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Has anyone else's 5 year old just completely lost the plot?

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TotesABoats · 23/12/2023 18:03

Just that really. She's SO excited for
Christmas. Manic hyper nightmare. The 9 year old has just told her she's the most annoying person in his life, and while I have obviously mediated and resolved I am kind of with him...

Would it be so terrible to pop to Gatwick and get the next plane to anywhere? Would it really? I'd come back: just, like, on Boxing Day when she's calmed down...

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jadey1991 · 23/12/2023 18:04

Don't my 9 year old daughter is like this and it's driving me mad

Flippingflamingo · 23/12/2023 18:05

My 7 year old is completely bonkers today. Really hyper, can’t sit still and has making a ridiculous amount of noise since he woke up.!

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TotesABoats · 23/12/2023 18:07

Oh god yes the noise. The NOISE. Why is everything suddenly even louder than it normally is?!

She literally just looked in the room (I'm watching tv with the smallest one) and screamed "I'M HUNGRY AND EXCITED!" at the volume of what I imagine would have been Concorde taking off

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jadey1991 · 23/12/2023 18:54

Oh tell me about it. The excitement coming from my daughter is unreal...

I've never known a child to be so excited lol.. everything is Christmas this and Christmas that

katmarie · 23/12/2023 18:56

My 4yo has lost all ability to sit still and has spent much of today jumping off things and being extra loud. My almost 6yo has become obsessed with the Christmas tree, and doesn't seem to be able to listen to anything I say.

It's been a lot. It will likely be a lot tomorrow too. I'm going to take them out and run them around the park for a couple of hours tomorrow to try and wear them out. Optimistic I know.

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TotesABoats · 23/12/2023 19:55

DH made a mildly funny joke at bedtime. DD: hysterical laughter and a fake falling out of bed, then real tears, due to actually hurting herself in the fake fall. DH is now not allowed to make jokes until at least the 28th.

Calling Santa was threatened and peace has fallen. For now. I fear this is the kind of short term win that will only feed the build up frenzy

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TotesABoats · 23/12/2023 19:58

katmarie · 23/12/2023 18:56

My 4yo has lost all ability to sit still and has spent much of today jumping off things and being extra loud. My almost 6yo has become obsessed with the Christmas tree, and doesn't seem to be able to listen to anything I say.

It's been a lot. It will likely be a lot tomorrow too. I'm going to take them out and run them around the park for a couple of hours tomorrow to try and wear them out. Optimistic I know.

Tbf my mistake today was staying in (so much Christmas craft, wtf was I thinking). Running off the energy is a much better plan for tomorrow 🤞🤞🤞

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Flev · 23/12/2023 19:58

This maybe gives me some hope - my 5 yr old is so, so argumentative at present it is absolutely ridiculous to the point that I just want to give up trying to do anything nice for her. Maybe it's over excitement and she will be more reasonable again by boxing day, I really hope so because right now i don't like her very much.

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 23/12/2023 20:05

I have almost 9yo and 5yo twins. O M G ...

Almost 9yo so excited she actually had an accident today.

BoyTwin - fairly sure he is on the spectrum - going loudly and repeatedly through his particular current obsession including singing Christmas carols about it.

GirlTwin - I have another whole thread about her atm! More sinister than excited tbh. Wrote DH a Christmas card that read "Dear.Daddy, you know who this is. I will see you on Christmas morning." Then stuck googly eyes on his present "so it can look at him whether he likes it or not"

MacLaine · 23/12/2023 20:12

I’m sorry but that is hilarious. 👀

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TotesABoats · 23/12/2023 20:14

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 23/12/2023 20:05

I have almost 9yo and 5yo twins. O M G ...

Almost 9yo so excited she actually had an accident today.

BoyTwin - fairly sure he is on the spectrum - going loudly and repeatedly through his particular current obsession including singing Christmas carols about it.

GirlTwin - I have another whole thread about her atm! More sinister than excited tbh. Wrote DH a Christmas card that read "Dear.Daddy, you know who this is. I will see you on Christmas morning." Then stuck googly eyes on his present "so it can look at him whether he likes it or not"

Hahaha that is amazing!

Not quite as sinister but DD turned to her older brother at bedtime and asked him if he'd prefer to be "died forever or live but be bound to serve me". Maybe there's a full moon turning 5 year old girls into characters from psychological thrillers?

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TotesABoats · 23/12/2023 20:19

Flev · 23/12/2023 19:58

This maybe gives me some hope - my 5 yr old is so, so argumentative at present it is absolutely ridiculous to the point that I just want to give up trying to do anything nice for her. Maybe it's over excitement and she will be more reasonable again by boxing day, I really hope so because right now i don't like her very much.

Honestly, I started the thread because I genuinely am struggling to enjoy her. Usually we walk a nice line of her being high-spirited and pushing boundaries just far enough, but also being hilarious and lovely. Not this week ☹️ I haven't worn such a thousand yard stare since the newborn days...

I do think it's down to Christmas. It's a kind of manic excitement of not being able to wait (most of the time she can barely wait for dinner, so weeks of lead up to a day of presents and fun is hard). Hopefully.

