Know it all child!

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Trying to be patient with my 8 year old DS as I've just had a baby (same Dad - massive gap due to multiple miscarriages) so I know he will be feeling weird but I'm running on minimal sleep so as a result my tolerance levels are on the floor - he is SUCH a know it all it drives me nuts. He has to correct me about absolutely everything. If I say the time is 2.30 he will say no it isn't, it's 2.28. If I'm driving and we are in traffic he will say why are we going so slowly, you should have gone x way instead. If I close my eyes while feeding the baby he will say you're not meant to go to sleep (I'm obviously not asleep). If I say something to him and he asks me to repeat it and I can't remember EXACTLY what I said word for word he has to correct me.

It's driving me demented!! Is it an age thing?!

Yes
I had this in duplicate as I have twins
I called it out every time. So say ok why didn't you mention it before so we could avoid the traffic or if you know the time speak up. This too will pass!

Oh good god you must have the patience of a Saint!!

Oh god yes. My 8yo is the same. The time thing in particular winds me up massively. I don't care if the clock says 4.31, it is essentially half past bloody four!!!! Also just constantly checking about whether I'm following the rules 😭

I also particularly enjoy when I fail to get something exactly right with the necessary precision and he slaps his hand against his forehead like I'm a terribly slow student. God, the number of conversations about pedantry, politeness, using your judgement, when we need exactness and when roughness is better...

I think it passes. It had bloody better!

Congrats on the new baby!

This is actually very rude and I would tell him that he needs to speak to adults with respect and not tell them they are wrong all the time.

What a nightmare to have to teach child like this.

It's quite normal, let it wash over you.

Don't worry, he doesn't say boo to a goose at school.

Are you me?!

I couldn't even get worked up about these things

Maybe you have to be there

It's literally constant, if you could let it wash over you you're a better person than I am.

Plus my fuse is very short as I'm sleep deprived.

Yep, my 8 nearly 9 yo is exactly the same, it drives me mad!

We have ‘well, actually..’ so many times, we’ve turned it into a joke. That and the constant on rule following -I hope it tails off this year…

They grow out of it in this way, thankfully, then it starts in a different form. Sign in local pub “Employ a teenager while they know everything “
Yesterday there were plenty of head slapping moments with 30 something son and his 70 something dad erecting a shed. Although the head slapping and sighing went both ways! 😏
If you can let it roll over you, correct the really rude stuff, and be thankful school starts next week.

My sons catchphrase is, "I know".
(No, you don't, mate🙄).

Yes my DS is an absolute stickler for any and all rules. Yesterday we passed a cyclist and on the way up it was "mummy please remember you need to give him 1.5 metres of space"

Yes thank you son, not like I've been driving for 17 years or anything!!

At least when he's a teenager and knows everything he probably won't want to be anywhere near me, rather than following me around all day specifically to point out I am wrong 😅

oh yes, being reminded by the backseat driver why I shouldn’t go through an orange light! It’s heartening to know Im not the only one dealing with this 😂

Playing with littlest ds...
Me oh no I've crashed the blue car
Littlest ds. Giggles
8 year old ds..actually it's turquoise

This is 100% something my DS would come out with.

His world is upside down, as is yours. I think this is a thing many children do as a means of reassuring themselves that what they think is right and as a way of marking their presence and involving themselves. It's truly annoying. I remember another mum saying to me "all you need is a little patience" and me replying that I just didn't have any!! You might be able to offset it a bit by asking him can he find out the time and tell you, what way does he think you should go... It could be he is a little anxious and wanting order and stability. He is probably worried about you but not actually having the emotional maturity to express that. I know it's so very hard but if you can, make time for you, make time for you and him. Go in at night and watch him sleeping - there is nothing like this for remembering how lovely they really are no matter how difficult the day.

My nearly 16 year old is like this…has been since little. Drives us mad. Started off soon as she could talk telling us ‘2 hands ‘ for when we were driving. Couldn’t even scratch your head without being told it! She does have Asperger’s but my gosh it’s painful I get corrected on everything..I also apparently don’t walk right or fast enough..

My six year old is exactly like this and I find it SO rude it drives me absolutely bonkers. It's relentless. Please don't tell me he'll still be doing this in two years

This is a developmental stage, I remember recently reading a thread about this age & there was a link included that was very helpful - I think if you search “little lawyer” you might find it

my 8 year old used to watch the satnav & would let me know if I’d gone over 30 mph 😄 they do grow out if it thankfully

Oh yes we get that - mummy you're doing 31 you need to slow down OR mummy you're doing 28 you need to speed up.

Idk what is worse, a know it all adult or a child!
😁

I can tell a know it all adult to fuck off!!

I can laugh about it now but found it very hard not to kind of bristle at the time & not be reactive. They seem to really need to be Right! The Rightest person ever!! I think I gave in in the end & just said like Gosh you’re quite right dear 😄 kind of grey rocking,
it didn’t last very long. It’s specific to the years 8/9. I’ll see if I can find that article I was talking about, it was by a child psychologist abc was very interesting, I wished I’d read it back then.