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

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imaginaryfriend · 20/06/2006 21:36

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 ...

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singersgirl · 21/06/2006 22:45

I know - it made up for not being the best mummy in the world on so many occasions...

singersgirl · 21/06/2006 22:46

DS1 does that still, Imaginaryfriend, and he's nearly 8. All that secret squirrel stuff which I inadvertently ruin.

Northerner · 21/06/2006 22:50

Lol at these. They are all the same aren't they. Forgot the but but but but Mummy, Mummy, Mummy thing and the 'I scratched my leg' incessantly thing untill someone acknowledges him! Lol.

mumsnetpariah · 21/06/2006 22:50

Taking an eternity to eat her meals
Telling extremely unfunny jokes with no apparent punch line - I'm required to laugh
The 'why' questions
Recently lost the ability to play creatively on her own - her default position is to ask for 'kids tv'

TwinsetandPearls · 21/06/2006 22:57

Eternal whinging
"I was talking first..."
Repeatedly asking for the same thing
Whenever she does something naughty she says "I didn't know that " she usually did know
"I am tired" when asked to pick anything up

TwinsetandPearls · 21/06/2006 22:58

mumsnetpariah dd does the unfunny joke thinga nd then proceeds to tell the same joke over and over again with one word changed.

mumsnetpariah · 21/06/2006 23:06

Mind numbing isn't it!

TwinsetandPearls · 21/06/2006 23:13

I always try and laugh the first time as she thinks she is very funny and I don't want to crush her confidence but it soon becomes through gritted teeth.

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imaginaryfriend · 22/06/2006 11:15

Yes we get the joke thing too. Then as I stand there waiting for the punchline that never comes she says 'you're SUPPOSED to laugh'. Then strops off. Again.

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Bananaknickers · 22/06/2006 11:22

mine knows better than me all the time.Will ask a question and tell me the answer I have given her is wrong.She talks really loud in public places with her embarrasing questions.
She says things like you don't love me do you when she dosn't get her own way and I ruined her life when she wouldn't let her stay to dinner at nursey.l.o.l I am so looking forward to her being a teenager.This has all happened when she hit 4.We adidn't even have the terible twos

singersgirl · 22/06/2006 11:38

Oh, I get the "I'm too tired" whine when asked to tidy up or do anything remotely helpful.

trefusis · 22/06/2006 11:49

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sandyballs · 22/06/2006 11:50

The endless questions and questions and questions ..... I'm not a walking encyclopaedia, I don't know everything.

And their obsession with plasters. What is that all about? They need a plaster for the tiniest, winciest piece of dry skin they've found on their leg, no blood in sight. Or when they do actually graze a knee and see bloody, they scream and scream the place down until that little bit of plaster is on their knee then miraculously all the pain goes and peace is restored. Amazing.

My two are 5, so shouldn't really post on this thread, but hey ho, not much difference really.

welshmum · 22/06/2006 11:55

Wailing at the drop of a hat
Talking in a baby voice - drives me loopy

tissy · 22/06/2006 11:55

talking with a silly nasal slurred voice, so I can't understand her

Saying "I've got a sore tummy" when she doesn't want to eat her dinner, then five minutes later feeling better and wanting pudding (No!)

Bananaknickers · 22/06/2006 12:26

Sandyballs we have the plaster thing too

Northerner · 22/06/2006 12:30

Insects. My ds howls is a fly/tiny spider/ant comes any where near him for it to be removed.

lol at the wailing for tiny graze, my ds does this too.

And eating potato one day but hating it the next. Grrr.

Roobie · 22/06/2006 12:34

What is it with the loud talking? I wondered whether dd was a bit deaf but I now realise that it must just be an age thing (and also the fact that she has no problem earwigging whispered conversations I'm having with dh!)

Morgan · 22/06/2006 12:52

Oh my god i can relate to so many of these with my 4 yr old ds. Him and his friends are obsessed with "poo poo " and "weewee" drives me mad. The plaster thing too. Also everything having to be a secret and then getting so mad if it goes wrong.

littlerach · 22/06/2006 13:16

Just to reassure you al......

Doesn't get any better when they reach 5.

In fact, they get WORSE when they start school.
Because they do all this, plus they learn new Irritaing Things To say and Do to Mummy.

Thomcat · 22/06/2006 13:20

Saying 'mummy' 95 times over and over, even though I'm looking straight at her and saying 'yes'.

Doing as weirrd clicky tounge growl thing when she is tired or spaced out in the back ofthe car. Stops when you ask her to but only for a few seconds then it resumes.

She also grates her teeth as an alternative to this nise.

Saying 'Noooooo' to everything.

I say 'would you like a yoghurt' and she says 'noooo', then a mopment later she says 'mummy yoghurt please'!

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imaginaryfriend · 22/06/2006 13:46

I get 'mummy?' 'yes?' 'know what mum?' 'no, what?' 'mummy' 'yes?' 'know what mum?' 'no, what?' and on and on. With no point. AAAGGGHHHHHH!!

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mummyhill · 22/06/2006 13:50

We were told at the weekend by DD that she is an expert in seagulls and everything!!

mummyhill · 22/06/2006 19:39

All mentioned below and a poorly back every time you ask her to pick something up. Dh made a point of telling her that mummy had a poorly back and needed help to try and get her to put her toys away bless him now all we get is no I got a poorly back when you ask her to do something.

mummyhill · 22/06/2006 19:49

Sitting on/smacking/pulling at/shouting at her 9 month old brother cause she doesn't want him any more cause mummy loves him more cause she spends more time doing stuff for him.