the egg and not the inside of a raw egg was my point. I am honestly just thankful that her son is ok and healthy now. It could have been worse but from her comment it sounds like her son is alive, healthy and doing well, to which I am thankful for. I'm sure or at least hopeful that she would have taken him to been seen by a Dr if it had continued.
@@sunflowerlover7979The phrasing was a little hard for me to parse as well, but the post states they were 5 months old. The post says that they found eggs from the start of spring and ate them in august, meaning that yes they were about 5 months old.
That being said, good information about salmonella!!!
The “built in fidget” sailed over my head and like a boomerang whacked me in the face 😭
This happened with my friend's baby brother. We were in 5th grade when he was born and when he was a toddler, he started fidgeting with his "toy" and ended up hurting himself pretty bad with all the friction.
They had to tape oven mitts on his hands to get him to stop 😂
My sibling ate snails and i ate sand.
Im not sure why they ate snails, but i ate sand for the texture and the taste.
(It tasted like how rain on hot concrete smells)
I do not eat sand anymore. By my sibling did live in France for 2 years in college, so their snail eating phase didnt go away, it was leveled up.
I also ate sand as a kid. Loved to crunch on it. My parents would routinely tip up my hat on a beach trip only to find a ring of wet sand around my mouth. Every time.
Embarrassingly that continued until maybe 8? Well past when it should have ended, anyways. At least then I knew well enough to hide that I was doing it, and only eat a little bit. I also ate road salt, though. Surprised that didn’t make me sick.
(Also love the comment on the snail eating being leveled up!)
Ya'all are quite lucky if you never had parasites, because sand and snails tend to be full of em 0-0)
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I cannot imagine what a wild snail would taste like 🤣
maybe the sibling heard of the concept of escargot and took it literal.
Non toxic acrylic paint. His poop was mint green and yellow for a week
How much did he eat??
Preach! I swear for 10 years I had to keep begging my son to quit playing with it and I routinely found myself telling him to let go-it's not going to fall off. Then when he was alittle older (12ish) I told him if he didn't stop it would fall off! 😂😂 things no one prepared me for as a mom.
It’s natural to do that you shouldn’t make that something that’s frowned opon
@@Thatslipknotguy666 Would you say the same thing to a daughter?
@@justabird7882 yeah it’s a natural thing to do why make it something bad
Maybe you should have a talk with him about doing it in private.
Shaming him or threatening that it's going to fall off is going to cause lasting impacts that will follow him into adulthood.
@@Thatslipknotguy666 it's natural but it's also a private thing. especially once a kid is old enough for school, they are able to and should learn that.
When my twin sister and I were younger she decided it was a good idea to eat 10 marbles.😂
TEN.
My middle cousin sat down in front of the houseplant and proceeded to eat the dirt. But the time my uncle and aunt discovered him he was happy and full. They had a mild breakdown but the kid took it like a champ. 5 years later my youngest cousin did the exact same thing. My uncle, now wiser, yelled to his wife who was in the other room: " Honey, she's eating dirt." She asked: "What do you want me to do about it." He responded: "Same question as last time, really. Do you think she'll be needing dinner?"
Kids are weird
My second son wasn’t born with a lot of hair but one time he grabbed a toy and started screaming because he thought his hand was stuck 😂
Knocked me out with the first truth!!! 😂😂😂
The built in fidget. We are in that phase now lol
I didn't tell my grandfather that I used to eat worms until long after I stopped eating worms. He was absolutely petrified 😂😂
Protein! 👍
I need that laundry sign!!! 🤣
Washing 30 min
Drying 60 min
Pitting away 7 to 10 business days 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I gave up the last step. It now lives in the laundry basket.😅
I love how accurate this truly is!!!!!
Sitting here eating a muffin wrapper. That phase sometimes never ends. ❤
Toddlers and children often make me wonder how we have made it this far lol. They r constantly trying to do what definetley shouldnt be done. Its baffling sometimes lol.
I wasn't prepared for this much truth on a Sunday afternoon
I am a natural ginger and am loving this look on you! Gorgeous.
Also, puppetry of the “fidget toy” was definitely a developmental stage in our house 😂
The fidget part, extremely true
I always knock on my kid’s doors before I go in, because basic respect. I was “knock, open soon after” without waiting for a response.
My oldest is 14. And early this year, I noticed a few times he’d quickly pull the covers up as I came in. I haven’t discussed it with him, but I know exactly what he’s doing. And I’ve started knocking and waiting until I get a response before going in…
Ok, but it's normal and allowed. As long as it's in private, and he understands that.
If he’s 14 then you really do need to have “the talk” with him. Not talking about it, especially in the age of the internet, doesn’t mean he doesn’t know about stuff.
