It can be difficult as a parent to understand what to do when a young child becomes fixated on something. How do you cope? Do you go along with it, try and reason with them, or use a firm but gentle approach and refuse to indulge their predilection? Fixations can take all sorts of forms: A child may only want to eat a single food for breakfast, lunch and dinner. A child may only want to watch a single type of movie again and again. A child may constantly complain that all their clothes make them itchy. A child may be fixated on an idea or character. For instance, they may insist that their room needs to be plastered with rainbows or unicorns. Look for a Cause What you think of silly or strange behavior may have a hidden cause. Since they have budding language skills, they may not be expressing the idea in a way that makes sense to you. For instance: They may like only one kind of food because they may have undetected food allergies and they find only one kind of food satisfying. In that case, the solution may be to find other foods that don’t…