to desperately want 6 year old to STOP doing handstands

[Twiglett]

one after another after another after another

STOP IT

you're giving me motion sickness fgs

she can come here and join DD. She does cartwheels though.

Annoying isn't it?

it's a boy

but thanks .. I'll package him up .. can you cat me your address?

(problem is when he does perfect straight ones that he holds for 4 seconds I can't help going 'oh that was a great one')

grrr and mine, although they keep trying to go over into a bridge

The gym class seemed a good idea at the time

Was headstands with dd a while ago.

I used to freak out about her neck

It's the repetition of the accompanying rhymes that get me:
Handstand, elastic band, who can stay up the looooongest (eeeked out for however long the handstand lasts)

Or the variation that 5yo dd appears to have been taught by some of the older girls at after school club:
Handstand, elastic band, who can show their butt for the looooongest ?!

Another cartwheeler here. Over and over and over and over and over again

'Mummy! watch, watch me! mummy? mummy? watch this? did you see that one? mummy? watch? watch? Mummy? watch this one? watch me mummy? mummy? watch this? Did you see that one? Mummy? Look! Look at me! Watch this? Watch me! Mummy? MUUUUMMMMYYYYYY!!!!

etc.

Me - fixed grin, cold dead eyes.

'wow, yes! gosh, good, yes. Uhuh! Another good one, yes. That was a good one. Yes, yes. Yes. Oh and that one. That was good, well done. That was also good. Gosh. Yep. Good. Yes. And that one. Yes. Well done. Well done! Wow.

I'm feeling that emotion Boco

LOL Boco. In my house it's:

Mummy I've built a tower, look, look, mummy, have you seen it WAAAAAAAAAH dd knocked my tower over. Mummy I've built another tower, look, look, LOOK, it's a palace...WAAAAAAAAh dd/daddy/the cat/I knocked it over...repeat adinfinitum....

For my responses see Boco's post...

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Do you think they'd notice if we made at tape and played it on loop?

We constantly have the handstands too! But also accompanied with a rhyme-

I am the greatest (points to self)
Not for longest (shakes finger)
Under over pepsi cola (Pretends to twirl hair)
un deui trois (claps hands 3 times)

(then you do the hand stand)

Oh Crumbs must be bad, i can remember the rhyme!

Yes, what a good idea, really, that's great, fantastic, really?!

Is it working?

There must be something wrong with me. I want my 5 1/2 year old boy to do the handstand, just to scared he is going to crash down. So far he is doing some pretty good headstands up against the wall!

OMG I thought it was just my 6 year old who did this - always at a terrifying speed from one sofa over to the next, ending up in handstand with bottom half of legs visible from front room window Problem is dd3 (22 months) is now attempting to copy, with 6 year old acting as coach It is very wearing...esp when getting chided for looking at computer screen rather than 'this is the best ever' identical to the other 100 handstands of the day .

YABU -