‘Everything should be sorted by rainbow color’

Sorting the products into neat piles in the queue at the checkout or sorting M&Ms by color before eating: for some children there can be just not enough order.

Chantal (36), mother of Indy (9):

“For the past year, everything in the Indy area has had to be sorted by rainbow color. At first she drew a lot of rainbows, later I noticed that the pencils, markers, trays, beads, etc. were arranged in rainbow order. And now it has the size of a little mania.

“No color should be missing, because then she will get angry”

She tries to edit the clothes of dolls in computer games using the ROGGBIV (red-orange-yellow-green-blue-indigo-violet) hue, coloring pages are painted that way by default and even the cuddly toys on her bed are in the right order. No color should be missing, because then she will get angry.

Rainbows

She herself always says that rainbows make her happy, she immediately notices when she sees a real one in the sky. The theme for her birthday this year was therefore not difficult to come up with. The streamers and balloons were well received, as was the rainbow cake that I had specially made. Unfortunately, the baker was not quite on track. Indy immediately saw that he had reversed red and orange. Fortunately, the taste was fine and she was still very happy with the surprise.”

Cleaning rage

Liesbeth (30), mother of Benjamin (7):

“In the queue at the checkout at the Mediamarkt, Benjamin builds neat stacks of the earplug boxes. When I turn around in the Etos, he has hung all the toothbrushes by color and the Ikea is completely a Valhalla, because the shoppers make more than enough mess there for Benjamin to tidy up, collect and arrange.

“If I give him a free hand, he will divide the storage drawer at home according to label colour”

I affectionately call him ‘my little autist’. I know I shouldn’t make fun of it and for now I don’t see any other characteristic in Benjamin in that direction, but I’ll keep an eye on his extreme cleanup rage. If I give him a free hand, he divides the storage drawer at home by label color or we suddenly all miss books because he didn’t think they fit well with the rest of the interior. Strangely enough, only his own room is a mess.”

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Own philosophy

Saskia (40), mother of Emma (8):

“It starts with red, then orange, yellow, green, blue and ends with brown. Before my daughter Emma puts an M&M in her mouth – only the one without peanuts – she has to select by color. I think she’s been doing that since she was about five years old. I don’t really know if she will immediately organize when she gets a bag of M&M’s.

“It calms her down and she gets angry if she doesn’t get the chance”

She has her own philosophy. Rainbows must be made in rows. She says it calms her down and she gets angry when she doesn’t get the chance. I leave her. I think it’s funny. Personally, I just randomly put them in my mouth.”

To sort

Barbara (47), mother of Emma (15) and Ruben (11):

“When my nephews come, I’m always amazed at how much noise they make when they play. They race their cars over the carpet, the tables and the floor and produce quite a lot of noise.

How different is my son Ruben. He doesn’t make fantasy shows. His idea of ​​playing with cars is to park them and group them by color and type. I have a video where he is about three years old and sits at a table with about a dozen wooden cars, while he is busy sorting them into whether or not he has a doll.

“His idea of ​​playing with cars is to park them and group them by color and type”

He now has quite a collection of Hot Wheels that he ranks according to how beautiful he thinks they are. I never asked him why he plays like that. It’s something that belongs to him, he likes order. By the way, he doesn’t do this with other toys, only with cars. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, I love to sift through the children’s Lego. Wonderfully relaxing.”

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