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2-year-old masterbating
Hi,
I have a question pertaining to my 2-year-old and her habit of masterbating. This is so embarrassing for me and my husband.
Ever since she was around a year old (a little younger maybe, too) she has been...uh...how to say this...doing various things in order to feel a certain something *down there*. At first, we noticed she was pushing and rubbing against the thing that goes between the legs on the highchair. She would get herself going (pushing and rubbing) so much that she'd break out in a sweat, breathe heavily, and then at the end look like she was completely tired out (much like we all do after a romp in the hay). It was so embarrasing if we were with any friends or family.
As time went on, she was doing the same thing in her carseat against the part that goes between her legs. We've taken her out of the highchair, but she still finds ways to do this. She'll sit on the steps or on one of the small kid size chairs we have and squeeze her legs together while pointing her toes, and just move her hips up and down until she gets what she wants. Thank goodness she hasn't figured out she can do the same thing with her hands.
I can tell you that she has never been in a situation where anyone has touched her inappropriately. The only babysitters she has ever had are my parents and I know they haven't done anything. Her father and I are just mortified (especially him) and don't know what to do. We've scolded her for it and she just gets mad and screams and then goes back to doing it once we quit watching her. I thought maybe it was a stress reliever for her, but now I'm noticing that she's doing it at any time of the day...stressed or not.
Has anyone here had experience with something like this? I've researched and can't really find info on what to do with a 2 year old. She doesn't exactly understand me saying to only do this in her room when alone (like I've read in other advice given). I don't want to punish her and give her a complex about her sexuality for later when it's appropriate (with her future husband).
What would you do in this situation??? Help! We're even hesitant to put her in the church nursery for fear she might do this there!
I have a question pertaining to my 2-year-old and her habit of masterbating. This is so embarrassing for me and my husband.
Ever since she was around a year old (a little younger maybe, too) she has been...uh...how to say this...doing various things in order to feel a certain something *down there*. At first, we noticed she was pushing and rubbing against the thing that goes between the legs on the highchair. She would get herself going (pushing and rubbing) so much that she'd break out in a sweat, breathe heavily, and then at the end look like she was completely tired out (much like we all do after a romp in the hay). It was so embarrasing if we were with any friends or family.
As time went on, she was doing the same thing in her carseat against the part that goes between her legs. We've taken her out of the highchair, but she still finds ways to do this. She'll sit on the steps or on one of the small kid size chairs we have and squeeze her legs together while pointing her toes, and just move her hips up and down until she gets what she wants. Thank goodness she hasn't figured out she can do the same thing with her hands.
I can tell you that she has never been in a situation where anyone has touched her inappropriately. The only babysitters she has ever had are my parents and I know they haven't done anything. Her father and I are just mortified (especially him) and don't know what to do. We've scolded her for it and she just gets mad and screams and then goes back to doing it once we quit watching her. I thought maybe it was a stress reliever for her, but now I'm noticing that she's doing it at any time of the day...stressed or not.
Has anyone here had experience with something like this? I've researched and can't really find info on what to do with a 2 year old. She doesn't exactly understand me saying to only do this in her room when alone (like I've read in other advice given). I don't want to punish her and give her a complex about her sexuality for later when it's appropriate (with her future husband).
What would you do in this situation??? Help! We're even hesitant to put her in the church nursery for fear she might do this there!
My son was 5 when he first doing this and I took him to the doctor because he had what the doctor called " blue balls".... She told me it was normal and he was gonna keep doing it, because he had more harmonies than his other 5 yr olds friends... The doctor and I talked to him and it seemed to help where he wasn't doing in front of us and only in his room by himself... Talk with your doctor and yes please DO NOT punish her for this because it is very much normal!!!
,,,we went to two differant doctors in canada, for same situation with 1.5 years old ril,show the video to doctors, both did not prescribe any medication,test,etc, just said it makes baby feel good, and she will stop it once she found anything els to make her feel good
,,,we went to two differant doctors in canada, for same situation with 1.5 years old ril,show the video to doctors, both did not prescribe any medication,test,etc, just said it makes baby feel good, and she will stop it once she found anything els to make her feel good.
My son is doing the same thing he is three years old and he gets his penus hard by feeling on my stomach or my friends and he starts humping when his penus gets hard he tells me it hurts im scared!!!!
I start to masturbate since 3 years old (and now I am 37 years old). Watching porn movies accidentally almost everyday in a month, seeing naughty/ sexy pictures and photos, or watching people kissing has triggered me of getting aroused my libido, and made down there tingling and wet. I didn't know what these people were doing, but somehow it excited me a lot. My mother used to caught me a lot and asked me to stop, the more she asked me the more I did it behind her back (2 - 6 times a day). Now I am aware that it made me addicted to sex/ hyper sex with my ex-boyfriend or different men, hard for me to get orgasm from my ex-boyfriend, sometimes I need to make many variations, even not normal ones, only to get orgasm. It made me hard to have a steady relationship, because no men can satisfied my sex drive. It made me think that love is sex, and we will get love by giving sex. I will get anxiety if I don't get masturbate, even for a day, it drained my energy and ruined the way I think. Of course masturbate is normal and luckily that down there is still working to get aroused, but if it is too much and become codependent I think better to distract this action, masturbate was sort of like the only tool to release stress, made comfortable. Luckily after 34 years, my mind set have changed. I think to change this behavior, first is by not making your child getting embarrased, be patient and make your child comfortable, educate your child with love, give your child knowledge about love and sex, and understand your child a lot. I think when a child already start masturbate, based on my experience, they already know about relationship between men and women, or all. These kids are smarter actually than others, because the mind can think and behave a lot faster ahead than the normal age do, which I did, only I had problems with emotional control, means well need to be taken with special care, because they are fragile. I wish my mother did that to me when I was 3 years old, educate me and not made me embarrassed even in front of her, pretend I didn't get caught and not prohibited me, instead why not just communicate with me. I remember she asked me why I kept doing it, and I told her because it felt good, she only told me to stop because what I did was only for adult but she never told me the reason or never made me to be busy or distract me to be active with other children after school.
OMG! You have described my 2 year old to the T!!! LOL!! I mean everything.... and it all began with her kinda humping her Boppy chair when she was 6 month old. At First we were like "nah!!!.... it couldnt be!!".....! and now she is 2 and does it in her car seat ...high chair...just as you described. She has this really focused look and tenses her whole body while pointing her toes!!! Its quite funny actually .....and I totally ignore it as I feel this is normal. I am a stay at home mother and have been with her 24/7 all the days she's been on this Earth....Trust me when I say I have never left her side......so this has to be normal .....
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