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Original poster

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?

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Punkatheart · 09/05/2011 12:50

My mother (in a now very politically incorrect way) used to threaten to give me to gypsies. She didn't know that I had actually met a group of travellers down a river path and I was quite good friends with a couple of them. So I used to chuckle to myself about that one....

Buda · 09/05/2011 13:47

Actually just remembered that my mother used to threaten to "cut your bum off and have it in a rasher sandwich"!

valiumredhead · 09/05/2011 13:53

My Nan used to threaten to 'skin us alive!'

onehellofaride · 09/05/2011 14:01

my mother used to tell me that if I was naughty she would put me out for barnados and that that was where all the naughty children went

Buda · 09/05/2011 15:51

It's amazing we all ended up as normal as we are really!

justpaddling · 09/05/2011 15:58

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edwinbear · 09/05/2011 16:08

I will swap for a 21 month who has taken to drawing on the walls, with bunches of keys now he has had his crayons confiscated. I was especially pleased with his latest Picasso which appeared 15 mins before we had people due to look at our flat which is on the market. His other favourite activities include emptying the kitchen dustbin, switching on the oven, throwing toys at the glass coffee table to see how hard they bounce, climbing up the bookcase shelves to pull the books off and climbing onto the dining room table and standing there with his 'you're not the boss of me' look on his face. How right he is.

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AmazingBouncingFerret · 09/05/2011 16:33

peabodyblue, my DS when about 17/18 months old got hold of a large tub of sudocrem and liberally slathered the dog in it. You would think I learnt my lesson with that one but 1 week later he got hold of it again and covered some of his trucks with it. He still has one of the trucks with hardened sudocrem stuck to the wheels!

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heather1980 · 09/05/2011 17:57

amazing, my dd opened a tub of black shoe polish and liberally smeared it all over my kitchen and herself when she was about 18 months, i'd only nipped upstairs for a wee!

ohboob · 09/05/2011 18:06

Person with no toddler points at you all and LAUGHS.
Ha ha ha.
Suckers!!
Goes back to reading the newspaper with my nice music on in the background and enjoys the peace and quiet.

(Just joking! Much sympathy really. It may well be me one day)

RunAwayWife · 09/05/2011 18:10

I will give you 50p and some clothes pegs for her

mrsravelstein · 09/05/2011 18:26

runaway are you by any chance also in the market for a psychotic but very pretty cat? i would be prepared to do a deal on her AND my toddler... i wouldn't even want the clothes pegs in return...

Tanith · 09/05/2011 19:27

Huh! Call that spirited??

My toddler climbed the bookcase to the 5th shelf, flung the books on the floor then beamed "Lello Mummy!!" when I came in to investigate the thudding noises!

You don't have a spirited toddler until you've choked off a scream of horror so as not to startle him/her.

Punkatheart · 09/05/2011 19:31

My little girl once came in from a friend's garden and said friend and I were chatting. DD was a bit damp because she had been in a paddling pool. But not damp enough to need to go into the bathroom. Friend was in the kitchen and DD and I were in her front room.

'Do you like my new carpet?' she called. 'Very expensive but I have waited a long time for it...'

Took down my (potty trained I thought) DD's pants and out fell a substantial amount of poo.

I would have swapped her that day.

Clothes pegs sound great currency...

RunAwayWife · 09/05/2011 20:12

mrsravelstein very tempting I have two mad cats already although DH1 has custody of them as New DP is allergic to cats.

If we are doing swaps I have DS1 who is almost 15 is a soap dodger (and has tourettes) he is amazingly funny and still tells me he loves me every day and DS2 who is almost 11 and the most loving little boy who loves snuggles but has my temper

NewShooz · 09/05/2011 20:15

We need a 'like' button for this thread!! :-D

BarbieGrows · 09/05/2011 20:19

punkatheart, I actually tried dogwhisperer techniques on my dd who due to lack of boundaries was trying to become pack leader. It worked (for a while). It's all in the body language. But you have to try to remember NOT to push them to the floor by the scruff of the neck.

Also loving the apple story mrsravelstein

Butterpiecrimearea · 09/05/2011 20:24

18 month old who poured a carton of gravy granules all over the kitchen floor, threw her sippy cup down so hard it smashed, threw her soup all over her big sister, then hit me in the face, knocking my glasses to the floor. Where they got covered in soup. and gravy. 25p.

RunAwayWife · 09/05/2011 20:26

While I think of it I have a DH1 going begging.

Works hard
Great dad
non smoker
non drinker
very funny
Kind
Never met anyone that did not like him

However could make a mess in an empty room

What am I offered

activate · 09/05/2011 20:26

oh yes because toddlers love throws and neat cushions

DontCallMePeanut · 09/05/2011 20:48

My ex's DS used to enjoy taking the sky card home with him after he stayed with us... One time, he got all the way home before his mother realised...

And DS used to love pulling laundry off the chair. And painting with toothpaste when he got near the stuff...

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