What’s your 8 year old like?

[ChiChaNaYubi]

Because mine is driving me crazy.

She has zero ability to use her brain to think for herself. She’s weepy and emotional, she mopes about the house and doesn’t want to do anything ever.
Every single day we have the same arguments and I’m so tired of it. The same battle every day is cleaning her teeth, brushing her hair, sitting on her chair properly etc. She has to be just as bored of hearing it as I am of saying it!

Is this normal? My friend said her 8 year old is the same. When does it end 🥲

That sounds like mine except he's 22!!😂😂😂😱😂 maybe you should have them checked for autism?

I have a 9 year old DS. He is so bright, scarily so. He absolutely loves learning. He loves reading, writing his own stories. He’s very imaginative and I’ll come down in the morning most times he’s made up his own country, or written a song, or a comic strip or something. He’s really funny in a sarcastic/dry sort of way. He is a really sensitive soul - I twisted my ankle on holiday and had to use crutches/a wheelchair to get about and he was bereft. He took great care of me! He’s a great big brother and takes the role very seriously!

He is also, obnoxious, precocious and can be extremely annoying. He thinks he knows EVERYTHING and can’t be told otherwise. He even corrects his teacher sometimes. He has lots of friends but not really best or close friends and I think that’s why - he is constantly trying to one up people. He gets really annoyed if he isn’t the best at something straight away, eg it took him a while to do a forward roll in his swimming lessons and he was unbearable until he could do it, and the second he mastered it he’s suddenly an Olympic swimmer and showing off to people who can’t yet do it! He is also quite spoilt (not sure why - we aren’t particularly generous!) he gets angry when we say he can’t have eg more Pokémon cards, a new PS game etc. He also does this REALLY annoying thing, where he’ll ask me questions he already knows the answer to, to ‘test’ me.

All in all he’s a gem and a good boy really 😉

My 8yo (girl) is inconsistent.

We never know if we are going to get the witty, kind, chatty version or the screeching banshee.

On the whole when she isn't in banshee mode she's a very kind, nurturing, warm child. Good at sport and creative. Has a lot more common sense than our 10yo (boy). Always has impeccable reports at school. But she is impulsive and the messiest child I've ever known.

Lots of mood swings at the moment but she's my cuddly child and she's very tactile (holding hands / sitting on my lap).
She's very good with her younger sibling who is disabled.... very patient and calm. In fact the youngest is the only one who escapes her wrath.

The joys of hormones

My 8 yo is great at being organised gets up with her alarm gets ready for school herself etc. my 12 year old on the other hand, will walk around half dressed crying because she can’t find socks, seems completely incapable of a organising herself at all and never has! So I think it’s mostly just individual personalities

My 8 year old girl in many respects, 'has it all'. Academic, sporty, popular, creative and kind!

But Jesus Christ she grates on me sometimes! Everything has to be now now now! She can be greedy with food. Anything you ask her to do you'd think you'd asked her to sacrifice a kidney. Oh and sometimes she turns violent when you try and get her up in the morning!

I've read they have a hormone surge at this age and overall she's not that bad!

I think you might be our nanny... this describes my daughter to a T.

Thankfully she’s now a very capable switched on 14 year old (who no longer needs a nanny!) so it does get better. But my goodness she was a challenge at that age. I used to try not to say ‘please don’t just sit there like a lemon’ and word it more constructively multiple times a day but my god there was so much lemon 🤣

My DD is 9.5 closer to 10 going through puberty and is a walking ball of hormones. She is a good child but my god one minute she's like happy as Larry tidying up then bang!! Crying, answering back, lazy. Our current battle is not picking up her dirty washing it drives me f*ing mental! She's fine with everything else and also leaves rubbish lying like rappers and stuff. She's been told tomorrow we are attacking her room with bin bags, cleaning spray and the hoover 😂 so looking forward to teenage years..... NOT!

When I first read about 'adrenarche' it was like it was written specifically about my 8yo!!

Mines been like this since he was 8. He's 10 now. It's still quite bad.
Hoping he will sort it out over summer.

Really hope it's just hormones

My 8 year old talks about Roblox incessantly. Other than that she is not too bad.

I have an 8 and a 9 year old girl, and I don’t recognise this behaviour. The 9 year old does need quite a bit of reminding about obvious things (hang your coat up, tidy your room), but we’ve not had intense mood swings or grumpiness. Maybe something is going on at school?

My 8 year old has no concept of time. We are regularly late for school. I say right we have 1 hour until school, then 20 mins, then 3 mins etc and we are still late.

She's so fussy about her clothes. Has lots of lovely things mostly chosen by her but wants to keep wearing same 1 or 2 items.

She also worries what people will think of her, if they will think she's a baby for sitting in a car seat etc but I think this stems from an older sister as she sees her sister not in a car seat, wearing make up etc

Mine is like jekyll and Hyde. Can be so loving, caring, funny, creative but then a switch goes off and the attitude is unreal. Answering back, has to have the last word, says " whatever" all the time- it's draining.