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.

[keeptakingthetablets]

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.....

keeptakingthetablets pmsl at perch

And do you?

Say choo choo?

Be careful, we started out giving her Ritz crackers, look where we ended up.

Thank you for your suggestion, WannaBe, I shall scour the glens for a pirate and get back to you on that one

Have you been tempted to re-enact the dead parrot sketch, yet?

Stern voice: 'dd, you are an ex-parrot'.

send her down to us.im in cornwall-lots of pirates.

The temptation to pick her up by the ankles and tap her head against a hard surface is ever-present, yes

I could combine the parrot sketch with washers advice - "You have eaten chocolate, you have ceased to exist..."

Moljam, do not tease me.

She'd only be about £25 recorded delivery.

I shall ponder awhile.

My dd was a flamingo as well. And a roll of wall paper and a lemur. And on one memorable occasion, a bsket of washing that needed to be pegged on the line. She is 12 now, and is usually herself - except whe she's a dragon (white with sparkles and pure blue flame). She can only be a dragon when she can persuade her little brother to be one too, so that she can maintain the illusion that she is playing with him. Even though it it patently the other way round!

whos a pretty boy then...whos a pretty boy then!

we had a parrot who used to swear(previos owners taught it) and sing football songs(previous owners!).so annoying.

A lemur!

Overacheiver!

To date there have been no swears, and no 'Pieces of Eight' comments. And no football songs.

ah, but is she, perhaps pining for the fjords?

oops should have been a comma after 'perhaps'.

lemurs are easy compared to rolls of wallpaper!

I love that child's imagination a roll of wallpaper! My DS2 managed to be a sheepdog for about 3 months and DD is an intractable fairy, but a roll of wallpaper, that's bloody genius

Oh dear, I do find myself going Choo choo

It seemed like a good idea at the time - you know, encouraging his imagination but it is akin to the ritz crackers, isn't it?

He is 2, so has plenty of time to grow out of it, doesn't he? I now have visions of taking him to school on my hands and knees going "Choo choo" all the way.

What have I started?

Mine are parrot mad - made a parrot cake for ds2's birthday last year (Ihave to say it was brilliant . The two older ones take a cuddly parrot to bed

Is she a Norweigan Blue?

Over-rated, I used to go along with ds's game of being a train as we were walking down the street. V. embarrassing!

Update:

Me : "DD2, it's time to get up. Come on, you must get up and get dressed. Come ON, we're late as it is. Will you PLEASE get up, get dressed, get into the car"

DD2 : (Muffled, submerged in duvet) "Caw. I'll fly and meet you there. Zzzzzz."

I think cornwall, or indeed the fjords, beckon.

Or a cage!

The dogs are in the garden, their pen is free........and with all the snow, it'd feel like Norway

lol