Two boys, aged 6 & 9. They are very kind and sweet, would do anything to help out if someone needed it. But they are WILD. The level of physical exuberance and energy takes some beating. They play soldiers upstairs, and all I can hear is rolling/thudding/screeching. It sounds like they are seriously hurt but no, it’s part of the game. They roll around on the sofa and jump in each other and play fight there. Pillows, knee-drops, launching themselves across the room. They go out in the garden and cross-fight with sticks and shout orders at one another. They take their clothes off and dance around naked and find it hilarious.
They can’t seem to ever sit and just watch a film, or chill the fuck out. Mum had them for an afternoon to give me a break. They ended up in the pond. Literally in it, and all their clothes had to be changed.
I run them off at the park, take them on walks in the woods - again they fight each other with sticks or build forts and barricades. No other children seem to do this. They are so so wilful. Older one is a handful. Doesn’t listen, purposefully ignores me. He winds his brother up - I can’t seem to get him to relax. They get cross and tired and hungry and hit each other and shout. It’s a struggle. They talk about poos, bums, willies all the time. Anything crude or inappropriate to do with body parts sets them off.
I am finding them hard work. Does anyone else have boys like this? To say they are spirited would be an understatement. And yet the bond between them is very strong - they seek each other out all the time and the older one has a kind of paternal empathy towards the younger one. I’m very tired