Ds (3.4) is really - REALLY - into crashing his toy cars. Is this just boisterous boys?

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We figured he's having a bit of a testosterone surge at the moment, not least because he's initiating rough-and-tumbles almost constantly, and is having lots of, ahem, erections throughout the day.

So all very healthy male, but blimey the endless crashing of cars! And we have laminate floors, so I've put ear defenders on my Christmas list as it is so noisy. It's all physical and boisterous and crash, bash, biff. And all car games are essentially crashing games. It seems futile - almost wrong - trying to stop it. It's as though ds needs this outlet at the moment - or rather some release for all this physical energy, and it isn't going to be a walk the minute he's dragged me out of bed.

Argh! Am just venting really, and wondering if others' loving, capable-of-being-gentle boys are similarly compelled to obliterate their toy cars in huge pile-ups?!

All Perfectly Normal.

At least he has moved on from lining the cars up Just So

Little boys are like dogs really, need a good run in the fresh air daily to burn off their excess friskiness.

Could you get a trampoline, lob DS out of the door at every opportunity as long as your garden is secure, build in a visit to your local park as often as you can ?

perfectly normal.
DS 3.6 always been a calm child, but he does indulge too.
They need to rough it up a bit.
when gets wired up and can't go out to run around and play, we have a mini tickling/cuddling/wrestling match on the carpet. All good fun.

Thanks for posts. Reassuring. Plenty of rough-and-tumbles go on here, but never quite enough it would seem, at the moment.

Like the trampoline idea. Califright - I'm definitely going to need ear defenders for Christmas then.

Happy crashing and bashing.

these days he got over cars and into animals big time.

Basically it goes like:

-Lion: "Roooaaaaar, I'm gonna eat you"
-Buffallo:"Yeah, right over my dead body!"
-Lion:"you re going to die, roooaaaaarr"
-Buffallo: "You too"

And then full on war.

He doesn't fully understand what he's saying, it's quotes from the lion king or smthg.
It's scarry how boys just switch into that mode. I mean he also does the nurturing thing, cuddling and caring for baby animals, but since he had a book on the food chain from school, he won't snap out of it!!

Perfectly normal and my 6 and 4 year old boys have power rangers as well

When ds was 2ish he used to play "Tar Tash"which involved pushing hotwheels cars down the stairs!