So, DD2 has been in character as....a parrot....for three weeks, and I can't hear 1 more 'Pretty Polly', I just can't.

[keeptakingthetablets]

Admittedly, she's been hysterically funny at times, but she's back at school on Monday, she reckons school uniforms make rubbish feathers, she is using "Parrots do/don't like that" as a blanket excuse for all manner of behaviour, and heaven help us if she caws at the teacher the way she did at some poor woman in Tesco yesterday.

How do I kill off this alter ego? Can I set an imaginary cat on her?

She's bloody-minded enough to just keep going, even in school. Does this sort of thing come up in disclosure checks? "Nice woman, but seems to be raising her child as a parrot".

It's funny, but getting not so, IYKWIM......help.....

[seeker]

My dd was a pencil for about 6 months when she was 4!

[keeptakingthetablets]

Oh God........

[Washersaurus]

Give her a cuttlefish and some bird seed for breakfast in the morning and see how amusing she finds it

[MrsWeasley]

my DS was a chimp

[keeptakingthetablets]

There are precedents whereby I might have to live with this till MAY!!!

[moljam]

my ds1 was peter pan.his nursery teacher refused to call him peter so he got in lots of trouble.

[MrsWeasley]

then he was an oinky (pig)

He is 7 and wakes up every day and asks "What shall I be today mummy?" I suggest a litle boy and he tell me not to be silly!!

[keeptakingthetablets]

ROFL, washer, thought of that one, but am alarmed lest she sees it as an invitation to crap on the floor....



Chimp would be worse, admittedly!

[choosyfloosy]

can you put a cloth over her cage when you need a few minutes' peace??

oh blimey, ds turns 4 in a week, sh*teburgers!

[moljam]

choosyfloosy !!!fantastic idea

[Washersaurus]

Good excuse to lock her in a cage though huh? Go on you ARE tempted.......

[keeptakingthetablets]

You're all as bad as she is.

[wannaBe]

put her in a cage. .

Did you know that parrots have the inteligence of a 5 year old child?

[moljam]

pretty polly

[keeptakingthetablets]

You are the devil.

[Washersaurus]

Anyway, if she is a well trained parrot, she will crap on the sand paper rather than the floor

[wannaBe]

and if she should be trained to sit in one place, i.e. on her perch, so as not to destroy your furniture,

[keeptakingthetablets]

She is not a well trained parrot.

[wannaBe]

perhaps you could sell her to the local pirates, lol.

[moljam]

maybe she was a parrot in a previous life.

[Washersaurus]

I do feel for you really . I'm sure it is just a short phase

[OverRated]

lol

DS has been a frog recently. He hops around saying "Libbit, libbit"

And then he makes me be a train. "Go choo choo mummy. Say Choo choo"

[keeptakingthetablets]

She has a perch. She made it from kitchen roll tubes taped together.

I am facilitating this madness. How do you convinve a five year old they're human?

[bubblerock]

I think my parrot has more intelligence than DH! Last week he was taunting charlie (parrot) by saying 'I got no ears' over and over - this week Charlie has been saying 'I got ears', 'I got ears' LOL

[Washersaurus]

Offer her chocolate/sweets...tell her parrots die/get very poorly if they eat chocolate, whereas little girls don't