https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:23:55 +0000 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:56:50 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=29460 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=29460&PID=812765&title=freaking-out-over-dirty-hands#812765 Author: Troods
Subject: 29460
Posted: 20 October 2009 at 10:56pm

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?]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:56:50 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=29460&PID=812765&title=freaking-out-over-dirty-hands#812765 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=29460&PID=812164&title=freaking-out-over-dirty-hands#812164 Author: ElfsMum
Subject: 29460
Posted: 20 October 2009 at 1:37pm

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:) ]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:37:55 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=29460&PID=812164&title=freaking-out-over-dirty-hands#812164 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=29460&PID=812158&title=freaking-out-over-dirty-hands#812158 Author: pepsi
Subject: 29460
Posted: 20 October 2009 at 1:33pm

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?

]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:33:35 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=29460&PID=812158&title=freaking-out-over-dirty-hands#812158 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=29460&PID=812115&title=freaking-out-over-dirty-hands#812115 Author: Nikki
Subject: 29460
Posted: 20 October 2009 at 1:04pm

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)]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:04:30 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=29460&PID=812115&title=freaking-out-over-dirty-hands#812115 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=29460&PID=811968&title=freaking-out-over-dirty-hands#811968 Author: cuppatea
Subject: 29460
Posted: 20 October 2009 at 11:20am

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.

]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:20:36 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=29460&PID=811968&title=freaking-out-over-dirty-hands#811968 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=29460&PID=811942&title=freaking-out-over-dirty-hands#811942 Author: Snappy
Subject: 29460
Posted: 20 October 2009 at 10:55am

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?]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:55:50 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=29460&PID=811942&title=freaking-out-over-dirty-hands#811942