To want a change from dinosaurs

[Reallytired]

My six year old is truely obsessed with dinosaurs at the moment. Its driving me nuts.

At bed time he wanted to read 3 story books about dinosaurs, he wants to wear dinosaur pjamas, he wants to us to decorate his bedroom with dinosaur wall paper, we spent 2 hours making dinosaur models today, yesterday he wanted to watch his Prehistoric Park DVD.

My son thinks I am unreasonable as I have point blank refused to let him watch Jurassic Park. I feel its too violent.

It will pass. And you will miss it - especially if he moves onto something like Power Rangers. At least dinosaurs are educational.
I agree with you about Jurassic Park though.

I'll swap you for football.

Mum, do you think Peter Crouch is better in left back field defence than Steven Gerrard? I think in the 2-4-8 formation with a back powered left handed smorgasbord they should have Pepe Reina in attack cos he played a blinder in the last match against Munchengladbach he just hammered it in from his half with his left foot they should play him in that position in the FA Cup Final do you know in the 1996 Cup Final Stevie G scored...?

It doesn't seem to matter to him that I have no idea what he is talking about (and very little interest...bad Mummy).

At least I know a diplodocus from a stegosaurus

We have actually moved from being obsessed with power rangers to being obsessed with dinosaurs. I agree it is an improvement.

However the obsession with dinosaurs is truely heavy duty at the moment.

LOL. Same here (hence my name). Only mine is a girl, and just 3!

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Oh I don't know. I never bothered to learn the dinosaur names the first time round and now I'm having to learn to pronounce them so he can learn them (age 4). I'm quite enjoying the new information.

Well, you should at least try and get some fun of it! :) Come on, I can already tell apart the t-rex, the stegosaurus, the diplodocus, the velociraptor, the iguanodon and the pterodacti-how-ever-you-write-it... If you can't beat them, join them!

By the way, which are your kids favourite dino films? DD loves 'Fantasia' (the bit with the dinosaurs) and I am trying to get her 'Ice Age 3'. DP wanted to play 'Jurassic Park' but I too thought it would be too scary (I was 12 when I saw it and remember screaming out loud in the cinema when the t-rex appeared).

Iguanodon - same here, DD's obsession began at age 2 and she'll be 4 in a few weeks. It alternates occasionally to Ben and Holly - I prefer the dinosaurs. It is pretty exhausting though! - and people seem to pass comment on it being strange for being a pre-school girl to be into dinosaurs.

D'oh, the old story... Pink for girls, blue for boys... Personally, I prefer her talking about dinos than about princesses... But it's true, it pisses me off that dinosaurs, pirates, cars and tank engines seem to be 'boys only territory'. Why do people keep encouraging that?

Reallytired- you could be me! My 3yo DS is obsessed with the bloody creatures!

I have been forced to learn all the different dinos too, and all he wants for Christmas is...more dinosaurs (or diceynors, as he calls them!) The only stories he wants to read are dino books- I have just spent a fortune buying every dino book on amazon for Christmas. He has dino PJs, dino slippers and he throws a strop in the morning if his T-shirt does not depict a dinosaur (I have 6 dino themed T-shirts, so day seven is always a nightmare!)

I find the spiky little devils in my shoes, my bed, my handbag. There is a giant inflatable T-rex in my living room (soon to be joined by a giant inflatable stegosaurus, thanks to Santa)

My worry is that when he gets fed up he will have nothing else to play with!

LOL :)

Has he seen "Denver the Last Dinosaur" it's a truely awful cartoon from god knows when but I loved it at about the same age as your ds. I was obsessed with dinosaurs too and my 3 month old ds now has a lot of dinosaur themed clothes...