Do your boys say things that horrify you.....?

[mumofthreebeauties]

In the last few months my twin boys have come out wth the following either at home or school:

"I'll kill you"
"I don't love you anymore"
I'll cut your mouth out"
"You'll be dead..."
"I'llput a match on it and burn it down" (said on fireworks night)

Are they future axe murderers or arsenists? I worry about what they say.

we have had this thread recently and it seems to be normal

mine dont say this

i have nO idea why ( aprt from my superior parenting) but i think if they are into imaginative m play ( mine arent) they do it more

Hmm my Ds is only nearly 3 so we haven't had any of this yet.

His fave word at the mo is stupid.

I recently heard ds1 (5) mumbling to himself in his room about becoming master of the universe and making a potion to send everyone to sleep and turn his brother into a girl and the cats into wolvesand grandma into an ice cream .....

It's normal I hope.

Yes, DS, who is actually not violent with friends, shares, takes turns, is gentle to small children etc, talks like a non-stop slasher movie. This morning he was being a knight, chopping up a wild boar to eat, hacking off legs, throwing them in the bin, yanking out eyes (would the baby tigers in the wood like them,?), is agaog at the gruesome details of the crucifixion, and when barely three, said to me 'I hope a rocket will come down from space and land on your head and burn you up with it's flames!'. (Because i wouldn't let him open the freezer at will).

I jpined a lunch-time history club at school purely to be able to do a project on hanging, drawing and quartering...and have grown up to behave quite reasonably in public, I think!

Don't worry!

My ds2 is the same. He's 9 and when he gets told off he says the most awful things like "I'm going to get a knife out of the drawer and stab you to death". Terrible to hear but best ignored I think. They are after a reaction and say it only because it sounds so shocking.

ah nutty "stupid" is banned here

Yes, I clampdown on 'stupid' and other name-calling, more than the chainsaw massacre dialogue, tbh.

Well I don't know much about boys but my twin DDs are horrifying me with their talk lately, well one of them is. She talks about spitting on people and headbutting them. It began when she started school back in September so presumably is hearing it from other children in her class. I have told her we don't speak to each other like that and have stopped treats without any effect.
Last night she said something similar and I told her I would be speaking to her teacher about it this morning and she got terribly upset, begging me not to tell her teacher. I told her she had one more chance and it seems to be working so far.

I do sympathise with you, it's hard to hear them picking up all these horrid phrases/sayings.

Stupid is banned here too Cod, but try telling Ds that.

Thanks for that.

School called mein because one of them was saying this type of thing at school. They even said they would be taking a note to give to an ed psych if necessary. I think they should ignore it. We tell them that it's not nice to talk like that.

School have me concerned that they are psychologically scarred.

sigh - this sort of talk is also pretty familiar in our household.

I am not planning on taking my children to an ed psych though.

No, it seems a tad over the top to me.

Do I refuse to let them call in a psych ed or go with it.

All their friends say the same things and I know he can be a bit silly but he was only 5 in August!

Thanks for the words of encouragement.I thought my boys were the only ones using these words.

I would consider us to be good parents instilling in our children respect and caring for others

personally Id refuse the ed psych.

I take comfort from the fact that dx and I are both relatively normal and rather anti-war.