Are all 7 year old boys so annoying?

[PurplePunkPrincess]

I love my ds1 and feel this is a normal phase, but wanted to (hopefully) other mums can relate/agree it's a phase? Please, tell me if I'm wrong.

Ds1 will be 8 in January. He is trying to be funny, and he's just not. Everything is, 'shall we put it on a bum?' Or takes things literal or the wrong way, 'I'm just trying to find the car park' 'well that's just silly, is it a park where the cars can play? And do the cars have to drive up a big road and go to the top of the slide and go down the slide? That would be stupid, maybe the cars can sit on their bums on the slide. Because the cars have bums. And they fart'

Just that kind of thing, over explains things which make no sense. Insists on explaining jokes and what he saw on Cartoon Network.

I'm trying to take an interest in what he is interested in but it's difficult when I have to listen to long explanations of unfunny stories.

Ds1 one ran in just now, 'pops just came in on a balloon and said ooh you're destroying the world! Good show' I smiled but he looked disappointed with my response :(

I have a 9 yr old and a nearly 7 yr old. We watch regular show together sometimes, and it is genuinely funny. What does my head in is the endless descriptions of minecraft!
My advice is listen, smile and nod when necessary, enjoy some things together and make sure you also have things you do alone/with adult friends!
Try and enjoy them, they can be daft and sometimes annoying, but the time will come when he doesn't want to do anything with you, and all you'll get is a grunt. It's a very short time, childhood.

Mine sounds similar he just talks and talks and talks without actually saying anything. I actuallly like Regular Show and Adventure Time so we are ok on that level. I have perfected the smile and nod :-)

Yes, all seven year old boys are annoying.

Smile and nod. You can let him know you don't find the "potty humor" funny, but do so without any emotion.

I may offer to watch some superhero films and Star Wars etc with them to attempt to steer some conversation that way! I can chat to them about that stuff and understand! But yes, nod and smile is in place, hmm, I should really take a better look at these shows on Cartoon Network! :)

Yes, they're all like this. It's very easy humour though, and much preferable to the 'he said, she said' drama of 7 yr old girls. Enjoy it. It won't be long before he's communicating in grunts.

My nephew is 7 and is so annoying that I almost can't stand to be in the same room. That sounds so bad but it's true. I have to grit my teeth and walk off when I just want to shout 'that's not funny grow up argghhh!' I don't know why I feel so much rage towards the mindless nonsense that come out his mouth. Maybe some people tolerate it more than others

My 7yo likes to tell jokes. It's fine if he can remember it properly, but they tend to go along the lines of:
Knock Knock
Who's there
Umm... umm.. Andrew
Andrew who?
Umm... umm. er...Andrew wants you to open the door.

Actually after a few of those it starts being so bad it's funny. He also likes retelling jokes. Several times. To the same person. Usually me. And he expects me to repond each time.

My brother was about that age when he read a book of "naughty children". He picked two ideas up from that which he used for over 10 years:
One was silly responses:
"Where are you?"
"In the toilet?"
"What are you doing?"
"Boiling an egg"

In fact he used to answer "boiling an egg" for all sorts of questions. Drove dm crazy when she was trying to get a sensible answer out of him.
The other was a child who wasn't naughty, but turned out to have problems hearing. "Have you seen the billy goat?" "No, where is the silly goat".
Db thought this was a great way of avoiding questions he didn't want to answer and was definitely still using this method of refusing to answer in his 20s.

And my bil still thinks saying "pants" is sidesplittingly funny. . He's 40 now and still has the humour of a rather silly 6yo. Wish he would learn to act his shoes size at least...

I think a lot are. I remember my brother having a digital watch at about that age and if someone asked what the time was and someone else replied, for instance, "2.30", he'd look at his watch and say "no, it's 2.28 and 20 seconds ACTUALLY". Every. Bloody. Time.

My 9 y/o is just coming out of the other end of all that, he's been reading a joke book and at least now has some actual vaguely amusing real jokes rather than the lame made-up ones. He also has lots of interesting general knowledge gleaned from his kids' encyclopaedia, which is much more fascinating than facts about Pokemon or minecreft.

Try getting him a book of interesting stuff to regurgitate and steer him towards Phineas & Ferb, which is actually really funny and cool, so I'm happy to watch it with him!

Unfortunately 6 yo DSD is now getting to the unfunny bum joke stage, so it seems we will have it for a while longer yet, but it's how they learn about themselves.

FWIW I still remember being told off at nursery for repeating a joke that someone else had made - the teacher sternly said to me "it's only funny the first time". 36 years later I remember how shit I felt, trying to be funny and being rebuffed, so to all parents of annoying DCs, be gentle with them, encourage their good jokes, provide them with some more acceptable material and try to boost their confidence, even if you're cringing inside.

I've got three DS and each one of them went through this stage. I can honestly say I went off them for quite a bit, but always loved them if that makes sense. As one would be coming out of it, another one would just be going into it. My second DS aged 11 is now really good at telling jokes (I bought him a joke book in the end) and I can honestly say I genuinely enjoy his sense of humour now. I need to get him to lend it to his youngest brother though...

Oh dear my 5yo is exactly like this, I see I have a long time to cope with it

Although I did laugh at your examples. It's better than DS and his best friend's sentences at the moment which is "bum language" where they literally go "Fart fart farty bum bum willy fart bum willy" and hysterical giggling, also accompanied by raspberries, and bum waving in people's general direction.

I think I need to introduce DS to Adventure Time. My friends love it but I haven't seen it.

Too true Miaow, my DP is 35 and still there is nothing funnier than an inappropriately time fart, or whopping his willy out and waiting to see how long it takes me to notice!

Why are willies so hilarious?

My 7 yr old is exactly like this (with Kevin the Teenager phases too). My 9yr old has thankfully come out the other side and is a pleasant boy you can actually chat with these days.

It's trying isn't it!