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Is this a normal level of energy for a 2 yo?

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matana · 02/12/2012 13:47

I love my little boy to bits, he's a lovely cheeky, happy little man mostly. But he just does not listen most of the time. He won't walk nicely beside me, holding my hand. He wants run everywhere. He won't sit nicely in a trolley, he wants to walk but when you let him walk he bolts in the opposite direction. He fiddles incessantly, with everything, everywhere we go. When we go into shops he takes everything off the shelves. He won't watch tv for longer than a few minutes, he can't sit still, ever. He has zero attention span unless he's fiddling with something he shouldn't be. Toys interest him only briefly before he moves onto the next thing. I'm finding it so difficult to keep him entertained now it's winter. Is he normal, or do I need to worry? He's affectionate, loving, socially excellent and normal in most other respects.

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LoopsInHoops · 02/12/2012 14:04

Absolutely normal 2 year old behaviour, don't panic!

rhetorician · 02/12/2012 14:12

normal

FeelingGreen · 02/12/2012 14:21

yep, sounds pretty much the same as DS who is also two. I have the same problem in winter we just have to get wrapped up well and go outside twice a day anyway or he'd be climbing the walls!

bonzo77 · 02/12/2012 14:25

You are describing my DS! It had better be normal!

TheEnglishWomanInTheAttic · 02/12/2012 14:33

Yes its normal. 2 year old boys need a long walk every morning regardless of the weather - like collies :)

LaTrucha · 02/12/2012 14:36

May I recommend this and some wellies for said two year old's walks in the rain? We couldn't live without ours. DS is the only person I know who greets the rain as I would a week in Majorca.

Honestly, he never stops.

TheEnglishWomanInTheAttic · 02/12/2012 14:45

LaTrucha all the kids where we live have to have something like that -the equipment list for kindergarten requires mud trousers year round and snow trousers in winter - no bad weather, just bad clothes and all that...

TheEnglishWomanInTheAttic · 02/12/2012 14:47

Oh and reigns if you need to walk near roads to get to a park, obviously

HoldMeCloserTonyDanza · 02/12/2012 15:27

DD is two next month and is exactly like this.

You just have to keep exercising them!

cakesloveme · 02/12/2012 20:22

Oh my gosh you have described my 2 1/2 year old ds!! Ive been panicing recently it is abnormal behaviour but feeling a little more reassured reading the responses above.

I find the not listening really tough and sad that I am being constantly negative with telling him off. Got to learn to pick my battles and as above, we go out to wide open spaces very frequently to let off the excess energy!

I'm hoping that becoming a 3 year old will mean less manic behaviour and better listening......I know I may be deluded but ds2 is due in 7 weeks so I need to clutch to some hope!!!

sleepdodger · 02/12/2012 20:33

Ds is 20mo and like this
I'm constantly that knackered fishwife mother I swore I'd never be

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matana · 03/12/2012 14:43

Thanks for the reassurance everyone! It's just that everyone in my family comments on how full on he is (not in a derogatory way though) because he's so different to my niece who has never really fiddled or dismantled things excessively. She's energetic in her own right and has bolted on numerous occasions, but she is not nearly so gung ho and will sit/ play quietly for longer and behave beautifully at the dinner table. It is all i can do to get DS to allow us to finish our meals when we go out before he's trying to escape. He's still in a high chair because he fidgets so much - otherwise he'd have been out of it several months ago. My family think it's odd that he's still using one, but it's the only way we can keep him at the dinner table. He can't walk anywhere, but instead runs at full pelt from room to room finding it hilarious - until he runs into a door or falls flat on his face. This morning i left him alone downstairs for 5 mins (i know, i know) thinking he was occupied and returned to find he had stuffed a DVD into the player the wrong way around and it would no longer eject, or do anything much. And then there's the shouting, at the top of his voice. He is incapable of doing or saying anything quietly.

Yesterday i took him to soft play in the morning and DH took him for a walk to the shops after his nap and that did help - he wasn't quite as manic as normal in the evening.

Honestly, i love that he is so, ahem, 'spirited' but wouldn't mind if he gave me a breather for just five minutes! Xmas Smile

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