Is our 2 year old too attached, or is she normal?

[NewJeffCT]

our daughter is almost 2 years old and is a real daddy's girl so far in her life. I'm sure that will change once she starts having boys chase after her...

Anyhow, I've always been pretty affectionate around my wife in the house - little kisses, hugs, shoulder rubs, etc. Lately, however, if I try to do this, my daughter will get mad and run up to me and try to break it up saying, "Daddy hold you" or if we're upstairs and she wants to watch something on the big TV, she'll say, "Shrek Big TV"... I'll ask her if Mommy can come down, too, and she'll go "no" or "no mommy"

Now, is this kind of normal at this age, or is she getting too attached to me? If she is too attached, what can we do?

[kick-ass-bob]

1. Absolutely normal.

You are hers and only hers - no sharing allowed. It will pass...

[snacker]

2. Sounds like an absolutely normal Electra complex to me.

[tjdee]

3. I think this is a normal phase.

I've heard and read about that before.

I didn't pay attention too much, LOL (I'm a single parent) but that seems to be normal. Heck, sometimes my kid will go "You stay over there." (She's 5)

[TexasSissy]

4. She's too attached.

[Droopy]

5. My little 2 year old niece is the same way with her daddy

I don't see how you can say a kid that young is too attached. They are supposed to be attached at that age.

[tjdee]

7. I agree.

She's two!

If she's doing this at 10, *then* it's a problem LOL.

[SW FL Dem]

6. Absolutely normal

At that age girls get jealous of Mom and boys get jealous of Dad. For boys it's called the Oedipus complex, I don't remember what they call it for girls. Enjoy it, soon enough she won't want to be seen in the same room with you.

[AlCzervik]

8. normal-totally, she may also go through that phase with her Mom

"No Daddy". thats what happened with my daughter, she went through that phase with both of us.

[last_texas_dem]

9. If not typical, normal

From stories I've heard, kids two and three years of age do a lot of things like that that seem odd to us adults. I don't speak from experience myself, not being a parent myself, but I have heard similar stories to yours. It may not be "normal" in the sense that a majority of kids do it, but it seems "normal" in the sense that no harm is likely to come of it. So it's normal, if not typical. I know my sister did the opposite; she resented my dad throughout her baby and toddler years simply because five days a week he would leave her during the day to go to work! She snubbed him quite a bit, actually, but by the time she was starting school she had become a "daddy's girl." So I figure your scenario is nothing to worry about; just funny little kid stuff...

[ogradda]

10. very normal. n/t

[Blue Diadem]

11. Perfectly normal

We have a little granddaughter who will be 2 in May. She is the same way.

Our other granddaughter is 5. She was the same way and is still a Daddy's girl.

[JVS]

12. Don't sweat it! What's the worst that can happen?

[Midlodemocrat]

13. Electra complex.

Unfortunately for you, this too shall pass. Totally normal at her age and sometimes can last for the better part of a year.

[NewJeffCT]

14. It's tiring, I wish it would pass

If I'm home, I'm the one that has to put her to sleep at night and she jumps around in bed and won't go to sleep for a while. And, if I try to walk away while she's jumping around in bed... non stop screaming.

If I'm not around, my wife can practically toss her into bed and she'll fall right asleep. Same if she stays over my mom's house. Same thing during the daytime for her afternoon nap.

[Nay]

15. Enjoy it now, Dad, because pretty soon you'll be out and Mom

will be in. My son did this with me (the mom) when he was this age, and for about a year or two. Then dad was the favorite. Then mom again, then he like both of us pretty well. Now, as a 19-yr-old, he thinks we're both too dumb to live.(!)

Perfectly normal.