in thinking that my ds is utterly perfect?

[sabire]

I know it's crap, but I'm gonna do it.

Am I deluded in thinking my six year old ds is completely perfect in every way because:

he's incredibly loving and affectionate yet absolutely unclingy and self-sufficient

he amuses himself reading encyclopaedias while singing quietly in a sweet little voice

he's interested in old people and allows old ladies to kiss and hug him without making disgusted faces

he eats everything you put on the table in front of him

he's the most popular child in his class

he's kind to babies and toddlers

he's very beautiful and delicate looking

he knows the words to every song on the new Tynchy Stryder album and can rap along convincingly

he's is so clever that his teacher has taken him out of the top set in class and has him working alone on special projects

he still likes his teddy bears

And no, his name isn't Perfect Peter.

Ok, I'll stop now.

He sounds adorable!

Lol, appreciate and enjoy him while you can.

YANBU, I feel this way about my ds who is utterly perfect in every way , he even makes his bed every morning and can sort his washing into the correct piles (he's 4 and dh still hasnt mastered this at 36 )

Well, I've got TWO perfect boys, so ner to you!

Aw, and my lovely 12 year old is poorly and so I had to take the morning off work to look after him today. When my mum came in, so that I could come to work for the afternoon, he cried because he didn't want me to go.

can I swap my DS for yours? mine's 10 and a right pain in the arse

Have you got any other "perfect" children OP?

Awww, that's lovely. When I clicked on the thread title I was expecting it to be about a much younger child and was feeling all cynical and sour and just-you-wait-ish. But that's gorgeous.

yanbu
as long as I can say my 17 yr old ds and 14 yrold dd are perfect too

Sabire, he sounds very nearly perfect but is not, of course, quite as perfect as my own 6 year old boy who has just come up and put his arms round me and said "who is the most beautifullest loveliest person with the nicest perfume in the whole wide world? its you Mummy, it really is". God, I nearly bit him, I love him so much.

Sounds too perfect to be heterosexual , so you may not get any grandchildren

Ok but he isn't as perfect as mine!

I suppose as a baby he slept through at 6 weeks and was potty trained promptly on his first birthday?

FFS. It's wonderful but makes the rest of us look a very crap lot indeed!

LOL @ madamearcati

YANBU... and neither am I

madamc

sabire - you are very lucky, not unreasonable. Enjoy him, savour him and try not to think to much about the day he flies the nest!

That's what I do with mine, who is, by the way, perfect too, even when he is having a tantrum!

"Have you got any other "perfect" children OP?"

Oh my other two are right horrors, but very loving and funny.

DD is an in-yer-face 'whatever' ,'ya get me', 'yo you is mingin' man' tweenie of 10, who can sing like Amy Winehouse (and has hair like her too!)

DS2 (4) is a brown eyed, rosebud lipped, curly headed little devil who shouts insults at people in the street if they drop rubbish, and who spends all day at the moment either goosing our labrador or trying to push the builders off the scaffolding outside his bedroom.

"Sounds too perfect to be heterosexual"

Yes, that thought has crossed my mind. He's quite camp. As well as Tynchy Stryder he's very fond of Lady Gaga, and La Rue. He's also very particular about his clothes; he can spend all day in a mud pit and come out looking immaculate... My SIL is desperate for a gay son who'll grow up and take her out shopping. Wonder if I'm the one who got lucky instead!

LeQueen, to a certain extent you make your own luck when it comes to children. Happy children are nice to be with, and they're happy because they feel loved and have very little to trouble them.

My older and younger child can be very rude and trying, but they have a great joy of life that makes them a pleasure to be with (well, for me anyway - I expect other people might want to hurl themselves off a cliff after having half an hour of dd talking at them non-stop about the plot of Waterloo Road.....)

aw bless, i have a perfect son too, hes only 1, and he makes me smile, when i'm down. is very vocal, his vocabulary at the moment is : dog, doggy, dad, shoes, no, iggle and daisy.......no mummy yet

I think my ds may be gay.

My brother is gay and he is a royal PITA so I am not sure the perfection=gay thing works. Though maybe it is the gay=perfection equation that isn't right?

Can I swap him for my nearly 6?

Mine is going through what I can only describe as a teenage stage.

Strops and allsorts.

I feel like sitting in the corner with "Bad parent" hat on.

Maybe you can sort him out for me (HOPEFUL EMOTICON)

Am I deluded in thinking my six year old ds is completely perfect in every way because:

Only if I'm also allowed to think MY DS (4.5)is perfect because.....

he's incredibly loving and affectionate yet absolutely unclingy and self-sufficient
He is alternatly massivly independant and then very clingy which reassures me that he is still my boy and he needs me - but on the other hand that he is growing up and doesn't need me quite as much.

he amuses himself reading encyclopaedias while singing quietly in a sweet little voice
he amuses himself by running madly round the living room chanting war crys, painting his tummy blue and singing this little light SHINE SHINE SHINE at the top of his not so sweet voice - because life is too wonderful, exciting and marvellous to sit sweetly in a corner

he's interested in old people and allows old ladies to kiss and hug him without making disgusted faces
He likes people who are fun and doesn't give a monkeys uncle how old they are, ont he toher hand he doesn't see why he should put up with being mauled (kissed) by random people unless he is allowed to jump on their tummies and ask for a piggyback ride.

he eats everything you put on the table in front of him
He knows what he likes to eat and isn't afraid to ask for it, help make it, get it himself or argue loudly with me when I say I've run out!

he's the most popular child in his class
He's popular and friendly but doesn't need to be the 'most' at anything

he's kind to babies and toddlers
He thinks babies are a bit boring really

he's very beautiful and delicate looking
He's gorgoues, scruffy hair, scabbed knees with a cute dimple and wicked grin - and thank god after 2 years of illness not in the least delicate looking.

he knows the words to every song on the new Tynchy Stryder album and can rap along convincingly
He knows the words to 'lets do the timewarp', and when he runs out of words isnt' afraid to stick two songs together - we bring you 'baa baa black star in the sky'

he's is so clever that his teacher has taken him out of the top set in class and has him working alone on special projects
He's so average he fits nicely into his class and doesn't have to be put out alone.

he still likes his teddy bears
He recently disembowled his teddy bear so that he could play nurse and bandage him up. We did have a problem getting the red gore out of his fur though

And no, his name isn't Perfect Peter.

Ok, I'll stop now

thanks pet that was very funny,