Detail-oriented...

Here's something that I've not seen before. I thought I'd seen all (or most) things that cause a 3-year-old to be upset. Not getting the color you desire in an object you desire is a common cause. K (3) demonstrated upset-about-color today very well. She got to ride a pony, but she was angry (screaming, kicking mad) because she didn't get to ride the white pony. Arrgh. We got past that one.

Then we came home and she went to the bathroom. She got upset because a piece of toliet paper wasn't torn on the performations. It was torn in the middle and not straight.

As MWH said, "It brings new meaning to the term anal-retentive."

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From the Wikipedia enty on Anal-Retentive:

Conversationally, the term is often used to describe a person deemed to be overly obsessed with minor details. Its roots are said to be from Sigmund Freud.

The term is often used in a derogatory sense to describe a person with such attention to detail that the obsession becomes an annoyance to others, and can be carried out to the detriment of the so-called anal-retentive person. )