You really need to give him sex Ed, like yesterday. If he's pleasing himself he is most likely watching porn and he needs to be taught first and foremost that porn is staged, it's acting, that women don't have to look like they do in porn, that sex does not happen the way it does in porn. I cannot stress this enough. I'm 19 and I don't have kids and I don't want kids, but I grew up with boys in my class that were obsessed with porn and thought THAT was how you treat women (and men) in bed.
It's also important to teach him about female pleasure, and how to be considerate towards women romantically and sexually. Lastly of course tell him it's natural and it's okay, and you'll respect his privacy.
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. If youre rly 19 you aound very mature and wise young lady
14 is late, i think talks should be done around 12. i started at 13. but never late than never
I hear so much shit about parenting, i'm honesty shocked i still want children. I need more tips and horror stories to deal with my future please
Just watch them. Don’t take your eyes off them and you will be ok. I have three sons and did not even like children. It’s different when they are yours. Mine never had the chance to get into much. Like I said watch them!!
“EVER” 😂 I am a mama of 5, 3 sons and 2 daughters who are now 25,21,19,18,16 and I can fully attest to ALL of these things AND MANY MANY MANY MORE being A MILLION PERCENT TRUE!
Omg the baby pulling hair and screaming 🥹🥹🥹 my little one used to do it with her entire nose instead 😭😭🤣
My brother as a small child started play with it at the doctors office. Mother was mortified but supposedly the doctor told her "thats normal, its just his best friend hes playing with". It was still a up hill battle to get him to keep his hands out of his pants before he became school age.
When our son was 2½ he ate a slug!!! Nastiness mess to clean😅
Oof. That’s a really bad one to eat too. Some of them can kill ya very quickly (or over months)
My toothless son was "chewing" something and I didn't it think anything of until a few minutes later he's still chewing. I put my finger in his mouth and I remove a small centipede (Texas), I was grossed out and I put it on my leg while I checked for more. Well, dang thing was still alive and it started to recover from the tumble it took in my son's mouth and tried crawling away 😬😬😬. It was so gross.
@jessj2530 well he's 32 now and 6'7½" tall- I think it was the green guts that grew him.
Dear god not the slugs! Where I live at least, that can be fatal or give permanent brain damage. Slugs can carry a parasite that will literally eat your nervous system, it's very nasty stuff
Some people pay good money to do that. Granted with enough butter and garlic ANYTHING can taste good, but I’ll still pass 😂
My cousins pulled his hair and screamed so much as an infant that my aunt and uncle resorted to putting socks on his hands to prevent it.
I stg your facial expressions are my favorite across the whole Internet
My youngest son keeps his fidget in a effing choke hold all day. 😂
It took me a second for the "fidget" part. 😂 Two of my younger brothers were the exact same way.
Me too. Lol 😂
If a baby grabs their hair, give them something to suck on. It usually distracts them enough for them to let go. They don’t understand THEY control their hands when they’re newborn and that grip reflex is STRONG!
As a mom of all boys this is accurate 😂 I’ve caught them going through the litter box multiple times. Apparently doing so is the coolest thing ever.
I learned recently that when babies grab & pull their own or other people’s hair, it’s called the grasp reflex. It lasts until they are around 6 months & they also have it in their feet 🦶stroking their palm will help them to relax, it’s literally a reflex, they can’t help it😊
Thank you so much! Now when I'm holding my nieces and they try to rip my hair from my scalp I have a way to stop them!
Have 2 boys and so far neither of then have discovered said fidget. But my daughter and youngest boy will fidget with their nips any time they are incredibly upset, happy, or just totally spacing out. 🤦♀️🤣
"They did you just didn't know about it." 😂😂
Glad to hear that other parents have had firm, but non-shaming responses to little boys playing with their 'fidgets.' My little brother was told he would go to hell for touching himself even though he was 5 and obviously didn't understand the grown-up implications of what he was doing.
Momma spitting truth.
On that iron grip of death on the hair:
It's a reflex that dates back to our shared lineage with primates that ensured infants survived infancy (by being able to hold on to mom while she escaped saber toothed predators).
It actually can be opened!
Once our maternal ancestors escaped the deadly predators, they would stick a boob in the infant's mouth to soothe and nourish them.
The suckling reflex will relax the hands.
#TheMoreYouKnow
The hair grip is comical. 😂 Whyyyyy are we so silly.
Can confirm. My mom never knew that I swallowed pennies and air soft pellets until I told her as an adult.
As long as the dirt doesn't have poop in it, the kid will be fine. Some people would argue that eating dirt can be beneficial. I am not one of those people, but a little dirt never hurt anything.
Dirt maybe, but definitely don't let the kid get into puddles. That water can and will give you worms 🤢
According to my dad, when I was a baby I ingested _living_ insects.
