So, DD2 has been in character as....a parrot....for three weeks, and I can't hear 1 more 'Pretty Polly', I just can't.

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Admittedly, she's been hysterically funny at times, but she's back at school on Monday, she reckons school uniforms make rubbish feathers, she is using "Parrots do/don't like that" as a blanket excuse for all manner of behaviour, and heaven help us if she caws at the teacher the way she did at some poor woman in Tesco yesterday.

How do I kill off this alter ego? Can I set an imaginary cat on her?

She's bloody-minded enough to just keep going, even in school. Does this sort of thing come up in disclosure checks? "Nice woman, but seems to be raising her child as a parrot".

It's funny, but getting not so, IYKWIM......help.....

My dd was a pencil for about 6 months when she was 4!

Oh God........

Give her a cuttlefish and some bird seed for breakfast in the morning and see how amusing she finds it

my DS was a chimp

There are precedents whereby I might have to live with this till MAY!!!

my ds1 was peter pan.his nursery teacher refused to call him peter so he got in lots of trouble.

then he was an oinky (pig)

He is 7 and wakes up every day and asks "What shall I be today mummy?" I suggest a litle boy and he tell me not to be silly!!

ROFL, washer, thought of that one, but am alarmed lest she sees it as an invitation to crap on the floor....

Chimp would be worse, admittedly!

can you put a cloth over her cage when you need a few minutes' peace??

oh blimey, ds turns 4 in a week, sh*teburgers!

choosyfloosy !!!fantastic idea

Good excuse to lock her in a cage though huh? Go on you ARE tempted.......

You're all as bad as she is.

put her in a cage. .

Did you know that parrots have the inteligence of a 5 year old child?

pretty polly

You are the devil.

Anyway, if she is a well trained parrot, she will crap on the sand paper rather than the floor

and if she should be trained to sit in one place, i.e. on her perch, so as not to destroy your furniture,

She is not a well trained parrot.

perhaps you could sell her to the local pirates, lol.

maybe she was a parrot in a previous life.

I do feel for you really . I'm sure it is just a short phase

lol

DS has been a frog recently. He hops around saying "Libbit, libbit"

And then he makes me be a train. "Go choo choo mummy. Say Choo choo"

She has a perch. She made it from kitchen roll tubes taped together.

I am facilitating this madness. How do you convinve a five year old they're human?

I think my parrot has more intelligence than DH! Last week he was taunting charlie (parrot) by saying 'I got no ears' over and over - this week Charlie has been saying 'I got ears', 'I got ears' LOL

Offer her chocolate/sweets...tell her parrots die/get very poorly if they eat chocolate, whereas little girls don't