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Crooklodge · 23/12/2023 20:21

Our friends 8yo came up to play with our 9yo dts today, absolutely fucking mental, the lot of them. His dad called me to say he was just going to the dump "noooo, you need to take this lot too, they're doing my tits in".

Mind you, our 13yo is excited beyond belief too, will she ever grow up?

HappyDaze23 · 23/12/2023 20:25

My five year old has been awful all day and my two year old has been exhausting! I’m not well and knackered but ploughing on with the Christmas activities. We also spent too much time indoors today so they were tired and hyper and climbing the walls. Finishing school only yesterday meant no time to relax and unwind properly before Christmas.

MIL brought presents over for the kids but told them they weren’t to be opened until Christmas Day which caused a fair few years as I’d not really prepared them for that.

Applerumleandcustard · 23/12/2023 20:32

I remember those days so well , almost fondly from the other side
Us , waking on Christmas morning and waiting ( waiting ? Who’d have thought ?) for the thundering footsteps down the landing ….
and remembering , no , they’re teenagers

LostCats · 23/12/2023 20:33

Ah! I’m so glad it’s not just ours. DD is having a breakdown about having to wait ANOTHER WHOLE DAY!! But angry with it. Which I was nervous about. Because I suddenly had a vision of when all the presents are opened and then the tears that Christmas Day is coming to an end and another year to wait. Happens every year…

MissMarianHalcombe · 23/12/2023 20:43

I had a Facebook memory pop up today from 14 years ago asking if was too early to crack open the gin as I’d spent the whole day separating my two DS’s. An infamous line, much repeated over the years, of “Mummmm, tell him, he’s looking at me in a funny way” was born. They’re now 24 & 21 and somehow miraculously turned out fairly well adjusted :)

PMTsickandtiredofyourshit · 23/12/2023 20:44

You’re so not alone! My DD (7) has been very excitable mixed with huffy. When picking our cat up from the cattery today she was enraged that I wouldn’t let her have the cat basket on her lap (last time she let it out while I was driving!)
We just played Taco Cat and she kept on claiming that it was a draw when it wasn’t. I’m torn between letting it be and worrying that if I let her get away with cheating that people won’t want to play with her so I made DH be the referee.
Great start!
I think tomorrow I’m going to take her for a big walk in the woods to get some of this excess excitable energy out!

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TotesABoats · 23/12/2023 21:13

PMTsickandtiredofyourshit · 23/12/2023 20:44

You’re so not alone! My DD (7) has been very excitable mixed with huffy. When picking our cat up from the cattery today she was enraged that I wouldn’t let her have the cat basket on her lap (last time she let it out while I was driving!)
We just played Taco Cat and she kept on claiming that it was a draw when it wasn’t. I’m torn between letting it be and worrying that if I let her get away with cheating that people won’t want to play with her so I made DH be the referee.
Great start!
I think tomorrow I’m going to take her for a big walk in the woods to get some of this excess excitable energy out!

Ha, you've just reminded me (genuinely forgot because it got eclipsed by the Rest Of The Fucking Day) about the meltdown when she lost at the reindeer hoop toss game she was playing this morning. I didn't realise anyone could claim a win in a game when the evidence is literally when a hoop is either on an inflatable antler, or off an inflatable antler. AND YET.

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KitchenMandarin · 23/12/2023 21:16

You're not alone!
DH & I left DD5 with my in-laws to grab the last few remaining bits we needed. We'd only been gone a couple of hours but MIL was ready to throw DD at us because she was so wired!
I think an early finish at school coupled with the loss of routine PLUS the Christmas frenzy has definitely taken its toll (on all of us 😅).

Is it January yet? 🫠

bakewellbride · 23/12/2023 21:29

Our eldest is 5. He usually behaves beautifully but we had a shite bedtime. So out of character. We asked him to brush his teeth and he yelled no go away you stupid idiots and ran off. Now the elves aren't bringing him a gift tomorrow as they usually do on Xmas eve. Makes me so sad!

voxnihili · 23/12/2023 21:30

My 5 year old is also unusually wild. I’m packing her off with her dad tomorrow to go visit the in laws so I can get the cleaning done. The house is pretty clean so a quick whizz round and I can drink some wine in anticipation of her arrival back home and the hideousness that the afternoon will bring.

Mummyofthewildones · 23/12/2023 21:36

The lethal combination of exhaustion from first term in reception and excitement of first year of truly knowing and fully believing what's going on is making my 4yo DD a ticking time bomb! She is the epitome of the shaken fizzy bottle at the best of times so this is another level of volume and excitement. I'm taking them outside all day tomorrow to wear them out! At least the screaming doesn't hurt my ears so much if we are outdoors 😅

IdaPolly · 23/12/2023 21:44

TotesABoats · 23/12/2023 20:14

Hahaha that is amazing!

Not quite as sinister but DD turned to her older brother at bedtime and asked him if he'd prefer to be "died forever or live but be bound to serve me". Maybe there's a full moon turning 5 year old girls into characters from psychological thrillers?

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Sorry, that made me laugh. She sounds intelligent with the "bound to serve me" line. I like the sound of her.
It would actually be very festive of you to fly from Gatwick and leave her Home Alone like Kevin McAlistair

KindleGirlie · 23/12/2023 21:48

Can I join you going to Gatwick please? It’s relentless. Why does everything have to be so damn loud

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