Does this sound like your average six year old. If so how do you cope?

[twinsetandpearls]

She is an only child which I think think is a factor. She does not stop talking or singing. She is always dancing or jumping about. She is always trying to do flips over the couch. If we walk somewhere she can't just walk she has to skip or swing or jump on things. When she is on the phone she can't sit and talk she has to circle the room climbing on and off furniture. She is very accident prone. She is very popular with other kids but it amazes me as she can be mean and argumentative.

Twinset
I can imagine that you find it very tiring, I am like that with DD sometimes. At the moment she is watching TV but jumping up and down on the couch at the same time. She keeps telling me what is happening on the TV.

The one thing that quietens DD down is painting, she goes to a painting class once a week and she loves it.

Is there anything that your DD loves to do?

I hope you did not take the link to mean that I think that she has ADHS, I meant quite the opposite. That we are quick to label children nowadays, that years ago we would have said "She is a livewire".

There are lots of things sho likes to do but she does not do them on her own. She also loves to paint, we often sit out in the garden and paint. She also likes fashion and has a sketch book that she fills with designs some of which we make up. She also goes horse riding. Her other interest is maths and science and she will spend hours doing sums with dp or doing experiments or playing with her electronics kit. I have just managed to get her to read a book on her own but she is happier if I read with her.

We've got a day with no plans. I suggested a few things to dd that she might like to do - craft/art ideas. She's moaned and says she 'doesn't want to', and has then started complaining/whining. Think it might be a long day.

twinset, is she allowed on computer? My two dss have just discovered bin weevils (haven't got a link but google it and should come up). Hard to explain but you create a weevil character and you move around the 'bin' playing games, chatting to other weevils, buying things for your weevil nest! I don't advocate hours of computer but it's such fun and has filled many a difficult half-hour or so for my oh-so boisterous boys!

just wanted to say don't be hard on yourself Twinset and don't feel guilty for feeling the way you do about it

my 5yr old dd (also only child) never stops talking/singing/dancing either ....

however conscious we are of being very blessed to have a healthy happy child ...we are only human ....and it is very tiring to contend with day in day out ...at the end of the day I sometimes feel as if I have been sucked dry of every bit of energy, patience and stamina that I ever possessed

... and if that sounds pathetic with just one child then I hold my hands up and admit to being pathetic ... feeling guilty about it (or being made to feel guilty about it) doesn't help

another vote for several ring-fenced, timed (with kitchen-timer) set activities per day when you give dd full-beam attention, in between encourage her to play by herself(within reason obviously) ....

installing trampolines flush to the ground is good from safety angle btw ....

Thanks countingthegreyhairs. I will try the timer, I could see that working actually.

As soon as I get our internet up and running I will check out those games littlemissworry.