My child wants to be a pain au chocolat - is this normal?

[Basketofkittens]

He is two.

He wants to be a food stuff - such as a pain au chocolat, stew or cake.

We were baking pain earlier and he proceeded to put his soft toy turtle into the pastry and said he wanted to be in the pastry too and get warmed up in the oven.

Am I raising a strange child or is this normal? 😂🐢🥐

I wanted to be Pooh Bear until I was about and a half...
To the point where I would introduce myself to people as ‘Pooh Bear “Surname”’
Luckily I grew out of this just before I started school 😂

About 4 and a half **

If I was to be a food item I can think of things a lot worse than a pain au chocolat

My DS wanted to be a scarecrow until he was 4. Then he met his first girlfriend at 5 and then wanted to be a bodyguard. 😂

@Confrontayshunme

I think you may have been my daughters teacher!
Either that or there were 2 very strange groups of pre teen girls.

My others have been fairly normal, pirate, superhero etc. though my 3 year old did spend 15 mins having a conversation with the bathroom radiator last week so maybe not that normal!

Haha normal! Me and my sister used to take it in turns to roll one another up in a duvet like Samuel Whiskers did to Tom Kitten and be a rolypoly pudding 🤣🤣

Your son sounds fabulous!

Mine wanted to be a tiger for about six months.

DD when asked what would she like to do as a job came up with:
Monday-Friday owning my own games design multinational corporation
Weekends: part time mermaid

Cracks me up!

@CharityConundrum

My dd aged 5 likes us to us her full name which apparently is.

(First name)(middle name)ninky nonk peppa pig ubercorn Elsa plait Anna plaitssss

I get some weird looks when taking her out.

Mine just wants to be a Pain in de Arse. Doubt he'll ever grow out of it, tbh.

How lovely.
In a few years it'll probably be possible! 😂

There's a book by Maurice Sendak, the writer of Where the Wild Things Are, in which a little boy gets mixed up in cake batter and baked by chefs, but he turns the dough into a dough plane and flies away. It's called In the Night Kitchen and it was banned because in the illustrations you see his willy! It's unbanned now though. Maybe your son would like that book.

My DSD wants to be a cucumber! I'd say pretty normal

Here's the cover. I love it that when it came out librarians would draw little underpants on the illustrations to prevent moral outrage!

I have that book Tracey! My mum used to have a page from it framed in our kitchen

My DD is 12 and requested a burrito blanket last week. She's often asked me to wrap her up like sushi, but now she has a round blanket patterned like a tortilla wrap, I have to roll her in it. Perfectly normal in our house

@30to50FeralHogs

Brilliant! But now I need to know if it was one of the several willy pages, and if so did your mum draw underpants on??

Brilliant! But now I need to know if it was one of the several willy pages, and if so did your mum draw underpants on??

Ha ha! No, no willies, it was the page with the chefs (I guess being kitchen related) but she thought my DS looked like Mickey when he was born with a big shock of black spiky hair so she bought me the book and photoshopped a pic of him with my son's name on it. Happy memories

My DS3 wanted to be a button at one point.

He sounds cute and innocent. My mums friends daughter who was 14 wanted to be a cat and used to drink like a cat from a bowl... now that's not cute that's fucking weird

When I was early teens a friend of mine asked me to put the spare mattress on her so she could be a sandwich. ("Make me a sandwich!!" ) I hope she's on here and sees this, she was ace and I miss her.

This thread is adorable

(My kid wants to be a teacher, but that's a blatant control fantasy. Wants allllll the power.)

I’m shocked at the level of bigotry on here! Laughing at these vulnerable children, when you should be encouraging them to be their true selves. I think you should immediately book most of them into Tesco for counselling. These poor children being refused the ingredients to be their authentic food selves. The other none food children are just jumping on the band wagon, so we can dismiss them.

I guess there are worse things to be

DS2 is 8 and when he was about 4 he spent an entire summer dressed as a cat and responding only to the name "cat" (his imagination was shite, that's for sure). I gave up and let him be "cat" and eventually he grew into "not cat" and now we're 8 we're equally ridiculous but without a tail.