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would your 7 year old ...

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festiveface · 23/03/2006 22:43

do something as stupid as spray your best perfume all over the bathroom (was making a trap mum)
or whilst cutting and pasting paper/card at school decide to cut a whacking great hole out the front of his jumper! ???

is he abnormal??

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festiveface · 23/03/2006 23:15

just read that other thread about leaving kids home alone....never. I can only presume some 7 year olds must be far far more sensible

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Hattie05 · 23/03/2006 23:16

I don't have a 7yr old. But i found cutting my school jumpers up fun as a teenager I've turned out alright though!

essbee · 23/03/2006 23:16

Oh my ds would do those and more. Then again it has been recognised that my ds isn't 'normal' now....

ma2cra · 23/03/2006 23:18

7 year old wouldn't.................

9 year old might!

singersgirl · 23/03/2006 23:47

DS1 might - he's 7. He stuck scissors into a friend's airbed just to see what happened. He had a very uncomfortable night's sleep afterwards.

tigermoth · 24/03/2006 00:06

my 7 year old would do both things - I call him captain chaos! He's a great fiddler, very into tipping things out, taking things apart, cutting, glueing, spraying. The perfume thing in particular is common.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 24/03/2006 00:16

I wouldnt say he was abnormal at all.

I remember doing odd things with bathroom toiletries in an experimental fashion (me and my older brother covered ourselves in talc once to pretend to my mum and dad we were ghosts - they didnt find it funny)

My middle brother used to flush toiletries or hide underwear if he was peeved at my mum.

I also cut a huge chunk of my hair off at the crown once whilst "experimenting".

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festiveface · 24/03/2006 10:10

thats all reassuring

ds1 would have never done anything like that so i think thats why it seems a bit odd with ds2

dh is convinced ds2 is a raving nutter!

made ds2 buy himself a new jumper from school offce this morning with a fiver from his own money box.....good idea?? or mean mummy??

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beetroot · 24/03/2006 10:12

mine would not. but am sure it is not adbnormal.

NannyL · 24/03/2006 10:14

sounds like a good idea FF... guess he wont be cutting a whole in this one!!!

Flamesparrow · 24/03/2006 10:15

I would have done that! The jumper would have been an accident (would have been cutting out on top of it or something), and I distinctly remember using my friend's mum's expensive moisturiser and perfume to make a potion

Oh, and a bit older... when I was 12 we got jelly all over the carpet (don't ask how - sleepover!), and we decided that hoovering it was the way to go - they had to buy a new hoover

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festiveface · 24/03/2006 10:18

i remember my mum actually allowing us to use stuff in the bathroom to make a 'potion' now i know she was a raving nutter

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beetroot · 24/03/2006 10:19

oh my kids do that FF.

beetroot · 24/03/2006 10:19

but not my expensive stuff!!!!

NannyL · 24/03/2006 10:24

i remember making "potions" as well... but we were allowed to do it...

typically it would contain.. a bit of every flavour bubble bath we owned.... same for shower gel / shampoo / conditioner and tooth paste!

maybe some washing up liQ too

serenity · 24/03/2006 10:38

I used to try to make 'perfume' at that age with rose petals and water (never worked, unless you were Fungus the Bogeyman)

I also managed (over a great length of time) to replaster our balcony using a mixture of water and talcum powder. Every Avon talc in the shape of a little girl whose head screwed off, for many birthdays and christmases got used up this way...

Also covered myself top to toe in my mums rollon deoderant after a bath (crackly!)

mumeeee · 24/03/2006 11:03

Sems firly normal to me. DD2 cut her football shirt uop when she was 12. She got it stuck on her and thought she.d just cut the sleeves off to make it easier to get off! didn't want to disturb us! She has also tried to cut her hair at 14 and neede to be taken to hairdressers to have it sorted out.

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