AIBU or is ma-ma?

[VioletRoar]

She's refusing to let me play "door handles". It's quite a simple game; I point at a door handle, and she holds me at just the right height for as long as I decide is appropriate. I need to be able to touch the door handle with both hands, for exploring. About 40minutes is usually enough time for a session. I then like to move onto another door handle.
I've tried communicating this to her using my extensive knowledge of baby sign language. (I squeal while pointing and gesturing vaguely, just as I was taught.....I think. I usually bugger off to play with the other babies while our mums awkwardly sing and sign while trying to avoid each other's eye contact).

Sorry for the essay, I am just wondering if my ma-ma is the only one like this. Is there anything I can do to improve her behaviour?

Thanks in advance

Am I the only one? Isn't this thread really creepy? Grown women and all that!

Catwaving, I think you are the only one.

...who feels the need to spoil the fun of a few babies looking to chew the cud on their parental woes! Don't we have it hard enough??

Hi guys,
Loved reading about those of you who try to do Ms and DS a favour by posting things. After all they'd sat me down in front of their old PostMan Pat videos Stuff back through the letter box doesn't really work as they go nowhere, but we've got a little grid thing outside the front and back door. I posted lots of keys, money and cards down and it was weeks before I got caught as keys on a big ring didn't fit through the slots. A few things were still there but a lovely yucky smelly black. The rain had done its work.
I've noticed that the grills just beside the pavement are nice and wide, I'm planning my next move, when I,m given the keys to jangle, I'll give a wiggle to get out of my buggy and try posting them down there. Let me know if any of you manage to get a whole set of keys down.

I'm six now. My Mummy says this is Very Big Girl age. I see that some of you are practising your babying techniques on your grandparents as well as Mummy and Daddy. If I can offer some advice? Get Grandma on side. It's much more fun!

When I was very small, and Mummy went for carefulhotdrinks, I used to get Grandma to move me into new places. The best time was when Mummy left me on the sofa and Grandma carefully put me on the floor. Mummy cried with excitement at our cleverly planned trick.

Now I am bigger, I have Grandma well trained, so when Mummy says "no," I know I can ask Grandma.

I Hate to say it but you are all under achievers..I am a mere 5 weeks old buy being mummas third child (she needs a hobby the jezabelle) I knew I had to stand out from the crowd. Being a girl seemed a good start with two brothers but I wanted to secure my place as 'prime concern'... so I was born 7 weeks early! Gave mother the fright of her life got a nice bit of medical attention and now im home I only have to whimper and she is there. You've all been too placid you amateurs

CinnaStarTribute, show-off. I'm still a foetus but I'm planning to punch my way out of this cramped and frankly rather dull accommodation anytime soon. 8 months of that irritating background ker-thump ker-thump ker-thump noise is long enough.
Can you recommend a nice prem baby unit? One near home so the trainees can spend every waking hour gazing at me in wondrous grateful amazement.

A tip for those miserable days when your gums are all sore and you can feel a new tooth pushing through....Grown ups' and big brothers' legs have just the right amount of "give" for a good satisfying chew, and they give a much more impressive squeak than Sophie Giraffe. Nearly as good as boob lady does when you try it on her nipples.

AllThe mine was in Portsmouth it was a Superhospital apparently, the boob one said a lot of things in there, made a lot of promises.. ive kept them all in mind, cant trust these tall people, distinctly shifty look about them!

If your ma-ma likes keys Violet you could try the 'hunt the keys' game. You hide them somewhere for her to find. It's even more fun if you forget where you have put them, and then you can play too.

The advanced version of this involved hiding the car keys when there is no spare set, and then listening in as Ma-ma has to call the school to explain why Older Brother is not in yet, even though it is 10.30 am.

I don't know why she never thought to look in the cupboard over the stairs inside Dadda's second best pair of smart shoes until she'd upended the whole house. She's cute, but not very clever.

I suggest .that you repeatedly bang an upstairs door against a radiator valve, thereby unwittingly loosening it....your Mama will later look up in startled alarm as water appears to be dripping from the ceiling...directly on top of that thing she is always staring at....think she calls it a laptop. With luck, it will wipe-out the built in speakers, rendering it completely useless for sound or film editing...(mama's job).
Super fun!!

Brilliant thread. I am lost in admiration at your collective resourcefulness. World domination next!

Oooh just wait until you can actually reach the door handles yourself! I'm almost five and have been able to reach for a while, if you have the door open and hold onto the door handle on each side you can pretend they are motorbike handles! Make sure you rattle them back and forth as noisily as possible and make plenty of 'vroom vroom' noises. Because you can reach yourself your mummy won't be able to move you away and the fun can last for hours, also, luckily for mummy, it doesn't matter where she is in the house, she'll be able to hear it too! Fun for you both!

I'm a bit older than you lot, so I feel that I am in a good position to give out a bit of advice. I came to the game a little late you see. I was the perfect child apparently, until about 2 1/2. Mummy made the big mistake of sending me to a childminder, there was an older girl there who filled me in on the art of parent training. So, without further a do, I decide to make up for 2 years of angelic behaviour with a whole week of short, sharp, shock parent training. Firstly, mummy went to get her hair cut, so she left me at auntie's house for an hour. Ha! Auntie only had boys, so she wasn't prepared for me. I noticed she was particularly fond of a green leafy thing she called "Hoster", I thought it was bloody vile, so I pulled every leaf and flower off it. God she went puse! I didn't like that colour on her face, so I thought I would claw it off. Mummy went a pink colour when auntie told her. Anyone we went home. It was a lovely sunny day. I waited for mummy to nip to the loo, so I nipped in the open shed pah! she'd left my favourite colour paint in there. Pink. Naturally I thought I would suprise mummy and paint the new decking and fence. If you look closely enough, you can still see it. So I didn't want to leave out my lovely uncle, he being only 22 and making a half arsed attempt at leaving home by moving in with his big sister. Anyway, I stuck those stinky smoky sticks in his mouth, yuck! horrid. I thought I would teach him a lesson by chucking them in the full sink. To make sure he couldn't purchase any more of the horrible sticks, I ripped up 25 quid for good measure. Ha! what a day! Mummmy was so impressed she still laments about it now.

Well done, calamity, you showed them who's boss! How dare your mummy send you away to a childminder? Such cruelty deserves consequences

Dery dery (inconsolable crying forever).

My not like it your mummy.

My am three. My like it the new game. My stand other side of door and hold handle so mummy can't get in.

She gets dery cross but it's dery funny.

It is dery good swing too when you gets big

Anyone tried this classic? Wait till they've come back from that big warehousey place with things like bread and milk and stuff. Watch while they unpack it all. When they're not paying attention, carefully make a hole in the large packet of those bum wiping roll things and drop their car keys into the middle of a roll. If the key ring has the house keys on it, even better. Just do what you can. The plastic will stop the keys falling out the other end and it will take bloody ages for them to find them Unless they have the runs, in which case they might get to them sooner, which will spoil the effect a bit. God this was one of my best moments. Preferably tackle this one before you are able to speak. Then they can't bribe/torture you until you squawk. It really has legs this one.