To be finding DS annoying?

[Destinedtogo]

I know all children are annoying so I suppose I’m not unreasonable in that sense but I’m becoming increasingly frustrated by a pretend game DS is playing. He seems obsessed and lost in that game and I feel I can’t reach him as a result.

So today for example DS spent the morning at preschool. I know he had lots of outdoor play and also did some baking - great. Picked him up at midday and he just kept shouting ‘it’s a hose mummy. There’s a fire! It’s a hose!’

‘Did you enjoy baking your cake?’
‘there’s a fire!’
’did you play with your friends?’
’A hose mummy! A hose!’

His behaviour hasn’t been great over the last couple of days and if I try to speak to him about it he just keeps going on about fires and hoses.

Reading bedtime stories is a nightmare as all he wants are stories about Fireman Sam - apart from the fact they’re so boring whenever I turn the page he shouts FIRE.

I know he’s all a phase but AIBU to be finding this one exceptionally tedious?

🤣🤣🤣🤣 sorry but I think this is hilarious

Fiiiiiirrreeeee

Have you never met a small child before?

You should just be grateful it isn't Thomas The Fucking Fire Engine.

Toot toot.

Your child's behaviour is totally normal and age-appropriate (and also, adorable). Try engaging with him- asking him where the fire is, pretending to help him put it out, etc. And read him as many Fireman Sam stories as he likes. Part of your job as a parent is to engage in your child's interests.

Have you never met a small child before?

According to the much-loved on here How To Talk So Little Kids Will Listen, you can have a conversation with children of this age.

At the moment, I can’t … and that is a bit depressing. I don’t expect amazing things but a yes or a no? An expression of preference for one thing or the other? Surely?

When you engage with him he just endlessly repeats stuff about fires and hoses. It is cute … at first!

But it is a tad tedious as well.

Firreeeeeeeee.

Mine was obsessed Paw Patrol. I know the dogs talk in that show, but it didn’t stop her bloody woofing and barking.

It’ll be done and dusted before you know it! 🔥🔥

My DD keeps taking a plastic axe to the kitchen cupboards to save her trapped teddy (obviously dressed as a firewoman). My job is to pretend I’m the teddy and scream “help help! Please won’t somebody saaaaave me”. She has a little crowbar as well which she uses to lever open the door after she thinks she’s hacked it enough.

So from my perspective it could be worse.

Yeah kids are really annoying.

You’ve given me hope @CathyAnne91 although he’s just getting into Paw Patrol so maybe that will be next! (The theme to it keeps aggressively playing in my head as well.)

Oh god we have the plastic axe as well.

Count your blessings it’s not The Lion King like my DD OP who keeps wanting me to be Mufasa and keep dying over and over and if I dare talk she shouts “ YOUR DEAD!!!! ITS NOT THE STARRY BIT YET MUFASA!!!!! “

Want to trade @Destinedtogo lol 😅

My son was a dinosaur for two and half weeks when he was three. And then for occasional days until he was five.
When he was a dinosaur he would roar instead of talk and stomp instead of walk and would announce semi regularly that he needed to do a dino poo and if his sister walked too close to him he would shout "Owww, she stepped on my tail!!" .
It was cute for a day then got old quick. We humored it for a few days and then sort of ignored it, he grew out of it eventually and it is funny to look back on.
But god yeah it was annoying at the time especially when trying to give him peas while he cried that he cpuldn't eat peas as he was a "car-vi-nor"

Is he 3/4? I’d tell my 4 year old off for not answering a direct question.

lol, FIREEEEEEEE!

So cute.

It's just a phase, my kid loved diggers and talking about diggers. We had so many books about building sites, we had a book called Goodnight Goodnight Construction Site.
Wow that was boring and annoying.

Now it's speed cubes, I can't tell you how annoying and boring it is to watch a kid do a Rubics cube and tell you about it.

Just smile and "enjoy" it 😉

If you are finding this tedious, then I hate to be the one to break it to you that there are many other much more tedious ones ahead!

You’re all making me laugh 😂 It seems I have many years of this to come, although I might have to hide the fireman Sam books … I yearn for the Julia Donaldson classics, Tiger Who Came to Tea, no, it’s all about Pontypandy!

💐 handhold…. Just a warning, she tried to take down a wall 🤦🏽‍♀️and if you have the siren hide it now.

Paw Patrol here. Endless, endless monologues - ‘Ryder! Ryder! Help! I’m falling! Ryder! Ryder!’ ad bloody infinitum.

Sympathies. Would like to say it’ll pass, but I’ve just had my ear chewed off on what felt like a very long dog walk by my 9yo describing Percy Jackson in excruciating detail…

At least he's not meowing, putting plates on the floor and trying to lap up water/milk of them and crawl around the house with a trainer in his mouth.

That was a fun period.

Before you know it he'll be a teenager who grunts at you occasionally and rolls his eyes at everything you say. Make the most of it!

One of mine would only respond "Dadd-oo-deet" in a mechanical type voice. To anything. For about ten days. He was a robot. I was in need of gin.

But I can be the perfect parent to a teenager before I have one!

That's kids, my 7 year old still won't tell me about his day but will almost list the evolution of all the pokemon 🙄

I would love bomb him on the fire stuff, visit a fire station and look at fire engines, get a spray bottle and pretend to put out fires... It's annoying but I think if you put a bit more umph to it, it can become more enjoyable to you as well as he will absolutely love it. He will find something else just as annoying soon!

Take him to a fire station and get it out of his system. Sure be good for you too.... 😜

To me, this all sounds fun! My DS is currently going through a maze phase. We have drawn hundreds and hundreds of the bloody things over the last couple of weeks. We've actually run out of paper.