To think at age 4 she needs to stop the naughtiness!

[2ManyShenanigans]

I’ve been waiting for dd to turn 4 since she started walking! It’s my special number age where they stop doing things that are considered naughty. My other 2 kids calmed down by this age!

She’s just turned 4 last week and over the weekend she’s

1: wee’d all over the bathroom floor and not told me. It was like a mini flood. But she did change her clothes and neatly hid the wet ones in her room in the corner.

2: cut a big chunk of hair out of her fringe. I have no idea where she got the scissors or what possessed her to do such a thing. Her hair looks terrible!!

3: poked holes and ruined her sister’s birthday cake and showed no remorse.

This is half serious and half light hearted, I know she’s still a baby but omg I can’t wait for her to go to school now!

I don’t there’s a difference between b&g too. Although pfb dd was my angel child. Such a patient and lovely child. Still is. DS whines a lot and is a monkey but doesn’t do naughty things that he knows are wrong, like writing on walls (another thing dd2 does 😡). Dd2 obviously has broken the mould!

I wouldn't hold your breath 2Many. I got pulled aside by her teacher the first week because of her behaviour and lip. First week! I was mortified. I have never had that experience once with the other one. Thankfully appears to have settled down a bit in school now. I dread the teenage years and may start stocking up on the wine now.

I’m hoping that if they’re like this in childhood they might bypass the stroppy teens?! Hopefully, fingers crossed!

rcat hormones at this age? I never knew. There’s no reason for her to be anxious, she’s a very happy child. She just does things for shits and giggles. Another thing she started doing once was rolling up wet bits of tissue and throwing them up to the ceiling 😱

My husband and I agreed that the "terrible twos" had nothing on the "fucking awful fours". Both of ours were at their worst at four.

@2ManyShenanigans

Not a clue. We went through six months of her talking like SuperfuckingMario. The German thing is a vast improvement.

I have 3, ds aged 15, dd1 aged 12 and dd2 aged 10.

I am still waiting for them to grow out of it.

I'm still waiting for no 2 to "grow up" and become responsible. Felt especially smug that no 1 did this way ahead of her peers - she hated the thought of doing anything naughty - forever. I put this down to my superior parenting - like you do . Little did I know!!!

Haha, I cut a big chunk of my fringe off when I was 4 too! I wasn't trying to be naughty, I was a proper goody goody as a kid, I just wanted to have a go. Hid the hair and the scissors behind the sofa though, I knew I'd get in trouble! Mum went mad, I was having photos the next day.

at the German accent. My almost 4yo kept speaking with a jaunty French accent. I’m telling myself that now he’s actually learning French at preschool he’s now a step ahead

He was a terrible two, but a bloody awful three!! It’s like living with a mini dictator, only slightly less reasonable

No 2 is still a law unto himself and his 4 year old "creativity" is a distant memory. He was a model baby though . Just accept it Shenanigans - there's only a decade and a half to go...

My 5 year old speaks American. All thanks to kids' fking YouTube...who the fk has the time to sit & make videos of themselves opening sweets, or toys? Or making stupid videos of Spiderman rescuing Rapunzel from Batman with Elsa as his sidekick 😑😑 and they are all American. She now uses words like candy, cookie, flyer, diaper. Grrr

OhNoFuckADuck nooo! A decade and a half?! I’ll be a nervous wreck rocking back and forth in the corner by then!

mustbemad, my dd2 does a pretty good Indian accent copying “Johnny Johnny Yes Papa”, with a jaunty dance to accompany it 🤔😂😂. And yes to calling sweets “candy”..they all do that one 🙄🙄🙄

mustbe we get that too.. garbage, side walk, dollars instead of pounds. I did laugh when she came out with 'totes adorbs' though. Atm everything is 'sassy' Youtube has a lot to answer for!

Oh god the youtube videos 😂 My DS talks in a New York accent when saying things like “ shark” or “dinosaur”.. Ahh they do make us laugh.

Why? Just why 😱 Would it be totally unreasonable for me to murder some of them??! DD sits in stitches but me & OH cringe; there is one particular lady & she has this voice that just makes me want to scream! Reminds me of Janice from Friends!!!

It's not Funneh is it must? Every time I hear her I want to stick pins in my ears just to make it stop. Her high pitched shrieking is akin to nails down a blackboard.

My naughty 3 yr old dd speaks perfect German as we live in Germany and her dad is German i can't make out an accent though. She goes to kindergarten every day until 2 or she would drive me round the bend.

Zeppelin that's her!! I'd like to poke her vocal chords out with rusty nails 😡😡😱

She’s to be admired for her maturity. They don’t usually cut their own hair till at least 5yo!

Sounds familiar but dd (4)is my only child so got no one to compare to. She’s recently cut a chunk of her hair and some of her clothes ...she got paper cutting scissors as a present from her grandmother 👵

My ‘naughty’ one had got it mostly out of his system by the teen years.

DD, who was an adorable, funny, bright but really easygoing child, has started stropping appallingly.
I think I’m in for a tough ride.

One of the DTs (4) can tantrum for England but is keen on following rules.
The other is very cheerful and never has a meltdown but is impossibly naughty.

I daren’t think too far into the future.

I have a cheeky 4 year old. One of those annoying models with a charming smile to assist getting away with it.

This is not a new feature though. I remember him being in the cot and calling, "Mummy!"... "Mummy!" and before giving me chance to respond to the first shout, bellowed "SOMEWHAT!!!"

He's recently cut his hair, although fortunately used the thinning scissors which made the damage less obvious!

Dd2 went through a stage of watching that whiny “ELSIYAAA AND AAANIYA” girl on YouTube but she’s moved on to Ryan’s toy review which is slightly less annoying!

We’ve just come back from a shopping trip to Iceland and witnessed a tantrumming 2/3 year old. The mother wasnt coping well and was shouting “I’m gonna slap you in the minute” ☹️. Dd was shocked and proclaimed with a devilish smile “I’m not naughty mummy”...and my face was: 😳😳😏, ofcourse you’re not!

2Many that one is infuriating as well. The voices go right through me!!

My DD does that when she sees other kids kicking off. Or she will bring up earlier episodes of bad behaviour by people we are with...by conveniently forgetting that she too was being a pita!