6 yr old going through an annoying phase

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My son is 6 (almost 7) and lately he has been doing really silly things, things he knows are unacceptable and then telling me about it, we have a chat about it and he apologises then 10 mins later he's doing it again! For example I'll tell him to go clean his teeth and then He will say sorry mummy I didn't clean them properly I was messing around. Another example is he will go to bed and I'll have to keep telling him to stop getting out of bed (I can hear him walking around room) then he will come out and say sorry mummy I've been getting out again. It sounds really petty reading it back but it's literally every day all day long doing silly things and then telling me about it. I don't know how to deal with it, I don't want to tell him not to tell me when he does silly things as don't want to make him feel like he can't talk to me, I don't want to keep telling him off but at same time he needs to know this silliness can't continue. I feel like my whole day is spent telling him to stop. Any ideas?

Mine went through this, still does it occasionally at almost 8 years old. Just keep reminding him that he shouldn't be doing that and telling him to stop, no other advice unfortunately.

How about: Thanks for telling me, Johnny. Now what do you think you should do? Let him come up with his own discipline/answer.

Thank u for your advice ladies. I shall try asking him what he thinks he should do. I have threatened to take away his big boy stuff like tv, kindle etc is he continues to act like a baby but is that too harsh? It doesn't seem to be working anyway. So emotionally draining 😞