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…