Silly talk and farty armpits (!) from 8 y/o son : sexy willy, etc

[100KitKats]

Please advise. My son sprouts gibberish and silly stuff quite regularly: sexy-willy/poohy-bot/smelly bot. It is not directed at anyone in particular - he just sprouts it a lot of the time because it amuses him. He also habitually making farting noises under his armpits! He only does it around people he knows. He says that many of his friends do this stuff too. Its getting really tedious, esp over half term. This stuff started since he went into year 3.

It has got to the point where it is really annoying and tedious especially if I am trying to settle him to read, sleep, wash, get out, go to bed, homework, etc! It takes a while to settle him to do any sensible thing. I see it as an annoying rather than seriously unacceptable so I'm stumped about how to apply the appropriate disipline that fits the behaviour without it being too harsh. But is is affecting home study because it wears me down. I give him warnings and then small sanctions/time out but these don't work anymore, he is too cheeky and irrepressable now. Any advice please.

Buy him Captain Underpants and tell him to read it in his bedroom. He'll be thrilled.

Isn't he just being male?

Yes. Nasty isn't it?

.. We got one of those puckered mouths disapproving looks last year when ds and his best friend decided to shout BOGEYS at the top of their voices whilt i was waiting at a pedrestrian crossing in the car

He loves horrid henry books and calvin and hobbes comic books. He is currently reading through the horrible histories magazines too.

Its a pitty that you get disapprovng looks. While its not the best behavior kids are just kids. That sort of thing always brings a smile to my face

Am ROFLMAO at Mhami and awens ds's

And afraid to admit that I do what Greensleeves does lol.

Greeny i'm dreading this stage because I know I will just find it impossible not to laugh - as i did quite inappropriately and loudly when a friends' 4-y-o DS came to our party and called me a "poo-poo-head". Probably undid months of their good work trying to rise above it.

100kitkats I think the most effective response is seeming bored out of your mind by it, and if that doesn't work, real sanctions eg if you can do your homework properly in x time without any rudeness you'll get a reward / sticker towards a reward etc, if you don't manage it, then remove a treat, computer time or whatever, and tell him he has to learn not to do it because it's unpleasant for other people, even if it's funny for him.

That's my plan - as I said I know I'll actually just crease up.

I find it funny occasionally. But if I'm trying to move fast it's not funny at all. Most of you are quite lighthearted about it and I used to be, but believe me it gets tedious quickly with an 8 year old. Ignoring it is one option but it doesn't work. I've also snipped 10 minute chunks off his playstation time until he misses a day on it completely but it just makes him sad for one day and then back to normal.

Well I've got sympathy with kitkats. Kids will be kids but I don't see why I have to listen to ds's and their poo poo head drivel day in and day out. Is boring and annoying. Go do it elsewhere I say.

po-face

But kitkats do you need to punish him for it? Am not suggesting that, oh no. Is perfectly normal, you just tell him not to talk like that around you.

snowleopard you really won't crease up, I promise you. Isn't very funny at all.

snowleopard - fart, wedgie, poo-head, wee-breath.

Are you still on your chair?

snow leopard.. it is funny actually.. Usually thery say it at the most in opportune moment and you are expecting it. I have to look away sometimes when trying to be firm..

It is not like ds is proper naughty, he doesnt hit kick and is not being malicous.. just a bit mischeivous

Obv my ds must do it with 'style' then.

Well at least he was sad about missing out, so eventually it might sink in that he can get what he wants by not doing it.

Give him alternatives? Tell him you are bored rigid by poo jokes and farty arm prowess, you'd like to see him make an owl noise with his cupped hands, play a blade of grass, touch his nose with his tongue etc (I'm sure there are more) and he's not allowed to say poo until he can? Or double-bluff - he's only allowed to communicate with you in rude words, no non-rude words are allowed. If he uses non-rude words, eg "can I have some juice" you won't hear them. That might put him off.

I have no idea if these will work.

awen? Really? Okay massive sense of humour failure here then. You'll accept it's not WITTY is it?

Oooh just seen those posts! I did laugh actually. I realise it's not so funny when it's 200 times an hour. Well maybe not.

My sister once made my mum spit out all her tea by saying "dog breath".

sometimes he is very witty, alot of the time he is just 7 and doing spontanous things and sometimes they are very funny. Not looking at him for adult amusement value. He is 7 so therefore tells 7 year old jokes.. not adult ones. I find it refreshingly funny and innocent.

Hmmm. Is just me probably. I just find it tedious, but then I grew up with three brothers so I've really exhausted the isn't poo funny thing. Am positively Victorian.
The Science Museum knew what they were doing when they had that exhibition all about poo and bogeys and nasty things. Captured the 8-11 boys market perfectly.

OK here's another idea. He has to go away and WRITE DOWN the 100 rudest, silliest poo-head / wedgie-breath type things he can think of. You then have to read it in front of him without laughing (if he's imaginatie he might be able to come up with some that make you laugh). If you laugh, you lose and have to pay a reward. If you don't, he loses and must stop saying these things for 1 week (make him agree first). Then repeat.

a hundred times. Is the exhibition still on? Think ds would love it.

Now my ds's are seriously funny, in fact ds2 has gorgeous comic timing. But honestly, I can't name a time when the poo, wedgie humour played any part in their funniness, well not for me anyway. Also I find reciting Spongebob episodes tedious, that's another one I tell them I don't need to hear. Is healthy I think. Can only indulge them so far.

snowleopard is being fantastically inventive, but why can't you just tell him to stop and keep it for his mates. What's wrong with that?