My dd sits 'wrong' and its driving me bananas

[Lollyneenah]

I love her of course, but fuck me she will not sit like a reasonable human anymore.
AFAIK she sits like a human in school, restaurants, the cinema, her friends homes, family homes but on MY sofas it's a never ending wriggle sprawling moving mass. It's like she has been replaced with an alien who has had no prior experience of sitting on a fecking armchair.

I dont tell her off for it, because its not spoiling the chairs or anything but it is driving me a tiny bit more nuts everyday.

Does this end? Is it just my child?

She definitely was using chair correctly up until the age of 7 and a half

I think you need to unclench

Poor child!

She's getting comfy, on a comfy chair, and it's annoying you? Are you by any chance Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, or some other member of the utterly joyless aristocracy, who believes that women and girls should hold perfect posture at all times?

How can you sit wrong?

I never sit on a sofa either. Always sprawl!

Is she not doing something called relaxing ...?

Are you my mother?? Also complaining about my inability to sit without my feet up and often swaddled in a snuggly blanket.

Your DD sounds like me. I can't sit still for long and sit in all sorts of positions to get comfy

@Lollyneenah I will sympathise. And that bit about an alien who has had no prior experience of sitting on an armchair made me chuckle.

DD2 is like this, when she was little DH and I used to take it in turns to decide who got to sit next to her at the cinema. When sprawling on a piece of furniture she also has prehensile feet which will casually twist cushions, burrow under things, tickle the dog, all without the top half of her noticing!

It's a thing. Physios know about it. When she sits properly on a kitchen chair, does she wrap her feet and legs around the legs?

Try her with a fiddle gadget- a twisty man or a cube or beads. She may settle a bit then. Don't tell her she does it though, it doesn't help to feel self conscious.

Christ I promise I'm not beating her or anything 😂I dont mention it at all, just leave her to sprawl wriggle her way around the living room while I silently twitch at the abomination of wiggly waggly sitting in my peripheral vision.
No children have been berated or harmed whatsoever I promise.

I imagine it's a similar level of twitch as when your nearest colleague slurps their coffee at every sip

My DS does this. It’s a nightmare watching a movie with him at times. Good tip to give them something to fidget with. DS has his bunny which he likes to brush against his face. Don’t even think he realises that he does it.

Has she reached the stage of dangling upside down off the sofa in order to read a book placed on the floor?
Chill, she's comfortable in her home, knows how to behave in public, and loves and trusts you enough to be herself in her own living room. It's a compliment!

Don’t most kids fidget almost non stop?
At some point they typically turn into the static lump under the duvet that is impossible to shift except by drastic action, i.e. ripping the duvet off plus a wet sponge.

I clearly remember my dad shouting at me to stop fiddling with my feet (ie using them to pick up blanket, push them under cushions, stroke the cat). And my ds is just as bad. Both of us also fiddle with our fingers, and holding it in all the time means that relaxing lets it all come out.

I'm a massive fidget too, and yes, I really irritate my family at times. Ironically, having it pointed out and being asked to sit still makes it so much harder for me to do. I'm never still, never. There's always a foot wiggling, arms moving. I can't stop it, I just move constantly, no matter how tired. I've worn the varnish off our wooden floor under my place at the kitchen table. She may always be a fidget, some of us just are.

Good lord, MN and its sense of humour failures...

Someone will be along in a minute to internet-diagnose some form of SEN or tell you to go NC.

I thought it was funny, OP, for whatever it's worth at this stage.

And I sympathise on the wriggly creature thing; DSS is 14 and it's still going, except all his limbs are really LONG now so things go flying all the time (cups, cushions, his phone...)

Yes to upside down book on floor with one foot stroking the cats tummy and the other drawing toe circles in the air.

I definitely think it's a chilling out thing, rather than a problem.
I will also say we have been in isolation alone together for 4 weeks so perhaps that has somewhat added to The Twitch

My ds is exactly like your dd op. I totally understand!

Laughing very much at the idea of going NC
Shes just asked if I want to pretend to be cats all day.

Twitch.

It's a thing. Physios know about it. When she sits properly on a kitchen chair, does she wrap her feet and legs around the legs?

My daughter does, as she's hypermobile and has low muscle tone. She's wrecked my sofa by sitting on the back and forcing her legs under the heavy back cushion. It was a revelation when the physio diagnosed her and said...does she do this, and that and this other thing?...It was like switching a lightbulb on and we were a bit astounded. It's all about stability. She's 15 now and she still does it. I've just bought her a weighted blanket and that was a revelation too.

Btw, I did read your post as humour, it reminded me of my gran saying to me, can you not sit like a laydeee

I apologised to my mum for being an annoying fidget arse growing up, after having my own fidget arse kids .

Dd(5) isn’t as much of a fidget, but similarly lacks the ability to watch the cartoon on the ipad without placing the ipad on the floor, pushing the back chair cushion down like a slide, sprawling upside down on it on her back with one foot in the air and the other tapping annoyingly on a neighbouring bookcase, so that she is watching both upside down and back to front. Gah!

On the plus side, i remember reading years ago that fidgeters stay naturally thin as they burn so many calories.

My hypermobile DS is the same. He looks like he's disassembled most of the time and if you sit next to him, you become fair game with toes burrowing under you, limbs wrapped round you, flopping across your space. He's much better with something to fiddle with but while his hands fiddle, the rest of his body still twists and contorts, it's just a little slower.

I might try a weighted blanket.