Are all 5 year olds so peculiar?

[BocoBeak]

DD1 used to have social skills, and behave like an actual person. Suddenly, she's part hog, part dog, part alien, part teenager.

She was invited to play with a friend today, so i dropped her off this morning. This girls mother works at the school, is involved in every committee possible, pta rep etc etc. Tidy home, well behaved children, opinions on everybody and their parenting techniques.

I went to pick dd up this afternoon. dd2 climbed on her sofa with shoes on and then spilt water everywhere. I asked dd1 to say thank you for having her. Instead, she began to bark like a puppy. She then squatted down and frog hopped to the front door, ending with putting her bottom in the air and making snorting sounds. I had to physically lift her out of the door, muttering and threatening under my breath. She stayed completely rigid with her bum in the air. I asked her again to say thanks in a breezy / underlying warning sort of way, but instead she gurned and continued barking. I began to sweat. Realised dd would win this battle so quit and went.

She then got home and said she needed time to herself so could i please not bother her for a while! and put a nursery rhyme tape on really loudly!

I don't know what it is. Do 5 year olds transform into these little odd creatures?

She sounds like my kinda gal

We have a five year old next door. He's pretty weird too. He walked into my front room yesterday wearing nothing but a pink rubber ring around his middle.

He then sat down and casually asked me if I had any cake.

rofl....sorry, but I can't help but laugh at the description of your daughter...!
Must say, my nearly 5 year old is becoming , generally, more normal now....still noisy and always on the go and always chatting, but that is just him!
My es, who is now 11, definately did not go through this...!
You must hvae been minorly mortified though, by your daughters behaviour... I think that is where all Kids just cna't help themselfs...they love showing us up....

PMSL at your dd, they always misbehave in front of the perfect family, they just seem to have a sixth sense for it.
Your dd sounds fantastic, don't worry she'll be running the country before you know it

I wish I had been there. And for Desiderata's neighbour. I have taught five year olds, I much prefer the entertaining ones like yours.

Tee Hee !!! She sounds pretty much like my dd1. She frequently makes pig/sheep/cat/octopus(don't go there!) noises and hops like a rabbit, slithers like a snake, makes like a monkey etc. etc. Or she wants to be a fairy princess and behaves like one!! She has a PhD in backchat/foot stamping and stoppy face pulling already - Got only knows what she will be like in 10 years time - I dread it, although hopefully the pig noises will have stopped!!

Glad to hear there are others as peculiar.

This afternoon she has mostly dug for small bones in the vegetable patch. She found 3 small bits, what looked like a mouse pelvis and a couple of thigh bones. She has made a special bone pot in a secret place, with a small reindeer cake decoration and three glass stones. It is treasure, she has to keep it safe as it'll be worth a lot of money and she may sell it all to a museum in a couple of weeks.

that made me laugh

dd is quite potty, in the nicest possible way - she is obsessed with being a dog, and the other day she anmazed with her kind of toughness when she came downstairs with a dead wasp impaled on her comb, saying "I knew you were scared of them, Mummy, so I hit it a few times with the comb, then pushed it onto it properly". Nice

DS is 4 and spent most of the day shouting randomly at us, whenever we asked him to do various inoffensive things such as put on his shoes. He also spent a long time wearing my new headset microphone and wiggling his hips in a vaguely lewd fashion to early Bowie.

Finally he said he was Grinder Man and buried various things in the garden including dp's old mini-disc player

Just your average day, really. Does it get WORSE when they are five? My god.

Hee Hee - does make me feel better that it's not just mine. Isn't it part of our childrens' job to humiliate us?

My ds (4) was recently an orangutan for 3 DAYS. I don't know how he kept it up - crawling everywhere with his hands turned under and everything....

Animal impersonations seem to be quite common then. good. REassuring. DD is often a dog, a dog that tries to give us messages by barking at us and then gets really cross when we don't understand what the barks are supposed to mean.

Franny dd would get on well with your ds, he could bury things and she could dig them up. I'm amazed at her bone collection, it's vile. Other dd aged 2 is convinced these tiny bones are dinosaur bones.

I am not sure if they are worth digging up after Grinder Man has dealt with them

Brilliant thread BocoBeak. You write really well.

If it makes you feel any better, my 4 year old dd (also potentially Oscar-winning performer)regularly sniffs the air like a rabbit and then elaborately washes her 'whiskers' particularly when we are in public lifts or on the metro. She also acts out complicated scenarios where she plays two people at once (usually little girl and a Daddy or naughty dog and dog's mummy)involving very loud and dramatic dialogue between the two characters, usually at supermarket check-out, the bank or most recently (blanches with embarrassment at memory) when visiting the grave of a relative with that deceased relative's family ....