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AIBU?

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To get frustrated with my DS being so bloody boisterous?

28 replies

funandsafe · 25/06/2025 19:45

I love him obviously but I do find his boisterous nature and exuberance exhausting and often frustrating.

Ask him to get something and he hurtles towards it at 100 miles an hour. He charges around crashing into things and knocking them over. He cannot sit still. This afternoon he was lying on my lap watching some TV and he just kept jerking about constantly. He finished a yoghurt earlier and for some unknown reason hurled the empty pot across the room.

It is so tiring. And no I don’t think he’s got adhd before anyone starts … but does anyone else have a 100 miles an hour kid?

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Theunamedcat · 25/06/2025 19:52

Wait till he is 16 and comes gallumping into your room in the early hours of the morning to discuss attacks on Iran or the Ukraine

funandsafe · 25/06/2025 19:50

Yes, he’s four! He’s lovely, don’t get me wrong, but my god he exhausts me and I wish he’d sit still for two minutes! I do have another child who thankfully is a bit more laid back as great as he is I’m not sure I could cope with two from the same mould!

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Olinguita · 25/06/2025 19:48

I have one of those! Is he 3 or 4 by any chance?
I hear you OP, it can be very tiring and parents of more mellow children don't really get how draining it is at times. Solidarity.