A DC of this age - not typical?

[littlemonkey5]

Just been vacuuming the livingroom and DC1 is on the iPad.

Me: What you doing Littlemonkey 1?
LM1: I am window shopping at ASDA
Me: What?
LM1: I am window shopping online for Shopkins, I have a budget of £6 in my money tin and at the moment my basket says £4.50.
Me: Riiigghhhhttt......
LM1: Can you do the week's shopping online and pay for this too? I'll give you the money......
Me: carries on vacuuming, pondering if I heard her correctly

AIBU to think that not all 7yr olds think this way? Because, despite my DD coming up with this on a regular basis, I don't think it is typical for this age...... Littlemonkey 3 is also coming up with this type of reasoning and he is only 3!!!

Bless them!

I don't know. But 5yo ds's response when I wonder out loud about things (e.g. world's tallest building etc) is to tell me to "Google it. Google is your friend."

Sounds brilliant! And pretty usual. My dd is 5 and is saving her money for our holiday in August, she's decided she wants £5 a day to spend for the 10 days we are away plus an extra £20...she's pretty much saved that too!

It was when DS (3) said that he thought the magic word was 'defenestrate' that I realised I should probably stop making improbable threats about things that might happen if he didn't behave. He knows what it means too.

I'm pretty sure nursery already think we're weird.

Small children are fantastically good at language acquisition. At all sorts of learning actually. Be very careful what you accidentally teach them

I remember DS loved Octonauts aged 3 and came out with some incredible marine biology facts and vocabulary! The following year he developed a dinosaur obsession and could identify all sorts of extravagantly-named dinosaurs. They are amazing at soaking up knowledge (but go inexplicably deaf when asked to tidy up or put pjs on...)

Well I think it's utterly smart of your dd!

My dd (8 yrs) will something she'd like for her birthday/Christmas about a month before, then conveniently forgets

1. The name of object
2. Where she saw it
3. The purpose "it's a thing for a thing"

Cue me, running round searching the Internet for fucking imaginary present.
I,ve told her tokens from here on in fuck that palaver

Would that she was as self directed and savvy as your dd.

Would that she was as self directed and savvy as your dd.

lol but with that, comes horrendous tantrums when she can't get her own way!!

I think my surprise was that she is navigating the internet completely on her own (no worries about dodgy sites in this house thank goodness). Today she was looking at Build A Bear workshops. On another tab,. she had google maps where she had put in our postcode to go to Bristol...... didn't want to tell her that Exeter is closer now we've moved - bless! Apparently the mermaid party is out - BABW is in! Nooooo..... far too expensive! Pool party with teddy bears as a compromise maybe??? lol

I don't know. But 5yo ds's response when I wonder out loud about things (e.g. world's tallest building etc) is to tell me to "Google it. Google is your friend."

brilliant! I like this! lol

When DD was 3, she asked where babies came from. I said, magic cuddles. She folded her arms, looked at me with pursed lips and said "I don't think you are telling me the whole truth, lets sit and talk"......