My friend's child who is two years and five months old likes to draw over and scratch out people's faces in photographs/pictures. Given a newspaper, she will specifically focus and draw over/obliterate faces in photographs and not any other areas. What does it mean and is there cause for concern?
2007-03-18 02:41:04 · 10 answers · asked by GS 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
Maybe its a way to entertain themselfs because they have no other way of doing so.
2007-03-18 02:49:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kids that age don't pay attention much to what they are drawing (or painting, or whatever the art). Their focus is on the feel of the crayon, the play-doh, the color the marker makes as it streaks across the paper. Often they do not even recognize their own work when you display it and talk about it later.... they just like the action of DOING it. Don't read too deeply into this one. It doesn't mean anything bad.
-or - She may just like faces. Maybe she thinks she is putting make up on them.
2007-03-18 11:35:29 · answer #2 · answered by Angie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For a 2 year old? It means nothing.
My daughter is 21 months and loves to color. She usually colors faces, hands and feet.
If she is using a pen it looks like she is obliterating the face, but reality is she is just coloring.
Jeesh, why do all kids have to have "problems", no wonder our youth get drugged all the time.
2007-03-18 02:45:33 · answer #3 · answered by Gem 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it means anything. If she was 5 and doing that I would say that wasn't really normal. But she's 2 - that's what 2 year olds do. Wait and see if she still does it when she's 3 and 4.
2007-03-18 02:47:10 · answer #4 · answered by charlie 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am a school librarian, and I can tell you that when baby brothers and sisters get ahold of library books and scribble in them, most of the time it is over the character's face. I have no idea why. Maybe because that's the part of the picture they identify with the most?
2007-03-18 02:44:17 · answer #5 · answered by bibliophile31 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They all do that, they just want to colour and the first place they focus on is the face. You are reading too much into this.
2007-03-18 02:45:50 · answer #6 · answered by Stuck in the middle of nowhere 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it's normal
she's learning to color
my little one did that at first too but now she colors the whole page get some coloring books and crayons
2007-03-18 03:15:39 · answer #7 · answered by Greeneyed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's what that girl did in "The Ring."
< creepy >
The child could be going though an awkward phase; it will pass.
2007-03-18 02:45:53 · answer #8 · answered by Jacques 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Maybe she is shy and doesn't like the people in the pictures to look at her.
2007-03-18 02:43:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
your friend has a creative and humerous child- that is awesome. encourage it!
2007-03-18 02:46:36 · answer #10 · answered by pjc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