Question: My grandson has a habit of looking sideways. This does not happen all the time and there appears to be no reason for this, it seems to happen when he is walking or running past straight lines, i.e. in the library, past walls etc., although I have on odd occasions noticed him doing this whilst sitting. This times don't last for long but it is very disconcerting when I see it happening and I know my daughter worries so much about this. In all other aspects he is a healthy, bright and we think intelligent happy little 26 month old boy. We first noticed this happening when he started crawling, he was however late in crawling because he used to bottom shuffle his way around and he didn't walk on his own until he was 21 months old and since then he tends to run everywhere. When I see this strange eye behaviour happening I try to distract him. Should we be doing this or is there a more serious underlying problem going on here. I try not to make too much of it with my daughter because she is worrying so much.

Thank you so much for your reply. Should my daughter have to get a referral from her health visitor or through her Doctor to see a paediatric opthalmologist and paediatric neurologist.