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Babies and hoovers

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PiccadillyCircus · 26/04/2006 16:18

DS (2.5) has been scared of the hoover for what seems like ever, but at least he knows it will stop now and can choose to go into another room while it is happening.

Today DD (7 months) has decided that she hates hoovers too. It would be the day I decide to clean the living room properly. I am hooving in very short bursts.

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CarolinaMoonfish · 26/04/2006 16:20

ds (18mo) has got progressively more scared of it and can't even look at it now Shock

not much hoovering gets done atm Chez Moon...

Glad to hear there's light at the end of the tunnel Smile

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Umm · 26/04/2006 17:01

My ds(6mnths) is terrifed of the hoover and screams as loud as he can if he hears the hoover. I can only hoover when dh has got him in another room!

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cataloguequeen · 26/04/2006 17:05

encourage him to have a go of the hoover my dd2 was like that at first... now she loves helping out!Smile

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all4girlz · 26/04/2006 17:55

I did that with dd2 now 5 bought her her own mini dyson too
they love helpingWink
dd3 just used to ride on it thought it was funny
(my poor back didn't)
they are all different

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Bellie · 26/04/2006 18:10

dd used to scream the place down if she could hear the hoover - it got to the point that dh had to take her out of the house!!
We left the hoover out in the lounge all the time so she got used to it being there and gradually she started to get closer to it and then touch it. The we tried turning it on - which put us back to square one, until she turned in on herself which she thought was fab fun!
She is now the only 1.5 year old that I know that says hello to the hoover and kisses it when we put it away!! Hope this helps

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tjacksonpfc · 27/04/2006 05:07

out of curiosity have you all got dysons coz my dd 21 months was scared stiff of the dyson but we have now got a new hoover which isnt a dyson and shes fine with that.

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carla · 27/04/2006 06:45

dds are 7 and 6 and still object to the sound of the hoover.

That's my excuse, anyway! Grin

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Oblomov · 27/04/2006 07:00

Ds ( 2.2) has been frightened of the hoover right from the start.

But like cataloguequeen & all4girlz, he loves "helping" - he polishes , is obsessed with using floor wipes to 'help' clean the kitchen floor.

Dh - miracle worker that he is - got ds over his fear of hoovers and had ds 'helping daddy push the hoover'.

And then last week, for no apparent reason, TOTAL screaming - even wines as you start to get it out of the cupboard.

.....

Will have to get dh - the miracle worker - on the case again
... and again
and again
I fear !!!

Meanwhile, cousin ds ( 1.8) loves the hoover and like all4girlz , has his own mini dyson.

There is no logic to it all, is there ?

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purplemonkeydishwasher · 27/04/2006 07:35

I'm glad that my DS isn't the only one. WE've got a dog and I really should be hoovering more but I just can't deal with the screaming! We have to take him out of the room as well.
It's very annoying cause he was fine with it then one day I guess it startled him when we turned it on and now aaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

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Wembley · 27/04/2006 07:52

my 2 children are scared of the hoover too! I also have a dog purplemonkey but the dog doesn't like it either!!!! Interestingly though I do have a dyson

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wishfulthinking · 27/04/2006 08:16

My dd (2.2) is scared stiff too but we don't have a Dyson. We bought her one for her second birthday in the hope etc....didn't work. She shudders and looks totally petrified. She can be quite obsessive about it acutally and whenever we go to Grandma's, the first thing we have to do is go and say 'hello' to it. In Comet, Curry's etc we always have to go and have a (long) look at them....a bit like being terrified of snakes but wanting to look at them all the same IYKWIM!!!

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panicpants · 27/04/2006 08:22

8mth ds scared stiff of hoover (dyson hmmm) he knows where it's kept and if I go to the understairs cupbored (for anything, doesn't have to be the hoover) he starts to cry.

I mentioned it to hv and she said not to pander to him, or comfort him but to just keep doing it and smile and chatter to him and he'll grow out of it (!)

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panicpants · 27/04/2006 08:23

Oh yes wishful thinking, we definitly get the 'shudders' as well!

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lahdeedah · 27/04/2006 09:10

another dyson owner here - my 13mo is terrified of it! She is also scared of our step-ladder....

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tjacksonpfc · 27/04/2006 09:17

maybe we should write to dyson and say that they dont tell you when you buy one that it will traumatise your kids aswell as hoover the carpets well

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JonesTheSteam · 27/04/2006 09:19

DS (2.6) is scared of the hoover, but like your dd, PiccadillyCircus, at least now he knows he can take himself off to the other room.

I think it's a noise thing, he doesn't seem to like any white noise - hates the hairdryer, hates it when the TV is put on a channel that isn't tuned in, same with the radio.

But then my son is a complete whuss - going through a stage at the moment - posted about it yesterday.

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carla · 27/04/2006 09:19

We've got through two Dysons, a Miele, and two Morphy Richard's Cat and Dog since dds were born. I don't think it makes a jot of difference what make they are, they all had the same effect on dds.

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PiccadillyCircus · 27/04/2006 12:03

Ours isn't a dyson. And I think DS (and DD now showing the same signs) don't like noises ie hairdryer, blender as well).

I was hoping DD was going to be OK (good thing we only have carpet in two room and the stairs/hallway).

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arfy · 27/04/2006 12:05

DD (nearly 17months) HATES the hoover. She backs against the wall and cries...saw some friends yesterday and both their boys love the hoover, and in fact we pretending to hoover with sticks in the garden. i was quite jealous - our floors are a disgrace

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arfy · 27/04/2006 12:05

were not we

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katylou25 · 27/04/2006 12:30

Another hoover hater in our house! Can only get it out when Dh home to take ds (15mths) out of way. Otherwise he follows it around, screaming, shaking and then clings to me for the rest of the day. It's a dyson by the way.

Is only a recent thing though - started at about 10 months before that he just ignored it.

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Bozza · 27/04/2006 12:34

DD (23 months) has been scared of it for ages. She is OK with it in the room. She is also scared of other things that make a noise and move - mixer (let alone blender), radio controlled car etc However she has DS's old toy one and loves playing with that.

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springerspaniel · 27/04/2006 21:22

If I hold my v v heavy 9 month old on my hip and quickly hoover the living room (e.g. in emergency mother in law arriving any minute mode), he giggles and thinks it is hilarious! I wouldn't dare do it without holding him because he can crawl now and chasing after it, trying to grab it - am frightened of little fingers getting sucked up.

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springerspaniel · 27/04/2006 21:23

...He also thinks the hairdryer is mildly amusing. Think he is not scared because when he was tiny, I used them both as devices for getting him to sleep.

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zippitippitoes · 27/04/2006 21:31

dgs loves the hoover and we can spend any amount of time in hoover worship..we sit next to it admiring it but if it's switched on he freaks..but his favourite thing is holding anything hoover like and making noises or looking at the hoover pages in argos catalogue..he has a pretend dyson and we have a henry but he also has a robot claw hand that he pretend hoovers with

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