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?

DD role played Fireman Sam relentlessly for about 6 months. Then she was a puppy for about a year. At least then I could ask her to fetch things for me...

Aww op, I had a fireman Sam obsessed DS. Norman Price was the bane of my life but honestly in a few years you'll look back and smile at his behaviour just now.

Solidarity. I'm finding my kid annoying af, he's only 2.5, I feel guilty as hell

I’m reassured it’s normal, although I kind of wish I could get involved in it with drawing or colouring or similar but it’s just endless ‘fire!’

Norman Price is a very bad role model!

Fireman Sam was my dds first love it'll pass.

Oh god the pirate maps, every movement was hunting for treasure, but I did get some use out of it when I said there was treasure in the car and he should hunt for it in his car seat, fastest he ever got in his car seat.

maybe you could tell him there is a fire he needs to investigate in his bed at bedtime

Just wait till you get to the pokemon phase.........you'll be begging for fireman sam🧑‍🚒

My son was obsessed with Fireman Sam at 2 then at 3 went to paw patrol... He's 4 now and back into fireman Sam and it's actually really nice. I've perfected my Dilis impression 🤣

I've felt the same with my youngest, only it was Mickey Mouse.
But I'm also the bearer of possible bad news - youngests obsessions never stopped and they're now a teen, only the pretend play part of the obsessions (I have had to say that I don't understand/have much of a vested interest in the current obsession, but will always listen and attempt to understand...)

The Pokémon stage is nothing compared to the Minecraft stage...

I remember cutting out some paper 'flames' and using bluetak and having to stick them all over the place for my DS to extinguish one after the other😂

I would say it gets better but mine is only 5 and on the pathway assessment for ASD. He is constantly in his imaginary world and just when you think he's going to give you an actual answer to a question he goes straight back to his characters. Some very one side conversations here!

Today for example:

Me:ooh look you got given this book today at school as x in your class is having an operation on his heart today. Like when you went to hospital for the operation for your ears, do you remember? Hes being very brave and the doctors will look after him. He won't be back at school for a little while though.

DS: (pause) Blaze! Crusher has made a chicken robot whose wrecking the living room...

@Pjmasksonrepeat that does sound exactly like DS.

My lovely then 6 year old was the most boring child alive when it came to interests. 2 verrryyy loong years we had to talk about which moshi monster I like best (none of them) and why (I don't care) and then which one second (none of them) and why (still don't care). Everyday for 2 years. I used to try so hard to find it vaguely interesting sometimes but fuck me. I hated Moshi monsters.

But nothing has ever beaten the brain destroying stories of Thomas the fuckwit tank engine. Very very sadly we left all the books totally by accident not at all on purpose in a charity shop and then (shock) forgot which one it was.

My dd and her friend at that age invented a game called "pass the pink". As far as I could tell it was like Mornington Crescent.
They'd be doing something that only they understood, then one of them would say something like, "stop, the blue needs to be upside down, then it can count as purple" and the other one would say "of course, I forgot... But if you put the purple on top of an orange it will mix with the yellow..."
It was fine until they wanted me to play then apparently I was always doing it wrong because I was breaking the "rules".
I never even worked out what the point was, but it kept them happy for hours at times.

Wait till he gets to 13 and talks constantly about FIFA and every single football player from 1955 to 2024.

You’ll be wishing you had fire and hoses back….

Oh this was DS17 for years. Endless Fireman Sam on tv, dvd and god knows what else. We got the lot bedding, curtains everything !

It got to the stage we must have visited every fire station in Cornwall annually. I remember once we went to a fire station and DS knew more about the fire equipment than the firefighters (they were really impressed).

He even wanted to be one as he was growing up but then decided he wanted to be a PE teacher.

Thankfully now it's football 😂

Love this!

Feel your pain here. DS17 has been totally onto his football since secondary school. Now he's a qualified referee 😊

Ds is 16yo and we get tanks.

He thinks we should have a tank instead of a family car and an Apache helicopter on the roof for security. We live in one of the least crime areas of England.
I've told him I would struggle to sleep with the noise of one of those above, let alone the cost.

We have whole car journeys with him arguing about this. I'm not even sure whether he just thinks it's a joke now or he's serious.

When he was 6yo he was most put out I wouldn't buy him a Harrier Jump Jet for the back garden. So I suppose he hasn't changed that much.

If you think that is bad wait until the Pokemon cards and how they can memorise them, recite facts but can't learn their 10 spelling words!

Thats kinda what they do. It is a phase they will grow out of it. But it is normal. And healthy. Just a tad annoying when as any adult you want to move on.
Just have to entertain it. At least he isn't misbehaving and kicking you and biting. It could be a whole lot worse.

2 and a half weeks? One of Mike was a cat for years. Now she's 9 and constantly asks me to quiz her on her latest autistic special interest. This particular interest has been running for two years and it is all she wants to talk about. It bores me to actual tears.

My 2 year old is currently a T-Rex. I know this because for the last 3 days all I've heard from her is "I'm a T-Rex . Roooaaarrrrrr" while showing me her claws. Then we listen to the T-Rex song for the 50 thousandth time. Send help.

Don't take him to a firestation as suggested....we did that and there was a real life fire dog at the open day.

I now have to play fire dogs where DD is the dog and I have to do all the voices of the 'children' visiting on a pretend open day and then take part in a daring rescue....oh and it's also the fire dog's birthday where I have to sing and present a pretend dog treat cake. It is all scripted beyond belief now. 🤣

God I have a now 5 year old who was 2 when the first lockdown hit. We got out the brio set and spent our boris allocated daily exercise walking to various trainspotting locations (bridges, stations, fences, to the depot to peek over the fence)..

FML he's been through other phases (bloody bing bunny, Taylor swift, blippi, peppa), but the train collections and obsession has grown and grown.

Now he has a little brother who loves copying him so our house is basically one giant train track .. we are constantly tripping over pieces of track that span the whole bloody house! And I've had to help him make TFL roundels to stick on different parts of the house, "elephant and castle" is his brother's room, his bedroom is "Waterloo"...