To think this is quite babyish behaviour from an 8 year old?

[justwanttolooks]

Looking after DNiece the whole of today and my patience is really being tested.

Comments like "it's no fun here" and "Can we take the radiator off of the wall and jump in the hole?" are really testing me

She won't leave baby DC alone either, despite my constant repeats of please leave DC.

Perhaps I'm being very unreasonable and just slightly irritable because I have horrendous nausea caused by a migraine from yesterday.

I didn't want to say no because he's DMum can't take any more time off and their other person in place cancelled last minute.

There's also lots of very loud and obnoxious laughter, and repeating what I say in a funny voice

I find it quite out of place for 8 because I have sisters of the same age who wouldn't dream of it. Not because they can't be mouthy but because this type of behaviour just seems incredibly young for 8

my own children shouldn’t be saying silly things to me anyway, and I would be really annoyed if they said it to anyone else.

Your children arent allowed to say silly things? So basically arent allowed to be children?

my own children shouldn’t be saying silly things to me anyway, and I would be really annoyed if they said it to anyone else.

and

My DD6 likes paper games, such as hangman, noughts and crosses etc

Thankfully I only deal with 8 year olds in a group (Brownie leader) so I can send silly bored ones off to entertain themselves because there’s a group of them. They usually prefer being silly with other 8 year olds than to boring old Brown Owl

My first thought when reading her strange questions was to say “hmmm I don’t know, why don’t you write me a story/draw me a picture of what might happen?” And send her in the direct of pens and paper.

Or send her on a scavenger hunt in the garden. “Something for every letter of your name/the alphabet” etc. Then use what she finds to make a picture. Wellies and coat on if it’s raining.

At Scout camp bored Scouts frequently get sent to ask another leader for a “long weight” or “two short stands” but that only works if you have another adult who will play along.

Or I was watching Outnumbered recently (y’know that classic parenting advice program ) and the Mum said to the middle child “oh I bet you can’t run up and down the stairs in 30 seconds” he goes and does it “oh wow! I bet you can’t do it 100 times in 10 minutes” etc

Sounds like a perfectly nice child trying to ease the tension in her environment.

PinkyprettyDaisyFlowers You sound like an utter cow.