Living with the thought police

[emkana]

When I speak on the phone to someone - my dd's want to know who it is.
When there's somebody at the door - they want to know who it is and what they want.
When I gasp at opening a particularly high bill - they want to know why I'm gasping.
When I chuckle to myself while reading something - they want to know what's funny.
When I'm writing something - they want to know what I'm writing.
When I'm sitting on a bus and I turn around to look at something I noticed outside - they want to know what I'm looking at.

It's worse than living with my parents!

Lol

I get why why why why why why why.

And.............. if you refuse to tell them, when they get to 4, they tell you that you are rude and horror nasty.

My 2.6 yr old doesnt say too much but her favourite is What you doing mummy? every 5 minutes. all day long.

We're on the 'Why?' stage too ....she says it to absolutely everything - it's soooo infuriating!

Be nice to go to the loo on my own

LOL Grumpy - mine does that too! And flushes for me after telling me im a good girl for doing ... whatever it was! Must stop it too......

Have all but given up trying to have conversations with DH as DD's always pick up on one word and instigate a full interrogation!

i just the the questions i cant answer, ds (age 8) comes out with some corkers. take last week for example.

ds "what day is it?"
me "tuesday"
ds "so its not thursday yet?"
me "no"
ds "so why is it tuesday?"

what is the answer to that exactly? ended up replying crossly "because it is"..and i hate saying that.

How about "Because it was Monday yesterday"

I try to turn the questions round as much as possible, eg "why do you think it's Tuesday?" You get some great answers then!

Questions like ...
"When will they be here?"
drive me insane because the conversation goes something like this:
"In about an hour"
"An hour? Is that long?"
"Well, not really ..."
"But how long is it?"
"It is an hour"
"How long is an hour?"
"It is sixty minutes"
"Is that long?"
"What?"
"Sixty minutes?"
"It is an hour!"
"But how long is sixty minutes?"
"3600 seconds, if you must know!"
"Whoa ... that is long mummy ..."
"Yes ... it is long ... now run along and play!"
Silence ........................
.................................
................................
"Mummy ... "
"Hmmm?"
"How long is a second?"

AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!