6 year old with a foot fetish what do you do ?

[willie1107]

Is it normal that a 6 year old child is obsessed with feet  not anybodies feet just his grandmothers and his aunties feet he sneaks around to get to our feet tries to hide our shoes , and also he has grabbed my foot and wanted to put it on his head. I have watched him look around to see if any one is looking  when he wants to go after mine and my daughter in laws feet . I am his grandmother and when I have him for a sleep over I have woken up to him holding my foot on his private parts. this has become very disturbing to me and I don"t know how to deal with it.help if any one has any answers to this I have now got to the point that I don"t want him to sleep over any more It seems like the only thing that he thinks about. I do remember when he was a baby he and we thought at the time it was cute feel asleep on my daughter in laws ankles and even then he was attracted to feet he was very young. I am just hoping that thisnot a pycologicial  problem. sorry for the spelling ....Also to add to this , this little boy lives in a very loving family , there is nothing out of the ordinary going on . as far as we know.... so please help if you can ....

[Gryff99]

Supressing this with make it bite you later in life, ask him to stop, but don't smother it out.

[paxasisprime]

Asking a child to stop is essentially suppression . Trust me if you ask him to stop he will find another woman who will be willing to indulge him . That woman will seem more like a mother or aunt than the other women and he will grow closer to her and further from you .

Stroonly consider that this is a child acting on a common impulse. I'm sure he crawls on your feet when your feet are crossed as well. Spanking him will make the impulse grow . Let the fetish die because he will grow tired of your feet .

[nightwolf11949]

I can remember I was like that when I was his age. It's something that at times has allot of control over your emotions and can affect your daily life. I know it has with me to the extent of seeking medical help. I've been to doctors, sociologist, and even head doctors. They all have different views, but they all say the same thing in the end which is don't worry about it, because it's not harmful. But the fact is, it's still interfering is other people's life's.
Some doctors say it has to do with hormones, others say it has to do with electrolytes, but the fact is, there are so many people who have this issue. I know in my case, I won't date anyone unless I know it's ok to sleep at there feet. Yet, I'm not interested in the feet itself. I seem to crave the scent of feet when there not washed or if someone is wearing old slippers for the day. It don't drive me to be anymore sexual, it just has a calming affect as if nothing in the world is wrong anymore. Or a sense of security. I think to deal with this is to find out the affect it has on him since everyone is different, then go from there. Because in some cases, there is no pill for this and no real good reason why it happens to some people. I am now 62, and nothing has changed. I never grew out of it, and the lack of control I have with the scent of feet has never changed. So I totally understand were your coming from and your concerns.  

[nightwolf11949]

I can remember I was like that when I was his age. It's something that at times has allot of control over your emotions and can affect your daily life. I know it has with me to the extent of seeking medical help. I've been to doctors, sociologist, and even head doctors. They all have different views, but they all say the same thing in the end which is don't worry about it, because it's not harmful. But the fact is, it's still interfering is other people's life's.
Some doctors say it has to do with hormones, others say it has to do with electrolytes, but the fact is, there are so many people who have this issue. I know in my case, I won't date anyone unless I know it's ok to sleep at there feet. Yet, I'm not interested in the feet itself. I seem to crave the scent of feet when there not washed or if someone is wearing old slippers for the day. It don't drive me to be anymore sexual, it just has a calming affect as if nothing in the world is wrong anymore. Or a sense of security. I think to deal with this is to find out the affect it has on him since everyone is different, then go from there. Because in some cases, there is no pill for this and no real good reason why it happens to some people. I am now 62, and nothing has changed. I never grew out of it, and the lack of control I have with the scent of feet has never changed. So I totally understand were your coming from and your concerns.  

[Gina04]

Sometimes kids have things that they are just really into.  This can be especially true if he has any kind of autism spectrum disorder.  If you suspect an ASD at all and he hasn't been evaluated, I would do so right away.  Regardless of the ASD or not, I would work on lovingly telling him what is appropriate and what is not.  Each time he grabs for someone's feet or shoes, I would kind of pull him aside and let him know that those do not belong to him and that it is not okay to do this with other people's feet or shoes.