DS obsessed with lights

So my ds, Anthony, is obsessed with lights. He loves when he gets to turn them on/off and insists we turn them on/off when we enter/leave the room. If you say no, they are sleeping { } he lets it be, but then makes us open the blinds. Anyway, I didn't think this was a problem. We went to a friends house and she wouldn't stop staying that she's never seen a kid so obsessed with lights. He went into every room and wanted a light turned on/off. And he kept pointing and counting all the lights {they had recessed lighting, so there were many} Now, she isn't the first to mention how odd it was that he loved lights. I just blew it off, but now I am wondering if there is more to it? I don't even know what that "more" could be, but the worry wart I am, I worry. Is this just a phase? I don't want to call the doctor, that seems overboard, but didn't know who else to ask.... so I am asking my internet buds. Woud you be concerned about this? He's been doing this for about a month or so. Thank you so much!

 

Oh, this was my nephew when he was that age! We were so worried. We (me, my mom and my other sister) searched the internet often to see if we could get an answer to why he liked lights and fans so much! He ended up outgrowing it. He is now the smartest little 4 year old I know!

 

Mine do the same they love turning the lights on/off in every room. I have a ceiling fan w/a light in my living room that I only put on when guests come over or we are putting something together stuff like that and they torture me all day to put it on but it's so bright so I just say it's broke. If I don't turn a light on when entering or off when leaving a room one of them will say "mom light" so yeah hopefully it's a phase along with them repeating that a toy is broken ALL day long because the batteries ran out which is most of their toys from xmas...I have to get batteries!

 

QUOTE(seamusnicholas @ Jan 21 2008, 11:19 AM) [snapback]582573[/snapback]
Oh, this was my nephew when he was that age! We were so worried. We (me, my mom and my other sister) searched the internet often to see if we could get an answer to why he liked lights and fans so much! He ended up outgrowing it. He is now the smartest little 4 year old I know!



My Joe is aparently in good company and is obsessed with (among other things) lights and fans as well.

 

Oh thank God I asked! I was really worrying myself silly! I did think it was a phase, but people get to me and I started making it to much more. I really don't mind this at all, mainly because the lights he mostly wants on are the ones we would put on anyway... but you know how the mind works, especially a {first time} moms. Thank ladies!!


Anyone else??

 

Lizzie - Luke does the same thing. Loves to turn them on & off all the time. We went to Subway the other day & they had probably 5 ceiling fans in there & he didn't take his eyes off of them the whole time we were there. I remember a couple of the other kids being the same way, definitely a phase!

Oh, forgot to add, I totally get the worrying thing. It's amazing the things that will worry me sometimes!

 

Liz, my Clare is absolutely obsessed with lights too. She will scream if one is burnt out. She points and says "ights" "ights" "ights" all day long.

 

I think it's one of the first things that they figure out can change or can be controlled, so they get all excited about the lights going on and off. Just my not-too-scientific- theory, but we have some of the same going on here.

And I'm a worrier, too. :hug99:

 

Oh, I am SO happy I asked! I was really reading way to much into it. <_< Thanks ladies!!! :friends:

 

Nate & Gabe are both obsessed with lights. And Gabe is obsessed with opening/closing the door. I joke and call him my little OCD boy.

 

Don't worry at all! Kevin is known as our little electrician! He is going to rewire my house in a couple of years! I am going to save a bundle on labor!

 

QUOTE(Sarah© @ Jan 21 2008, 04:18 PM) [snapback]582778[/snapback]
Kevin is known as our little electrician! He is going to rewire my house in a couple of years! I am going to save a bundle on labor!


:lol: That's our joke with Anthony, that he'll be an electrician. :lol:

Thank you all so much again. This really has helped me calm down.

 

Both of my girls LOVE lights. They love to look at them, they love to turn them on and off...and on and off...and on and off and they love to say the word and point to them everywhere we go. They are fascinated that this switch can make the light go on and off. I think that they are just fascinated with the fact that they can manipulate and control something in this world, kwim? I think they are also amazed that there are different kinds of light switches. In my girls bedroom we have the push button with a dimmer and then we have the regular light switches and then we have different kinds of lamps that turn off and on in different ways. Your son sounds very normal to me and I think it is more or less a phase. My dd Arwen is obssessed with spoons if that makes you feel better. She has to have a spoon with her pretty much everywhere we go. Baby plastic spoons, regular silver spoons, my big cooking spoons. Doesn't matter as long as it's a spoon. She even takes one to sleep most nights.

 

QUOTE(double-or-nothing @ Jan 21 2008, 02:36 PM) [snapback]582905[/snapback]
My dd Arwen is obssessed with spoons if that makes you feel better. She has to have a spoon with her pretty much everywhere we go. Baby plastic spoons, regular silver spoons, my big cooking spoons. Doesn't matter as long as it's a spoon. She even takes one to sleep most nights.



This makes me laugh... Maybe she'll be a cook when she grows up (or a glutton. JK)

 

QUOTE(double-or-nothing @ Jan 21 2008, 05:36 PM) [snapback]582905[/snapback]
My dd Arwen is obssessed with spoons if that makes you feel better. She has to have a spoon with her pretty much everywhere we go. Baby plastic spoons, regular silver spoons, my big cooking spoons. Doesn't matter as long as it's a spoon. She even takes one to sleep most nights.


That's pretty cute.

Thanks for sharing your story, it really does make alot more sense now why he is in love with the lights! :hug99:

 

QUOTE(double-or-nothing @ Jan 21 2008, 05:36 PM) [snapback]582905[/snapback]
My dd Arwen is obssessed with spoons if that makes you feel better. She has to have a spoon with her pretty much everywhere we go. Baby plastic spoons, regular silver spoons, my big cooking spoons. Doesn't matter as long as it's a spoon. She even takes one to sleep most nights.


Have you been showing her the Matrix? There is no spoon.

 

I had to laugh when I saw the title for this, b/c that's my ds!!! The biggest fits he's ever thrown were b/c he wasn't allowed to turn a light off. And we joke, too, that he's our little electrician. I actually had to take packaging tape & cover up the light switches by the couch that he would climb up on & turn off & on. Not really a big deal, except one of the switches goes to the ceiling fan that's been wobbly pretty bad lately so I didn't want it on & falling down.

We went to a playdate recently & ds did not want down out of my arms.....until he saw that little Fisher Price toy, the one that's like a house & has a mailbox, door, etc - and a LIGHT SWITCH. I said, "We need one of those at home!" His very own light switch, just his perfect size.