I posted a similar thread a while back asking if finding words like 'poohead' hilarious was just a boy thing. DD never took the slightest interest in such things yet DS, now 2 1/2, will collapse in fits of laughter at the mention of words like poo, bottom, bum, you get the idea. Anyway, loads of you wrote back and said, no, your dds found such things highly amusing as well.
Well here's another one for you.
DS has just spent the entire weekend fighting, killing & chopping people's heads off. First DD wanted to play birthdays but DS wanted to go kill some dragons. Ok, that wasn't too worrying. Then he started stabbing at DH with this foam sword and shouting I FIGHT YOU, I FIGHT YOU (and no, I did not deliberately buy my son a sword - it came with a knight's outfit I bought for my DD ages ago and she's never shown the slightest interest in it)!! Then, as if that weren't bad enough, they were playing with Pretty Polly which DS usually quite likes. Except this time he picked up a pair of plastic safety scissors and tells Pretty Polly "I going to cut your head off at the neck!!" 
DD and DS watch exactly the same television, play with mostly the same toys and I know for a fact he's not learning these games at the childminder. So tell me, is it just a boy thing?
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So tell me it's not just a boy thing (again..)
Sugarmag · 06/03/2006 13:33
btw.i think it's quite normal, as long as you remind him that it's not nice/acceptable behaviour, every now and then i suppose.
Well the thing is he didn't ACTUALLY chop pretty polly's head off - at least then I could have talked to him about treating his toys nicely etc. It's just the whole fighting thing. of course part of the problem is that he's so little that the whole thing is really quite hilarious so I find it very hard to have a "serious" chat with him about how we don't like fighting. I'm too busy laughing! 
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have I got all this to come then? I had two dds first and, like Enid's, they occasionally made shooters out of lego, and dd1 has a sword (at her request, but she doesn't fight with it, just looks at it
Now I have a ds and I am really going to have to get a grip on myself so I don't get cross over "poo-head" and fight-talk (if it happens) - argh sympathies sugarmag!
Yes def too soon to tell! In most respects DS is actually the sweeter of the two, in the sense that he's the one who doesn't like upsetting people, if I get cross he likes to make it up to me etc. He's just developed this sudden interest in fighting (and cutting pretty polly's head off of course ).
The ironic thing is, the sword actually belongs to DD. She's so into dressing up as fairies adn princesses I thought I would try and balance it out with a knight's outfit but I don't think she's worn it even once!
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