8 year olds

[SheenaPunkRocker]

I have a few questions regarding 8 year olds I'm hoping someone can help me with. My son (8) spends time at his dads and they have teenage sons living there and my ds seems to think he's now 18 and not 8.

My questions are:

Do 8 year olds still wear pyjamas?
Do 8 year olds get to stay up to watch Big Brother?
Do 8 year olds talk on msn to their friends?

I'm sure I'll think of some more later.

Not all answers relate to my 7 (nearly 8) year old.

1. PJ's Yes
2. No TV after 9pm. BB before 9pm not for last few weeks when Jade went crazy.
3. msn : Mine no, but some of my frinds with 8 yr olds yes.

Ok, I have a 7 1/2 year old - does that count?

1. - yes to pj's
2. - no, has seen it once or twice when woken from a bad dream, had to turn it off as language bad.
3. - wouldn't know what msn was, emails, but only grandparents and me to tell me that she loved me!

However, she is the oldest in this house, not the youngest. Ask me again in 4 years time when ds is 8

8 year old DD,

1 - Yes
2 - No
3 - speaks to family on MSN

1. Yes

2.No 3.No

Yes to PJ's
NOOOOO WAY to Big Brother
NOOOOO WAY TO MSN

ditto ds (8 in four months) objects greatly to being forced to watch grown up TV anyway (one of his complaints about our current nanny). I don't think he'd like msn because of the reading, but it's not something I've even thought about suggesting - who would he message anyway? He's not very keen on jammies at the moment so he quite often wears one of my old t-shirts (although not when anyone outside of the immediate family can see him )

I have an 8 year old ds:

Do 8 year olds still wear pyjamas? NO
Do 8 year olds get to stay up to watch Big Brother? NO
Do 8 year olds talk on msn to their friends? NO

Bugger

Meant YES, he does wear pajamas!
And doesn't even know what BB is! He's in bed at 8 with light off by 8.30!

Hello pageturner!!

Where have you beeeeeeeeeeeeen....... and how did your interview thingy go?

Are you free on Feb 17th, evening? See exeter thread for details!

1. Yes
2. No,no, a thousand times no....
3. No, though he does meet up with his friends on Club Penguin

Yes
NO
NO

My only just 9 year old doesn't wear pj's, he gets very hot & sweaty at night.
Only sees a bit of BB, in the morning if his 12year old sister is watching the edited highlights or lowlifes as we call it.
He talks to family on msn

Yes
No
No

1 yes
2 sometimes on a Friday but not generally
3 no

yes - bottoms only
no
no

and he's not quite 8 yet

yes, i dont want to see your scuddy gruds TYVM! have some decorum - put shorts on at least

only on friday and only to 10pm

only for an hour after you have washed up after tea. or no MSN. and you should tell him that you will setit up so you can record what is being discussed. no swearing and proper spelling only.

Do 8 year olds still wear pyjamas? YES
Do 8 year olds get to stay up to watch Big Brother? NFW
Do 8 year olds talk on msn to their friends? DITTO, THE PC IS MINE, ALL MINE

My ds is 9

For my 9 yo dsd -

Yes
Yes
Yes

I don't agree with the last two though.

My DS is nearly 10 but thinking back to when he was 8 (same answer as now).

Do 8 year olds still wear pyjamas? NO
Do 8 year olds get to stay up to watch Big Brother? NO
Do 8 year olds talk on msn to their friends? NO

Yes my eight year old wears pyjamas (or occasionally a nighty). What would be the alternative then? Is wearing pjs something a person growns out of?? Because I haven't..!

Big Brother, no, wouldn't let her stay up to specifically watch it.. but she might catch a bit if she happened to be up at 9pm, at the weekend maybe. But she has usually been asleep an hour by then.

MSN, she has used it in my presence talking to RL friends or family, but we don't have it anymore so no.

My ds is 8, he hates pyjamas always has done but I can get him to put them on 50 % of the time.
Thank goodness we're in germany so Big Brother free zone!
No to MSN. When in the UK last time I was amazed to see loads of 9 year olds had their own website or page on the internet, and when my niece wanted to do one (including uploading photos) her mother read the rules and you had to be 12 or 13 so she wouldn't let her but all her friends had one already, they were all chatting in MSN too

My dd is 8.5

YES to pj's
NO to Big Brother
Did used to MSN friends, but it was getting out of hand, with other children constantly phoning her to go on it, so have removed it from the computer.

ok here goes....puts bullet proofs on now lol

my ds wears pjs when he feels like it,
watches BB and loves it.....
and he has free internet access which i find great as he has just got in touch (with my help) with his fathers brother and wife so he can now have a paternal family member to relate to.

DS1 (9 in a few weeks)

PJs - yes, now he has some that fit. If not then t-shirt and boxers

BB - not at night (8pm bedtime) but has seen enough of it at weekends that it's his ambition (definitely not enocouraged by me or DH I must add!)

MSN - we don't have it