What do your children do when they want to PROTEST?

[roisin]

When ds2 thinks he has been unjustly treated late in the evening, he sets up his bed and goes to sleep instantly ... on the stairs!!!

On the large square where the stairs turn the corner iyswim. But even so it must be very uncomfortable, and I have no idea why he thinks its a sensible way to protest!

I don't know about sensible but it's very funny!!!

sounds like a fairly acceptable way to protest TBH. My DS used to bang his head off the wall in rage. Prefer your DS's approach!

He's 8 btw

OK, so DS had stopped headbanging by 8. But they all find their own way of dealing with being cross, sleeping on stairs sounds ok to me. Maybe he's chosen that as his hidy hole? Perhaps you need to find a primary teacher with a secondary aged DC and exchange notes?! You're so pragmatic when advisng us about our teenagers, but it's different when it's your own, isn't it? (intended sincerely, not sarcastically as it might have sounded)

Bloody Hell, i'd be in 7th Heaven if dd,3,
decided that she would like to sleep anywhere other than the family bed

We don't mind her sleeping in with us but a bed to ourselves allnight would be a luxury.

Dd whose 3 now has a Fab way of telling us if she's not happy.
She screams and shouts and yells at the top of her voice till other half&I can take it no longer and shut the stair gate to the living room (with her in living room) and retrat to the bedroom/kitchen till she's done shouting.

She is a bloody wonderful child,and also not a shouty,horrid child 99% of the time but when she protests, everyone in the street knows about it.

Oh I think that's marvellous - like a sit-in - and so QUIET.

Mine protest LOUDLY and at length. The protest usually contains lines such as 'That's not faiiir' or sometimes, and more tiringly, 'Can we just talk that through again because you said blah but yesterday you said blab and now you're not doing what you said'

on and on and on.

that sounds fantastic and so quiet.

Ds is 2.8 most protests begin by screaming, shouting, throwing himself on the floor or at the person he's protesting against, banging doors, throwing/breaking things. At the end we have mumbling under the breath.

Falling asleep on the stairs sounds like heaven

My 2yo DS spits out anything he's eating on the floor - so it's best not rile him when his mouth's full. Also when angry, he will take anything he's offered (toy/food/etc) and throw it on the floor in the most stroppy, diva-esque, drama queen manner imaginable... it's very hard to keep a straight face.

pretty much the same as armadillo's dc.
ds1 is 2.

Dya think he could teach my 8 yr old (and 10 yr old for that matter) to do this?

pleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase.

lol

ds lies flat face down on the floor, silently, face in hands

we just walk around/step over him until he's gotten over it.

he is nearly 3

Son (14): ignores me and quietly and sweetly does his own thing. Ignores me when I try to engage him in conversation re said behaviour. Ignores me when I start talking at him about said behaviour. Ignores me when...you get the picture.

Daughter 1 (12): Argues. Then reasons. Finds reasoning no longer works after arguing and tries tears. Tears do not work, so she stomps off instead. Forgets about whole thing v quickly and ends up doing it anyway, but in bad grace.

Daughter 2 (10): Says "Well, I'm not going to do it." I says: "C, do you like pudding? (or any other suitable potential nice thing)." She says: "Yes, but I'm still not doing it." I say: "Ok, as you see fit, C." She usually does whatever it was on the sly anyway.

DD1 (10) argues. Then sulks. Then comes and tells me she loves me.

DD2 (7) slams doors. Says she hates me and wants to live with her best friends who has a much nicer Mummy. Then she puts on Queen really loud in her bedroom and dances until she feels better.

DD3 (5) hits me. Then trashes her room.

dd1 walks off with the weight of the world on her shoulders, fetches her crayons, then ten minutes later you find large sheets of paper adorned with primary coloured depictions of dd1 weeping, draped wherever in the house you're likely to go.

dd2, to my eternal shame, phones dh.

My dd 6 does the wandering and muttering to herself. She completely changes whatever has just happened in her head and then will retell the 'new' story to the first person she can find who'll listen.
It's a good job it's usually my mother or I'm sure social services would have come knocking by now!