Does anyone else have children that JUST. DO. NOT. STOP.

[Mammabear31]

2 DS, 1 & 7. They are both constantly on the go, which is fine usually but with lockdown they've developed cabin fever and it seems to have gotten worse, despite taking them out to run around alot more. I am currently sitting on the sofa while one is running around the kitchen and the other is bouncing on his trampoline - its bloody relentless!

Other kids sit nicely, we go to groups and its always one of mine that gets up, won't sit still for a second or even to eat a snack, despite us trying our best to instill this in them.

I meet myself going backwards sometimes and it is just exhausting! Is it just me?! It certainly feels like it!

Here. 3 year old twins who run around falling over and hurting themselves and jumping on and off things for 13 solid hours a day with no nap. They can't even sit still to eat. They don't even like TV much. I'm so fucking tired.

Mine are like this and are teenagers. Unusual teenagers who get up about 7 am! And keep going and going and going.

DGS(not quite 3) is getting more lunatic by the day. The best wsy of dealing with him to build a bouncy castle out of mattresses and quilts, and watch him throw himself about. There'll be a short break once an hour to inhale food, then it'll be railway disasters, followed by lunch. Then we go outside and he runs in random directions pointing at random objects, shouting their names at a volume normally heard from passing jets.

Yes, my 6yo DS. Still awake at 22.40 & will be up 07.00. NEVER stops all day. Regularly walks/cycles 4-6 miles/day. He's worse without exercise. I. am.wrecked.

I've found my people I was sat thinking does he ever stop! My youngest is the same although to make it worse is going through a willfully naughty stage as soon as you say don't do x he'll do it!

Luckily he does sit down to watch TV but will want me to sit down with him so he can sit endlessly wiggle & squirm on my lap.

Yes to finding our people. I was at the park yesterday with a friend who’s daughter sat in a swing for an hour, whilst my two ran in opposite directions the whole time, climbing up everything, one ran out the gate onto the road while I was trying to get the other one down from a climbing frame...

Just wanted to reassure you all that this may come to an end. DS was exactly the same, just constantly moving from 5am until bedtime. He’s 11 now and would happily lounge on the sofa all day (if I let him!). He still wakes up at the crack of dawn though.

Phew! Thanks birdie!

Did he calm down at 11? Or before? 7 more years feels like a long time 😂

Yes, 7yo DS is like this. He cannot sit still for one second. Even when we're watching a film he's skipping around the room, when we are eating meals he's kicking his legs. Drives me nuts!

It’s been gradual to start with-he started being able to sit and watch a whole film which was heaven and a couple of years ago we started leaving a drink and snack by his bed for when he woke up (wrapped croissant and an Apple) plus his tablet so he wouldn’t wake us up until 6/7ish.

It’s since he’s been in year 6 that I’ve noticed a really big change, he’s active in the sense that he likes going out and about but at home he’s happy just chilling. Good luck!

DC1 was v active: grew out of it age 11 ish!

Mine is 13 and has always been like this. As soon as he could crawl he was off like a whippet, and he hasn't stopped talking since he was nine months old. He's taller than me now, all arms and legs, and when he's around us he's just constantly bouncing round, climbing on the furniture, draping himself over me, sliding down the stairs, talking non-stop, running around the house and garden with the dog...until we suggest actually doing something, and then he suddenly becomes Kevin the Teenager and slouches off to his room.

DS is 22 months and is quite good at entertaining himself, but he is always doing something. He screams if I close the living room door because he spends most of the time wreaking havoc in the hallway. We had a playdate in a friend's garden a couple of weeks ago and it was like slapstick comedy, her following me around with a chair constantly, trying to persuade me to sit down. I only twigged later on that the reason I was happier standing up was because I was constantly stopping DS from having some kind of fatal accident 🤦🏼‍♀️

And YY to the poster who doesn't understand how they're still fat - the park is half an hour away on foot and we're there daily, how am I not a size 8 yet???

I think mine has a secret stash of speed somewhere, hes five and unless hes asleep he never stops moving.

Mines at school today, we have had a server failure at work so I haven’t been able to WFH today. I thought no son, no work I’ll get loads done. Obviously I’ve donr absolutely nothing productive and its been amazing!

YES!! Mine are 3 and 5 years old and they get up without fail at 5am every single day and they literally do not stop until bedtime.

It’s bloody hard work! I absolutely envy my friends and family who have child who just seem so calm when mine are charging about like headless chickens.

We can go for ridiculously long walks, trips to the park where they will climb and run about for hours but they just do not run out of energy..

I also have one like that. As well always moving, DOES NOT STOP TALKING. It's extraordinary

Blame screens for what?

I think the fact that DS has ADHD has rather more to do with genetics and rather less to do with screens (I used to wish I could get him to watch Cbeebies when he was a toddler, especially the week he wasn't supposed to run around because he had a chest infection!)

Anyone else ready for them to go back to school ?

Yes , my ds is 6 , on the rare occasion he isn't moving, hes talking ..it got to the point last night where I asked him to go and do some art in his room , just to give me a breather. I'm on furlough, so luckily I can do lots of activities with him , and we have lots planned.
He went back to school as soon as they were open !! I feel guilty because its just me and him at home , but he's so full on. Hes not naughty, just draining.
I could have both of my nieces here and I wouldn't know I had them, that's the truth !
I totally get it!!
He goes to his dad's most weekends and i just sit here decompressing, mentally shattered.

I wouldn’t say mine are supremely active but they fight constantly!!! 😬 This lockdown has just been completely horrendous for me being with them 24/7 for months and months and months.

I bloody wish my 18 month old could be distracted by 'screens'. It might prevent her from climbing up the bookcase, climbing over the back of the sofa, trying to get out the window, crawling through the catflap, busting open the toilet door trying to eat cat biscuits and other low-level dangerous activities day after day.

Its like whack a mole, every time I lock or block something to prevent her from killing herself with it she finds something else.

FML