Me and my mom both think that my 2 and a half year old son has OCD. He is very particular about his clothes and his toys. He doesn't like other kids touching him. He feels he has to be clean all the time. He has to change his clothes if they're slightly dirty. He always organizes his toys and clothes in a particular way. He is obsessed with hoarding and hiding weird mundane items. He has certain quirks, like every time anyone leaves our house he has to walk outside with them and watch them leave, he will not willingly come back inside until he knows they're gone. And before he comes back in he always runs to the end of the porch and touches the rail before he comes back inside. He has the need to keep all doors shut. And there is just so many other small things like that, that I have been noticing since he has been living with us.
I have read some things on the internet saying that if a parent has OCD then the child will pick up on that, and I guess you could say I have OCD, I say I just like things to be a certain way, but whether or not I do he hasn't been living with us long enough to really pick up on it, and he has been like this for a very long time.
I think that it may come from the way his mom raised him through the first couple years of his life, they were constantly moving from place to place while she went from guy to guy and he has never had anything constant in his life, I think that his Obsessive Compulsive habits might be a security for him.
Since we have had him though, I have been trying to break him of these habits before they develop into a serious problem. Does anyone here have experience with young children with OCD? Sometimes I feel like I'm being mean to him. Like this morning we were eating breakfast and the cupboard above the table swung open and he started freaking out practically begging me to shut it for him, and he wouldn't sit in his chair and eat. I didn't shut the cupboard, I eventually got him to sit back down and eat, but I could tell he was frantic the whole time, and he didn't finish his food either.
Does anyone have any advice on breaking a toddler of habits like this?
I have read some things on the internet saying that if a parent has OCD then the child will pick up on that, and I guess you could say I have OCD, I say I just like things to be a certain way, but whether or not I do he hasn't been living with us long enough to really pick up on it, and he has been like this for a very long time.
I think that it may come from the way his mom raised him through the first couple years of his life, they were constantly moving from place to place while she went from guy to guy and he has never had anything constant in his life, I think that his Obsessive Compulsive habits might be a security for him.
Since we have had him though, I have been trying to break him of these habits before they develop into a serious problem. Does anyone here have experience with young children with OCD? Sometimes I feel like I'm being mean to him. Like this morning we were eating breakfast and the cupboard above the table swung open and he started freaking out practically begging me to shut it for him, and he wouldn't sit in his chair and eat. I didn't shut the cupboard, I eventually got him to sit back down and eat, but I could tell he was frantic the whole time, and he didn't finish his food either.
Does anyone have any advice on breaking a toddler of habits like this?
