You can buy all sorts of toys for your kid: cuddly toys (Winnie the Pooh stuff is pretty popular – well, for me anyway), little racing cars, wind up moving animals.
Take a trip to Toys r us and it’s a treasure trove for kids. Although….I would always be reluctant to take your kid with you to the toy shop. It’s like waving every variation of cocaine, heroin and cannabis in the face of a hard core drug addict. Or – and I like this analogy better – giving Coca Cola to a three year old.
Having said that, though, I don’t know why we bother. No matter what toy he gets, they all end up in one place…his mouth. He’s not restricted to toys either. Yes, we already know his habit of chewing on his hands or even his feet, but pretty much anything is fair game.
Books, bibs, remote controls (a favourite for all kids apparently), chair legs – he’ll give anything a taste. He enjoys biting on the wheels of my office chair….and we found him licking the tiled floor the other day. Yuck. We really need to break him of that particular habit.
Apparently “mouthing” is pretty common for babies – it’s there way of exploring their environment. So…nothing to worry about. Not that I was worried about anything of course. As if.
I just wish he would choose to “explore” his own food once in a while.
