Been told my child is very weird and childish

Sounds to me like she's a 10yr old child a child is supposed to act childish, that mum can f off

Patronizing and nonsense.

Oh do fuck off!

Girlie day and shopping? Hell! Take her somewhere interesting fgs.

The weirdness is not accepting that the other kids are not amused by her antics, and continuing to do it long after the joke's over.

Not really - v quick google search. Poop is normal though and is def a topic discussed by 10YO I.e. not weird.

You seem almost as obsessed with poo as op's daughter, @Acornsoup !

Waterstones has 682 books about Poop. They have 5 for ages 9+ including 1 for teens. There are entire books of poetry dedicated to poop. Also there's the diarrhoea song and Dr Poo from the Viz which definitely isn't aimed at kids. Tell me again random stranger how Poo or Poop is not a topic for 10YO.

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Can you imagine, it would get round the other parents that the dd got her odd behaviour from her mum quicker than a dose of the shits

No one in rl does a tinkly laugh and a head tilt . Madness

Thing is even if ops daughter was or is doing it to fit in and be funny it’s not working it’s actually alienating her more. Op wanted to know what the issues may be.

Im not expecting girls to fit into some tiny perfect box. One of mine is actually stem school where girls are the minority trying to fight the system of getting girls into stem I’m all for outside the box.

But poo funny hehehehe at 10 isn’t funny, she’s been told it isn’t. Her peers tell her it isn’t. She’s still insistent though.

@YorkshireTeaBiscuits

yeah she would. No one behaves like that in real life. “Tinkly laugh”?! No. Just no.

Sorry but i would find this weird for a 10 year old girl to go round saying this, it's odd. I have a ds10 but none of the girls in his class would do this, even the summer babies.

You've had some good advice here so I hope you manage to navigate this with luck.

And even if they were, there's a difference between a poo joke (not my humour at all but a lot of kids/adults find it funny) and just saying, "I like poo."

it seems to be more about the inability to follow guidance from mum not to do this (as people not finding it funny) and about the social skills to build positive relationships… replace poo with any other irritating attention seeking behaviour it doesn’t matter, the principle Is the same

Those 40 books are not aimed at 10 year old.

There's only about 40 kids books about poo on Amazon 🤣 My fav when mine were that age was about a Mole. He didn't like poo either.

I agree that is unsettling to be saying to other kids but could it come from a book? I can’t remember the name exactly ‘Captain Underpants’? It reminds me of part of this cartoon but I might be wrong.

The school said that she's less mature than her peers because she's an August birthday. This child is nearly 11. The behaviour OP describes would be immature for an 8 year old.

Walking up to strangers and saying "I like poop" is not normal behaviour for a 10 year old, and it's not just a bit quirky, it's miles outside of social norms and for good reason. There is something wrong. Some posters are saying that something could potentially be autism, based on their own experiences of autism.

Schools are completely useless at noticing ND, especially in girls. The private service which helped my stepdaughter obtain her diagnosis actually took it upon herself to write to the school, copying in other professionals, to say she was appalled they hadn't picked up on "very obvious combined type ADHD". My school reports are basically a run down of ADHD symptoms and I was diagnosed at 24. I don't consider schools' opinions to be of any worth at all.

@Suzieandthemonkeyfeet i agree with all of your comments on this thread. People are so quick to want a diagnosis as a reason for a child just acting like a child. All these unnecessary labels do more harm than good. Some of the responses on here show why the world is so messed up 🥴

They don’t enjoy her telling them she likes poo

Something you could perhaps try, OP, is to give your daughter a bit more responsibility - to encourage her to mature a little.

Only things like making her bed, helping to plan what you eat, asking for things in shops etc.

What do they mean exactly? I bet it’s not into certain types of music, make up and social media and good for her. I bet that your dd is brilliant. Girls and women can get shut down by society controlling them so let her continue to be her outstanding self.

How about the group of students Op's dc is annoying all the time laughing loudly at her as their authentic inner feeling is that OP's dd is being ridiculous or telling her that she's weird and annoying, as this reflects their authentic feelings?

Too late, I'm guessing this post is designed to make posters talk about 💩- mission accomplished. What a waste of time. I'm sure OP's dd will do just great, expressing her inner most interest in 💩 👌.