To not stop my 3yo being a dog?

[TheCunnyFunt]

DD is 3, one of her favourite games is being a 'DD Doggy' and she does the following commands - sit, lie down, roll over, stay and while she is being a DD Doggy she'll only do something you tell/ask her to do if you say Doggy after your request.

DP thinks we should stop her from being a dog as 'it's not right, is it?' and because of the request thing I mentioned up there ^^.

I think it's fine, she loves pretending to be a dog, she using her imagination well and that is healthy!

Who is being unreasonable?

"If she's actually refusing to do as she's told unless you/Dh command her as a dog, that's not OK IMO."

Why?

Love all these other stories :o Mr. Rabbit really cracked me up :o

Mine used to play dogs as well

Leads, bowls of water and food

My worst shocker though was walking into the lounge to them playing funerals
As humans, not dogs - that would just be weird

My ds was frequently a dog in the past. Since we got a dog, less so, but he's trained to recall to the dog whistle which is brilliant in the woods or hills. And both dog and child like chorizo as their recall treat

My 3yo DD spends time as a dog as well, most of it is spent with imaginary peeing and pooing all over the garden but there is quite a bit of training as well. She also spends time as knight killing dragons. Normal child behaviour.

Your DH is being unreasonable.

My 3 year old DS2 is often a dog too. We went out to lunch today and he communicated only in woofs. I did finally draw the line when he put his plate on the floor and attempted to eat it with his mouth only while on all fours.

But overall I find doggy commands work well. "Heel" is particularly useful in supermarkets, although I have been given some odd looks.

I remember doing this! And I was at least 5, as we moved when I was 5 into the new house and that's where I remember doing it. When the doorbell rang I told my mother to not forget I was the dog and she had to hold my collar and introduce me to the caller as such.

Bless her, I can remember her embarrassment, but she did it.

My DS4 now 11 was a goldfish for a week when he was 3. Made me join him - I even found myself making blub blub goldfish faces whilst looking out of the kitchen window doing the dishes. DS wasn't in the room at the time either!

I used to love pretending to be a dog. I used to pretend to be the dog from Johnny Briggs - was it Razzles?

My mum let me have a chicken bone from Sunday lunch to pretend it was a dog bone.
I think I would have been the same age.

When I worked in retail, a mum came into the shop with her dd (maybe about 5yrs old) who was dressed up and acted like a dog, including crawling on all fours. Mum was very blasé about it and dd was having a great time - clearly mum found it easier to just go with the flow.
No harm in your dd playing this game, she will grow out of it eventually :)

My son used to turn into a dog fairly frequently, he'd leave the room as a boy and come back as "doggy".

He doesn't do it any more and it's sad.

My DS used to regularly 'be' a sheep for days at a time. Or a toadstool, which was more limiting... He's grown out of it now my arse has he

Sometimes when I collect DS from preschool I get a puppy called Fisher-Tiger who goes to the same preschool as DS. DS is usually at Fisher-Tiger's house, playing with Magic Mummy Dog and eating bones.

There were a couple of months when he insisted on being called Fisher-Tiger. I kept on expecting to see a thread about my ridiculously-named son, after I'd spent several weeks yelling it in the park and supermarket.

Yes, that's exactly it DontEatThat. For example-
'DD, can you please do x?'
'I'm DD Doggy!'
'Sorry, DD Doggy, can you please do x?'
'Yep ok!'

Oh shite I remember being just like this. When I was in dog mode then woe betide you if you tried to treat me like I was a human! You completely ruined the immersion of the game! Make your request in 'dog speak' or GTFO.

Conversely 20 mins later when there was something 'human only' like chocolate around... well, my human impression was fantastic. I'd mastered all the pleases and thank yous for a bit of chocolate!

They only have a few short years that this is cute instead of "mentally ill". Enjoy it. Let them have fun. :)

I was bitten by a girl who was a dog.
She was 11 and I was 7.
She broke the skin and I had to get a tetanus injection.

My DB was a dog called Bill...would eat out of a bowl on the floor and was adamant that he WAS a dog and got really really upset if he was told he wasn't...baby of 5 so you can imagine how we wound him up!! I think my DM even took him to the Drs!...oh how we rib him now at 44 and 6ft 8"!

I was a dog for a while when I was about 7, there were several of us at school who were all convinced we were. I some people even stole dog biscuits from home and ate them at breaktime to 'prove' their dogginess.

DD1 has just turned 6 and has been a dog frequently in the last few weeks.

She has to be put 'on the lead' when walking somewhere, likes to fetch and so on.

It's a harmless phase.

Your DP is BU

I was a lion, Donald duck and then finally a pony...for about 5 years. I'm now in my 30s, job, married, house and baby on the way, so not done any harm. My mum caved in and got me riding lessons which stopped the pretend horses....unfortunately I just became fixed on the real ones....yeah still working on that one :)

My dd is a going through a cat phase and currently refers to me as 'mummy cat'. I do get a few odd looks when out :o

Its when they assign strict roles to everyone else in the family you have to worry...

My DD really confused her swimming teacher when she was about 3 yrs old. When teacher told DD to really kick her legs, DD replied that she didn't have any legs - she was a carrot. Teacher looked and moved on quickly to the other less weird children in the class.

I would much prefer a dog. Dd 2yo pretends to be a washing machine, which involves spinning round with her hands in the air until she falls over. Thanks DH for teaching her that