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Know it all child!

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Pluntolo · 27/08/2024 08:22

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?!

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RafaFan · 27/08/2024 16:46

Pluntolo · 27/08/2024 08:46

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!!

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Ha ha, my two are the same. I got a speeding ticket last year, and now I have two back seat drivers...

TruthorDie · 27/08/2024 16:49

GingerPirate · 27/08/2024 09:12

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

I dislike both massively. Because they never do! I vote squash it out of a child do they don’t turn into one of those people

Flipsock · 27/08/2024 18:03

Harrriet · 27/08/2024 09:49

Ds1 aspergers & ADHD know it all at 8-10 years
Ds3 Is know it all at 8-10
Dd1 know it all from birth
Ds4 know it all from 8
Ds5 know it all pending
Ds6 fi ne at the moment
Husband Aspergers never ending!
Me 🤔

How many children have you got?!😬

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Harrriet · 27/08/2024 18:14

Flipsock · 27/08/2024 18:03

How many children have you got?!😬

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6😃 Ds3 & Dd1 are twins. reasonable age gaps between them all though.

Barbie222 · 27/08/2024 18:21

LBFseBrom · 27/08/2024 08:32

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

No, don't do this. He doesn't know this one important thing yet: he's being rude. Tell him, that's rude. You are sounding bossy and like you know the best about everything. That thought needs to stay in your head or people will get really annoyed with you and not want to include you in their games, etc. however you think it needs to be phrased so you think he understands. If you don't correct him, he will start being excluded by his peers and that's a harsher way to learn the lesson.

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Pluntolo · 27/08/2024 19:58

Barbie222 · 27/08/2024 18:21

No, don't do this. He doesn't know this one important thing yet: he's being rude. Tell him, that's rude. You are sounding bossy and like you know the best about everything. That thought needs to stay in your head or people will get really annoyed with you and not want to include you in their games, etc. however you think it needs to be phrased so you think he understands. If you don't correct him, he will start being excluded by his peers and that's a harsher way to learn the lesson.

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He does know, he gets told. As I said, with peers he won't say boo to a goose.

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Bollindger · 28/08/2024 21:36

Anyone remember this poster.

Know it all child!
Alalalalalongalalalalalonglonglilong · 28/08/2024 22:22

My twins at 9:
girl - blah blah the green towel.
Boy- actually it's teal
Girl - aagh would you stop being so pedantric
Boy - the word you mean is pedantic
Etc

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