Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

Please or to access all these features

Behaviour/development

Talk to others about child development and behaviour stages here. You can find more information on our development calendar.

3 year olds and silliness...

9 replies

BornToYolk · 30/04/2011 19:09

Does anyone else's 3 year old caper? DS is driving me potty doing it! He dances around, arms and legs all over the place, tongue hanging out and making noises (kind of singing, but not proper words). We usually let him get on with it, distracting him if it gets too annoying or asking him to be quiet if we're talking or need him to be quiet. It feels like he's been doing it all day long today. It's like his default mechanism if he's got nothing else to do - he'll caper for a bit! Confused

He also talks a load of nonsense. He's very verbal and can be articulate when he wants to be but he makes up a lot of words. We were drawing a house today and he drew a scribble on it and said it was a "cranky". Sometimes it's hard to get a sensible word out of him. He makes up lots of stories too and doesn't seem to understand the difference between real and pretend.

The silliness is starting to grate a bit and I'm hoping that someone can tell me that it's totally normal and when it'll pass...

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
theghostofposhlymanor · 30/04/2011 19:55

Yes of course. That's what 3 year olds are best at Grin

Firawla · 30/04/2011 20:34

I think its normal, mine goes around singing nonsense quite a lot of the time, dancing around, twirling round in circles etc. Does yours watch or like Thomas cos cranky is that crane from thomas so maybe he means that? Alot of the time when people would not know what my ds was on about it would be because it is all thomas related, he sometimes presumes people will know what he means if he goes up to them and just starts saying things like "i want to buy a cranky" "my grannys gonna get me a diesel" or whatever else, i think its just at their age group sometimes if they are very interested in something they presume others will also be, which can account for quite a bit of the nonsense?

BornToYolk · 30/04/2011 20:48

Phew, glad someone else thinks it's normal! Grin

I don't think it's Cranky the crane he's on about, it's definitely just noises he makes up! It doesn't seem to come from anywhere specific.

I suppose I should be grateful that he's got an active imagination, it just gets a bit wearing sometimes....

OP posts:
Mummyloveskisses · 30/04/2011 21:56

My DD 3.4yrs is the same.... just loves the sound of her own voice!

She makes up words ALL the time, and she gets me to repeat them... she's never happier then when she is singing and twirling

Lovemy2babies · 01/05/2011 06:44

My DD who is 3 is like this, talks constant crap and likes to lick me.

Drives me potty....

I have to stop myself from telling people "shes bright really!" Hmm

Confuzzeled · 01/05/2011 06:59

Sorry but I think it's so funny and you'll miss it when he stops.

DD now 4 has stopped being silly and has become very aware of embarrassing herself (doesn't stop her talking non-stop though). Ds 20mo has just started mad dancing and generally being a crazy toddler. It's totally normal.

mmmmmchocolate · 01/05/2011 07:09

Thank god it's not just mine! DD1 is worse when she is around her baby sister it's very annoying!

ponyprincess · 03/05/2011 13:51

I love all these stories, so glad my ds (3 yrs) is not the only one!

He loves making up words/names-everyday will give his nursery teacher a different name when he says goodbye-'Goodbye googoorooney',etc--luckily she thinks it's charming!

Loves all of the crazy dancing and funny faces

Makes himself laugh with nonsense like 'Imagine your nose was in your eye', then hysterical laughter at his own wit :)

BornToYolk · 03/05/2011 13:53

Glad it's not just DS then! He's actually been a bit more sensible these past few days, I think he was just having a particularly silly day.
He's back at nursery too, so I think he's working out a lot of the silliness there, with his friends, and being a bit calmer at home.

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page