Nice way to tell your child to get out your face 🤪

[Burntoutandfedup]

Lighthearted!!

so of course it's half term and my 8 year old son is off school. I love him dearly but my god.

he has no much energy and loves to direct said energy into my face, acting a clown 10cm from my face. Every time I'm up and about doing something he's under my feet. Tripping me up, if I leave a room he follows me. I feel like I'm cracking up. He's the oldest of 3 and before anyones says he's seeking attention, he gets plenty of attention. I spent 2 hours with him in his room playing playmobil. It's not that 😂😂

every part of me wants to say "oh my god, get out of my face" 🤯🤯

does anyone else hate their personal space being violated 🤪

this isn't a post for mum shamers btw I'm only joking. I do love him, just feel like putting social distancing markers around myself to get through the day

Suggest hide and seek and then take slightly longer than necessary about finding him?? The only thing I can think of I'm afraid! 😂

Tell him you need peace and space and go amuse himself or play with his siblings.

It is attention seeking behaviour though.

He’s bored.

Personally I use the phrase “go and tidy your room and when it’s done you can have half an hour of kids YouTube”

That usually does the trick

I do get he's bored, unfortunately for all of us we're house bound during half term because his sister has chicken pox. Like I said I'm only joking my irritation is kept inside outwardly I'm fine, it's my internal voice screaming 😂

but I get he's bored, I'm bored too.

Mine is 5 but I say, I can’t see you when you’re that close, take a step back. This also helps to reduce the number of times I am poked in the eye.

Why do you think it’s not okay to say anything? Is he like that with everyone? How is he going to learn to recognize that it’s not always okay and people DO need space?

Oh I do tell him, I don't just allow him to behave that way, and he dosnt do it to everyone just me it seems.

He gets 2 warnings and a consequence if he has to be asked a third time. He just gets over excited. E.g he started singing the theme tune to scooby doo which is fine but then started rising the volume untill he was shouting it, then I said hey that's enough, no one wants to hear you shouting.

he also asks for my attention then moves his mouth and dosnt say anything, I know he's only playing but when you've got 1000 jobs to get down, a baby crying and a toddler rampaging your house, stopping for Tom foolery is not fun 🙃

When were in the house and i want my two (3 and 6) to leave me alone for a moment's peace that usually goes hand in hand with me making a cup of tea so i usually say 'just leave mummy alone while i drink my tea, stay away from hot tea etc' .. they do this and then when ive finished my drink theyre back... that's my general routine and it does me :)

My mum used to bribe my brother. £1 for every 30 mins of peace.

I'll usually set the 2 older ones up with their favourite toys. Set up a bluey world of play sets in my daughters room, and lay out my sons drawing stuff or playmobil stuff out for him in his, then I'll take baby to my room which is in between theirs and sit on my bed for 10 while baby eats her feet or something and just sit there and collect my thoughts. But the mess in my kitchen right now from lunch is calling me so I can't do that right now

That's brilliant 😂

I find the phrase let's tidy up together often gets me some alone time...

I feel for you - 8 year olds (and maybe boys in particular) are the height of silliness.

I do the "see how long you can be quiet for" game, and make it a competition - first one to speak loses. I include silly noises, mouthing words and using sign language as speaking/making a noise. I usually do it in the car. Weirdly I always win 🤣 but sometimes you can get a good 5 minutes or so of peace out of it.

Or set him challenges - does he have Lego? You could do a lucky dip of building ideas and set a timer for 10 minutes and see what he can come up with.

Failing that, day drinking??

You spent 2 hours playing Playmobil? OP, you are a saint. A saint, I tell you.

With DD, I'd give her a big hug and say, "DD, I love you very much, but I need some time on my own. I need you to do X for the next [insert time period]".

It sometimes worked. Sometimes. Mostly, I'd resort to putting a film on.

Where do we vote for "day drinking"?

I’ve come across this thread after just giving my DD a final warning for putting her face in my face! I’m half way through doing an activity with her so it’s not an attention thing but I can’t work out why she keeps doing it when it never ends well

Could you find a holiday camp for him to attend?

We have an absolutely brilliant one local to us and when I looked yesterday there was still some availability this week.

My five year old is generally lovely and independent but she needs activity and fresh air and exercise and if I tried to keep her in for a week it wouldn't be good for either of us!

I tell mine I'm on a break! Not joking ha
I find a book is a good visual prop.

8 is proving to be one of the challenging ages...

2 hours of playmobil?
In one go?
Without wine?

I salute you.

1000% get this I tell nearly-8 year old DD that I need to decompress or that I’m feeling overwhelmed. If she do lets me drink my tea in peace I’ll play a board game with her after-type thing.

I’d pay him to use his energy cleaning the kitchen.