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Talk to others about child development and behaviour stages here. You can find more information on our development calendar.

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Behaviour/development

You reap what you sow - ???

16 replies

TeeCee · 07/01/2007 22:13

Do you think that all the grief you gave your parents / guardians comes back and bites you, firmly, on the bum?

My mum always used to say to me 'just you wait till you have children'.

Now I know what she meant.

I am strong-willed, stubborn, I like my own way, I'm passionate, fiesty, fiery, mad, fun, sensitive.

But put that into a ball and plant it inside a 5 year old with specail needs and a 1 year old and .... what have I done?

What do you reckon, are your kids you when you were a kid?

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ledodgy · 07/01/2007 22:15

Yes I was a terror when I was little had lots of tantrums etc while at home though was an angel anywhere else like at school and in other people's houses. My 3 year old dd is exactly like that and I now sound exactly like my mum right down to the faces I knwo i'm pulling!

TeeCee · 07/01/2007 22:18

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ledodgy · 08/01/2007 11:51

Bump because I think this is a good thread.

MassiveBoobs · 08/01/2007 11:58

Dh cried constantly when awake for the first six months of his life but slept well. I was calm but hardly ever slept. Guess which sides of us DS has inherited?

HuwEdwards · 08/01/2007 12:00

I never stopped talking when I was a kid - all my school reports in primary school mention it.

DD1 is just the same, hardly stops to draw breath....

Carmenere · 08/01/2007 12:02

Oh YES! The only time my mother ever lifted her hand to me was over trying to brush my hair(she lifted me by my arma and leg and shook me, so not exactly a beating, I was 5 and diddn't speak to her for 48hours). I had long tangly hair and wouldn't let her brush it before school.
And now I have a dd with long and tangly hair who doesn't let me brush it. Ironic? No just payback

TeeCee · 10/01/2007 09:59

Ohhh I thought this was another of my thread that had died a death!
Well It's interesting to read your posts.

My DD also does this thing where she has to have the last , not word but, something on the subject.
So if I say 'Leave that alone please', she'll just have to touch it again once more, just ever so slightly with the tip of her finger or side of her hand.

I did this exact thing to my mother my whole life.

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Tortington · 10/01/2007 10:03

no i was quiet, unassuming, didn't want to be a bother to my widowed mum.

i have three roudy kids

love the noise sometimes

sometimes wish i was that only child again

liath · 10/01/2007 10:04

According to my mum, dd is a carbon copy of me (behaviour-wise, she looks the double of DH) - which is good because I was a fairly easy child once I was out of the clingy phase and a very boring responsible teenager ! My sister's ds definitely has her stubborn streak but hasn't started the breath-holding tantrums that were her speciality - will watch and wait !

brimfull · 10/01/2007 10:07

my dd was and is a very easy compliant person ,but ds has definately been sent to stop me feeling smug about my wonderful parenting skills . He has a temper like me ,which astonishes me at times ,although is also very loving...thank god!

My mother also used to say "well I hope you have a dd like you some day"...not in a nice way .

TheArmadillo · 10/01/2007 10:09

ds is a carbon copy of dp.

I was a good child (getting told off really upset me so I tried ot avoid it).

lets just say ds is about the opposite

He's independant (won't let you do anything for him and keeps trying to do things like change his nappy himself)

He's the most stubborn person I know next to dp.

HE's cheeky and loves winding people up.

At the moment his favourite thing is to do something naughty and then grin at you and say 'oh dear, little rascal'

Love him to bits and wouldn't have him any other way, but so understand MIL when she sys how difficult dp was as a child.

TheArmadillo · 10/01/2007 10:10

OTOH at least I know how to handle him - same way as dp

noogles · 10/01/2007 10:13

Yes yes yes. Ds is very stubborn,and has to be centre of attention!!! Very good at being over dramatic and has dp wrapped right round his little finger. Just like mummy - hee hee.

My mum tells me all the time how alike we are, as he has never been a sleeper and neither was I. At one point when I was small drs wanted to medicate me as they thought I was hyperactive but my mum refused and I grew out of it,just calmed down (sort of! ) as I got older.

And tee cee my ds does the exact same thing,he has to have the last touch,word face pull!!! DP swears its like having a clone in the house

bootsmonkey · 10/01/2007 10:14

ooooh TeeCee - my DD does that too. She also has to have the last word and will argue black is white in order to do so sometimes. Drives me mad. Can't think where she gets it from!

TeeCee · 10/01/2007 10:23

LOL!

If I had a penny for everytime DD1 does something and a family memeber or friend will say "ohhhh wonder where she get's that? "

God help me!

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staceym11 · 10/01/2007 10:48

now my dd is only 2 but she is exactly the same as i was when i was little, a madam.......hmmmmmmm yeah defiantely reap what you sow!

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