That laundry sign is perfect lol
The gum on the underside of any random table is apparently more delicious than the fresh gum I have in my purse! Or how about when they learn how to scream, sometimes it sounds like they are being murdered after the house was completely silent for a few minutes but NO just playing! How they sometimes play "hide-and-seek" but no one was told we were playing and now we play the panic and run around screaming game... I have 5 kids... I could probably spend days doing this 😂
Yeah, I think I've eaten that, too, at some point.
My sister as like a 3 year old terrified my parents a few days after Christmas one year, because for some reason she decided to crawl under her bed and take a nap. The reason I specified it was after Christmas? That Christmas was when JonBenét Ramsey went missing.
The hand hair thing is super true. Rub an ice cube on their hand to get them to let go. It worked with my daughter.
That built in fidget is soooooo true. I have two boys, and am about to yave my third. It's just a part of life for me. My husband on the other hand, is extremely disturbed by it.
it is important that they know when and where it is appropriate to touch the fidget (something even I as a female child had to be taught) as soon as theyre old enough to recognize when they are in said inappropriate situations. One time i accidentally flashed my entire kindergarden class because i hated underwear and loved dresses. My mom had to sit me down and talk to me about the importance of undergarnments and skirts.
@@dusk194same 😂 I was running naked through the Park one Day because of the same Reason 😂 I hated Underwear and Pants 😂😂😂
I have three they eventually stop doing that in front of you at least. My last one would get out of the tub and run through the house waving it everywhere. He was 4. My husband had a friend over one day and my son never did that again. We told him he ran so fast Dads friend saw nothing. 🤣😂
LMAO I'm dying about born with a fidget I cannot stop laughing😂😂😂😂
My mom always says my younger brother never ate anything off the floor that wasn't food. Week old cherrio? Sure! Broken crayon? Nope.
🤣 OMG, took me a minute to figure out the built-in fidget 🤣 AND IM A MOM OF TWIN BOYS 😂😂😂
Something similar to the hand thing happened the one time I was watching my little cousin for like an hour. We were at the beach, and she got sand on her face, maybe in her eyes. She, a baby/toddler, knew it was unpleasant and knew that she didn't want me coming at her face (I was trying to wipe it away). Understandable. She did not know that wiping it with her own sandy hands wouldn't help.
That’s a nice Fender Telecaster on the wall. I love mine, I prefer the sound and the neck dimension to any of my other guitars. 🎸 ❤
Yep to all of it and my boy is nearing 2 ! Prayers y’all !
I ate grass and leaves, with no reguard other than "milky sap stems are poision." And i choked on ice. Several times😊
Loving the hair
It's videos like this that make me happy I'm don't have children but love my nieces and nephew more
(The first one)
Me: dirty mind dirty mind d- d- d- d- d- dirty mind
The built in fidget toy 😂. This is so true
Mine is almost 9 and we STILL have the discussion about putting nonfood items in our mouth. Also licking every surface he can, including animals and other people. Hes currently down with mono bc licking school desks n walls is an awful idea. Sensory kids are fun.
When I was a little kid, my mother had to watch me closely cuz I liked to put toys in my mouth 'cuz they were pretty colors'. Lol
not the washing machine 😭😂
Have a 6 year old boy… he has discovered said fidget 😂😂
You are an amazing creator and EVERYTHING you have just daid is incredibly accurate
I actually forgot the “getting hand stuck in hair” phase. Lmfao. It’s so sad and funny.
This video just unlocked a memory of me eating an entire snail, shell & all! 🤢 🐌
The first one hit me like a truck, my GOD 😂
I have two boys they fidget with their fidgetors on a regular basis.
Yep these are all universal truths. 👌 I can especially attest to the first one as a "boy mom" x2
At one point i recall the family driend daycare owner having pulled me from eating her 20ft hedge several times, but needing to go inside for something for a second. And immediately i chose to teach the smaller child with me to also eat a leaf off the hedge while she was gone :)
THIS IS SO TRUE, I grew up as the oldest of 6 kids and I started baby sitting at 13 (also the hair is absolutely gorgeous)
your hair looks pretty!!
My sister once drank the water out of the holder for the toilet brush. She didn't die. She didn't even get sick.
Its your facial expressions for me😂😂😂😂 especially the one at the very end! You brighten my days so often, thank you!
YOU HAVE A MAGIC THE GATHERING TATTOO!!??? YOU GET COOLER ALL THE TIME
Gum off the ground of the Los Angeles Zoo 😭😭😭
.... Two out of those things applied to me growing up and my mother never let's me forget about them
Thank you for the future advice . Just had my very first baby boy 4 weeks ago and I love him so so much . I don’t want to think about when he gets older lol 🫣
Where is that girl with the flippin’ list!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