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To want to string my 16 month old DD up by her ears?

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AmazingBouncingFerret · 09/05/2011 10:30

She keeps pulling the throw off the Ikea bouncy chair.
I keep replacing it and putting the cushions back on neatly.
She then goes back over to it pulls it off climbs up, stands up and bounces with a big grin on her face.

Does anyone wanted buy a spirited toddler?

Grin
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valiumredhead · 09/05/2011 10:33

That's not spirited! Spirited is climbing over the baby gate into the kitchen, when the one time I left the fridge lock off, helping helping himself to a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE bottle of milk, getting the lid off and emptying it all over his bed/carpet and bedroom..............

I am SO glad he's strapping 9 year old now and those high jinks are behind us Grin

Sirzy · 09/05/2011 10:34

Sounds like a normal toddler thing to do, and she probably thinks it's a great game!

Bearcrumble · 09/05/2011 10:36

My 15-monthj-old DS is very single minded about wanting to pull the sky box and DVD players off their shelves.

We put a perspex panel in front of them - he worked out how to get it off.

He broke it the other day.

We need to get it together to build high shelving for them and the TV I guess...

I try not to keep saying 'no' but just gently removing him and distracting him - it's pretty relentless when he's in the living room though.

At least the weather is nice and we can go out a lot to indulge his other obsession - sitting on the ground in the park and waving twigs around.

mrsravelstein · 09/05/2011 10:36

perhaps she would like to come and play with my 16 month old dd, who has made an assault course out of the dining room chairs and is using them to climb up onto the bookshelves, chuck out all the books, then launch herself off the top onto the fairly hard wooden floor?

Mobly · 09/05/2011 10:38

Give up and put the nice throw/cushions away.

I have 2 spirited Grin toddlers and I am worn down.

mrsravelstein · 09/05/2011 10:39

another recent favourite trick - climbing onto the table, taking one small bite out of every apple in the fruit bowl and then lobbing them, with astonishing speed and accuracy, right at my head as i sat on the floor at the other end of the room playing with (lovely, quiet, sensible) ds2.

MrsMoppet · 09/05/2011 10:39

YANBU to want to do it, but obv you would BvvvvvU to actually do it Grin

And if that is the only spirited thing she does, count yourself lucky!

Toddlers eh. Every time I think about discussing begging having another baby with DH, I remember the toddler years, and pour myself a large drink! We couldn't put a cup of coffee down on a windowsill or table for about 2 years with DC1 - everything within reach (and boy did he have a loooooong reach) was swiped onto the floor .... skirting boards pulled off the walls ... TV/DVD cables pulled out .....

He's doesn't do it any more, thank goodness, but he is nearly 7 Grin

Flisspaps · 09/05/2011 10:44

I will gladly swap for a tantrumming 14 month old who despite being exhausted Will Not Sleep and is currently shouting for her Daddy (who can probably hear her from work the way she's carrying on) Hmm

HMTheQueen · 09/05/2011 10:58

Bearcrumble We had the same problem with DS. We bought a cabinet from Ikea (can't remember the name - sorry!) that has glass panels as the front - but with Lockable doors! SO you can still use the remote to change channels/watch DVD, but no little fingers getting to the buttons.

It has revolutionised my TV time Grin

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AmazingBouncingFerret · 09/05/2011 11:04

Loving the toddler tales!
She's upstairs "helping" my mum clean her brothers room atm keep hearing squeals of anger and my mum saying "no E the dog doesnt want to wear J's tshirt" Then the click clack of the dog legging it down the stairs to escape!

Cant do away with the throw the chair is faaar to dirty for that! Blush

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MrsMoppet · 09/05/2011 11:10

Who's squealing? - your DD, your mum or the dog?!

I'm LOVING mrsravelstein's apple experience Grin

AgentZigzag · 09/05/2011 11:12

What a horrible title.

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AmazingBouncingFerret · 09/05/2011 11:13

Oh agent give over it's just one of those old style phrases like having someone guts for garters. Sometimes there's just too much offense taken around here!

MrsMoppet it was DD's indignant squealing.

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Punkatheart · 09/05/2011 11:14

I will look after them all if you will take on a sulky, loud, pathologically untidy 14 year old. Her baby days look like heaven.

yoshiLunk · 09/05/2011 11:25

I was just about to offer a similar deal to punkatheart,

I'll have your toddler and give you an arrogant a charming and very clean and tidy 16 year old stepson..

any takers?

I always say 'guts for garters', the DCs always ask me what it means, and I tell 'em! is that true? they ask me, I tell them you don't want to find out, do you?

Grin
Punkatheart · 09/05/2011 11:28

Ha - I was threatened with that as a teenager. Also 'Go and play on the motorway.'

We need a teenage whisperer in the style of the horse one. Or a herding dog to round them all up and make them say more than: 'Whatever.'

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AmazingBouncingFerret · 09/05/2011 11:29

Yeah I cant wait to have the sulky teenage years and be able to reminisce about the toddler years! The one i'm really looking forward to is the children moving out years! Wink Or the telling them how to bring up my grandchildren years. They should be fun!

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Buda · 09/05/2011 11:30

Very unreasonable. Because then when she is a teen and in an even more spirited phase she will blame you for her long, sticky-out ears and you will have to pay to have them pinned back.

Also loving the apple story!

Reminds me of yesterday when I got hit in the bum by a tennis ball while clearing out our basement. DH was in a 'spirited' mood too. Hmm

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AmazingBouncingFerret · 09/05/2011 11:30

Or a Grunt to English translation dictionary Punkatheart!

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KvetaBarry · 09/05/2011 11:32

does she sleep at night? if so, I'd happily swap you her for my 19 month old 'spirited' little sod DS :o

he found a brick in the garden of our new house, and walked about hurling it at the neighbours fence until we noticed (he managed 1 hit I think!). And yesterday took the salt and pepper mills upstairs and chucked them down from the top, after REPEATEDLY being told not to touch them. (house is in total disarray at the moment, so putting it out of his reach is impossible - there isn't anywhere to put it!)

and he was up every 45 minutes last night, despite extensive drugging so although we're cutting him some slack due to moving house, DH and I are both very very knackered and pissy this morning!

DiscoDaisy · 09/05/2011 11:36

I always tell my children that I'll hang them from the rafters by their feet or put them out with the rubbish. ( The youngest is 6 so knows I wouldn't really do this before someone worries that my DC will be scarred for life).

KaraStarbuckThrace · 09/05/2011 11:43

I threaten to sell my 3yo on ebay...

mrsravelstein · 09/05/2011 11:57

i've been trying to swap my dc for opposite neighbour's labradoodle, it's v lovely, but so far no success Sad dd looks angelic so i really thought we were in with a chance

Bogeyface · 09/05/2011 12:31

I once said in exasperation "What am I going to do with YOU LOT?!" and DD (aged about 8 at the time) said "You could have us all adopted" I have no idea where she got that from but I was tempted :o:o

kenobi · 09/05/2011 12:42

My 17mo divine destructor took a full bottle of Night Nurse while I was getting dressed yesterday am and threw it across the spare bedroom at my parents', where it exploded green goo and tiny, vicious shards of glass all over my mum's new white berber wool carpet. I am still picking splinters of glass out of my fingers. While DM and I were clearing up, she found a full tub of ear buds and upended them onto the mess, which made the cleaning up job that much more fun.

Yep, it's now fully dawned up us she has grown taller again and every needs to be moved to the NEXT shelf up again...

I have offered to trade her in for a budgie and some aquarium fish but the shop assistant in The Fish Bowl said there was no demand for toddlers.