What is the habit in your child that you find the hardest to cope with?

[hwjm1945]

my little DS loves making dens etc, this involves moving vast amounts of stuff from rooms around the house to make the den, filling the den with more stuff etc adn then after an hour or so walking off and leaving it. It drives me wild, can't stan the pointlessness of it or the way he thiks it wwill get tidied up behind him. Do they grow out of it? He is 5.5

DS is a den maker too. He's just turned 6. His dens appear to be made of every cushion/pillow/blanket in the house.

They do grow out of it :)

They move on to other 'stuff'

dear god............also he is very belligerent at times, is this part of coming up and away form toddlerdom and finding his own way a bit? i.e. trying out different personas an d behaviours?

Secreting pants in every conceivable nook and cranny around her bedroom, rather than walking the six paces to the laundry basket.

Untidy bedrooms at the end of each day. In fact right this second I am steeling myself to go and start the bed time routine.

Dd - her ability to go from 0 - 100 on the temper tantrum, screaming at top of lungs scale within three seconds.

Ds - picking his nose. Honestly when he does it in public my glare makes an expression of sheer panic flicker across his face.

killjoy! it is fun to make dens when you are a kid. Doesn't matter if it is pointless (to you), do you never tidy or redecorate your home?

Foot jiggling
Tickling me
socks down the side of the bed
Playing with his phlegm

I probably drive him crazy too

Watching with interest,

Dd is 5 and ties everything together with string (furniture, toys, her brother...) I spend an amazing amount of time untangling things.

DD - untidiness and hoarding. Like her Grandma
DS - Having to be active nearly all the time

We had the string thing. I find a lot of it hard to fcope with as I am probably a bit of a control freak, but I do just grit my teeth and hope it is a phase, adn I know it will be.

On the ohter hand, DD wouild watch tv all day if I let her and we have a constant battle gettign her to do anything els, so i am a bit grateful that he can occupy himself productively

foot tapping and toe twiddling .... jeez that is infuriating

Whiiiiiining.

Hi there
We are going to pop this into behaviour
Thanks
M Towers

Ds (almost 5) - not listening, drives me round the twist. I say 'put your shoes on' approximately 25638 times every morning. Also, being shy but that's not his fault and his sllllloooooow eating.

Dd (14m) - vomiting everywhere at the drop of a hat. Seriously, someone she doesn't like the look of talks to her = vomit, doesn't get her own way = vomit, tiny piece of food touches her tonsils = vomit and so on and I'm not talking about posseting I'm talking about full on fountains of puke.

Love them though.

The answer is 'no' regardless of the question

Answering back.
Rudeness.
Fighting with their siblings.
Wiping snot on their bedroom walls.