Can anyone relate to this? Or help me out? DS (5 1/2) is very affectionate and compassionate and has a great big heart. Until it's time for me to eat my dinner, then he turns totally selfish - sits on my arm/knee, races around with the dog banging into my chair (we have a tiny house), bounces on his space hopper, disco dances in front of me, shouts, jumps, squeals, throws socks at the dog etc. etc. you get the picture. Some of this sounds ok but we only have one room downstairs (plus a small kitchen) so all this stuff he's doing is right in front of me. The room is split into lounge one end and play area the other end (door to kitchen in between), So half of the room is exclusively for him to go crazy in, but he comes and does all this in the lounge area where I am trying to eat. It was so bad today I took my dinner and sat outside in the rain to eat where at least it was quiet and I could move both arms. I'm at the end of my rope with this behaviour! Every other time of day he is lovely, and to be honest he's not doing anything wicked but it's like I'm just not allowed to eat my dinner. Anyone??
P.S. Just to clarify, we normally eat together and that's fine in principle but he usually finishes first and then this behaviour starts. He also sometimes eats earlier than me if he has a friend over or an activity at our normal dinner time or something.
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Son won't let me eat dinner
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kandykane77 · 17/01/2017 23:27
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