"Boisterous" toddlers - how do they turn out?

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Can I have your stories of what your DC turned out like if they were very boisterous and loud when little?

My DS3 is the sweetest, calmest thing with me, but grandparents and childminder are clearly fed up with him. Also hints that he's silly and immature for his age. He's always been towards the back of the curve for speaking, clapping and the cerebral things, but is firmly ON the curve.

Could just do with some stories rather than focusing on their negativity.

I think it depends a lot on what you mean by 'boisterous' .

The fact you say the both his Grandparents and his Childminder "are clearly fed up with him" - and keeping in mind that his CM is a professional who has chosen to work with small people his age, and presumably has a fair bit of experience of other people his age, suggests that you might have some rose tinted glasses on.

If you are talking generally about toddlers / pre-schoolers who are full of energy, then they tend to evolve into school age children who are full of energy.
How that energy gets channelled or directed tends to be down to the care they receive - most of which will usually be from parents.

Thanks, @Kite22 - it does look like that! Grandparents have a low tolerance for noise and lose interest a bit after the baby phase and childminder is getting fed up of "noisy boys" at the minute. I do think he's average - a bit less snatching than the others, but big on shouty ninja moves and stomping like dinosaurs. Tries to initiate play fighting at any opportunity.

So it sounds like that high energy might stay! Will have a think about "channelling". Not sure what that means at this age though!

'Channelling' is lots of opportunities for physical play at this age, I think. My toddler is not massively high-energy for her age, and it's still not fun for anyone if she doesn't get enough active play. The childminder ought to be able to sort that herself, particularly if she's got a couple of high-energy ones at the moment, but perhaps he can walk/scoot part or all of the way to/from her house? And perhaps time with the grandparents will be easier if he's had some time at the park/on his scooter/at softplay/swimming/etc. first?

We do also talk about 'inside voices' and do silly 'quiet yells' (actually quite hard to yell, shriek, or squeal quietly) and things like that to help with the noise levels.

My ds was very boisterous as a toddler, very high energy, constantly needed entertaining or he would be pulling stuff apart to see how it worked etc.

It was exhausting.

As he got older he found good ways to channel his high energy, did a lot of sports, and we pretty much sailed through his teen years, he is now 20, has a very physical job, his own house, and is an absolute delight of a young man.

My advice would be to help him find ways to channel his energies, lots of trips to the park, finding sporty clubs that cater for his age group, they have football clubs for that age around here so there may be similar in your area, and coffee for you, lots and lots of coffee.

My DD was super- energetic and noisy as a toddler. Stayed like that as she got older, but we channeled it into a lot of sports. By her teens she was playing sport every day. She is now in her 30's, is a very energetic teacher and still plays a lot of sports !