What is your 4-year-olds MOST annoying behaviour?

[imaginaryfriend]

I'm just asking because dd is approaching 4 and up until 3.5 or so was a real dream of a girl with very little in the way of, ahem, 'challenging' behaviour.

Now we have unreasonable tempers, rages, control freak behaviour and perhaps the most annoying for me, being ignored.

... and ... when will it end and peace be restored to our home ...

The fact that I seem to have genius dts. After all they know everything and every answer I give is met with a withering "NO mummy its...(give answer they deem correct here)!"

Must be great to have so much knowledge at the age of 4 1/2.

I get that too. It's almost like a nervous tick 'no it's not!'

My ds eats REALLY LOUDLY! That annoys me coz I tell him constantly to eat with his mouth closed....

.... oh and if he's being cheeky and I butt in saying "Stop talking to me like that!" He'll interrupt and say "Let me finish Mummy, I was talking"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrr.

Blimey, they're all the same aren't they? I get that whithering Margaret Thatcher 'Can you let me finish what I was saying mum?' if I interrupt.

Dd doesn't however eat with an open mouth. or a closed one. She generally just prefers not to.

ds crab walks terribly

in our 10 minute walk to school, I must trip over him 3 or 4 times

crab walks?

crab walks - rather than walking straight ahead, he walks across the pavement (side to side)

so he walks right next to me most of the way, sometimes holding my hand but if he doesn't concentrate, he steps over my feet and trips me up

it's very minor in the big scheme of things but it happens every time we leave the house (and we walk virtually everywhere!)

foxinsocks - I've a crabwalker, blooming annoying isn't it? you just keep tripping over them all the time.

My ds latest annoyance for me is having to wrestle with him on a sunny morning putting on his sun cream before school.

My DS1 is a power ranger, zoid, karate fighting super pain in the ass who can win the prize for saying the same thing over and over again....

Does being called 'poo-poo face' and the like bug anybody else?

Ds not yet 4 but we get that and 'smelly bum' lots of the time!

Plus has started saying ' you dont like me anymore' in a loud voice when out in public places!

DS 3 1/2 fav word - Why? a million times a day. Also constantly calling his sisters Smellypooheads.

DD 4 1/2 - Fairly angelic, was a pain this time last year, so hoping her brother follows suit.

General screaming/moaning/whinging/tantrumming/stressing when things don't go her way. she's nearly 5 and i have given up hope it's a toddler phase she'll grow out of, now i realise it's a long term character trait.

Yes, poo-poo everything ("who let the dogs out? poo, poo pooo-poo")

Imperiousness

dd only 2.5 and she regularly calls her brother and sister 'poohead', which as you can imagine tends to start a chain reaction of name calling and general unpleasantness - usually ending in tears.

why questions (why is that tractor there; why is it a long way to wherever) that have no answer - drives me nuts.

I tell them tey are not why questions - some other question yes, but not why.

They all do it 3.5 year old twins and nearly 5 year old too.

my dds don't really do "why" questions. 6yo too dreamy to notice things and 4yo too busy telling everyone how the world should be to ask why.

Saying "me hate you!" at the slightest thing not going his way.
Continual and obsessive searching on the internet for batman/superman/sonic the blasted long-haired unfeasible hedgehog. Does help with his spelling though! When he starts school he will be an expert typist, but only certain not-terribly-useful words.

dd wants to be carried 'piggy back' to school every morning because she's 'soooooooooo tired' accompanied by perfect fake yawn.

the sentence 'you do it'

'not now I'm busy' wtf???

and also a poo-poo fan... everthing is poo-poo this and poo-poo that

and last but not least the word 'silly' applied to any possible and impossible situations

My ds is almost and it has got to be fingers in the mouth. I thought they out grew that by 3! It drives me insane!

Oh yes al of this sounds familiar, esp the Why questions with no answers. My ds (4.2) also says things over and over and overt again, and says them very loudly. Talks constantly, sometimes a a load of gobblidegook he just does not stop. He runs every wear, steps on my toes and does the maony baby voice thing alot and has taken to calling me Mama (said like a 2 year old)

I get the 'I'm not your friend anymore' remark and he's quite partial to a bit of door slamming. And if he say's 'go upstairs and get my bunny' and I say 'no go and get it yourself' we get Kevin type whinges of it's not fair, you never get anything for me......

Bless !!

That should say almost 5.

Mine talks all day, every day, without a break. He forces me to engage with him too.
He actually says lovely things, but just too many of them so often I miss the loveliness as I'm too busy digging deep and trying to remember what I was about to start cooking for dinner.

and ignoring the why questions does not work - they just keep repating them. aarrgggghhhhhhhhhh