6 year old silly noises

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6 year old boy (will be 7 in Feb) keeps making silly noises especially when on his ipad and towards his sibling.

I noticed him hissing at others at softplay and a random boy who walked past him at the zoo!

I dont have any concerns in any other areas/ he is getting on well at school.

Are the noises typical behaviours, I am getting really frustrated and embarrassed by it and hope he isnt doing it in the school playground 😟

I wouldn't allow him the Ipad. He doesn't need it

I did remove it for 3 days as a consequence.

its just the noises at others! Like toddler behaviour

Have you asked him why he is doing it? E.g. my daughter sometimes pretends she is a particular animal and will only 'speak' as that animal and will snarl or hiss at people. I tell her that it is fine to play but sometimes she needs to be in 'human mode'. This seems to work with her.

6 year olds make silly noises sometimes. If it's inappropriate then tell him and give him a consequence, but at the end of the day, he's a young child.

He's 6 it will be a 'phase'!

he will deny it or when I challenged him about doing it to the random boy he said he was scared which I know is a fib, my child is very confident

Thanks all, perhaps I need to stop being so harsh on him/getting myself so annoyed and let him be little.

i just worry sometimes!

I knew a boy who did this but he had tourettes. Probably just a 6 year old being a bit silly if there's no other things that worry you about his behaviour

This. Have him play with toys and other children and develop his brain and maturity, not just gawp at a screen.

6 year olds are nuts. They do daft things, they're only little.

However, what's he watching on the iPad? So much of it is utter brain rot. I notice children who get to watch nonsense on their iPads are also the ones who talk the most random annoying gibberish.

I'd get rid of the iPad altogether. A 6 year old doesn't need a tablet.

he is playing age appropriate games on it. Its an amazon fire, he likes to play the number games/

He absolutely does not just gawp at a screen.

we are an active family, he has lots of friends, goes to school and has after school activities.

he likes to play age appropriate games which we monitor.

Children make silly noises, that's not unusual behaviour surely? They hum and click their tongues and tap on desks and fidget and go la la la and skibbidi this Ohio that. I'm 39 years old and absent-mindedly go meow meow meow, or start humming the tune to It's a Small World sometimes!

Thank you! This is the reality check I needed!!

I think it is quite unusual at 6.

OP both my DS have had phases of this. I suspect both are ND.

Can you expand why you think this/have you had interventions which suggest this?

My 6 year old does this too. He's not ND as far as we know but he can be very silly and gets more so if he's been playing on his tablet or Switch. We've had to ban YouTube entirely because it makes his behaviour appalling

I swear I put a post on here with the same thing when my daughter was that age. She would not stop making silly noises, squeakes and screams and beat boxing, and repeating the same phrase over and over. Happy to report she's a perfectly normal 10 year old, but does still like the sound of her own voice. She was really shy at school so I think at home she just got all the noises out!

@boomdeboom my 6 yo DS does exactly this, it seems to happen when he’s nervous. It’s odd because he’s never done it before. We are starting assessments for ND but I would think if “this” fit with ND it would have been present earlier?

@wonderingmumtonight I think as children get older, they become more aware of situations that might make them anxious, including socially. I’ve definitely noticed this with both my ND DC. My youngest used to walk into nursery and pre school pretty normally. Now in Year 1 he is clearly anxious/nervous every morning he goes straight into the classroom (strangely he doesn’t have the same anxieties for breakfast club, perhaps it’s a transition thing!) and will silly things.

ADHD or just immature?

just turned 7 year old always has been and continues to be so silly, energetic, loud and makes silly noises. Im at a loss is this a sign of hyperactive ADHD or a young immature boy?

ive raised with school but no concerns yet. I guess it not impacting his day to day more mine! Forever telling him to calm down and stop being silly. I worry his friends will start to find him 'too much' no idea where to turn to! Any referrals would be dismissed based on my concerns!

he has just been diagnosed as having an overactive bladder and I read theres a link between this and ADHD

any help would be greatly appreciated

But s your default at home screen? Getting rid of screens at home either huge improvement on all of mine with their behaviour.

DS was big on silly noises at that age. Turns out he has adhd, although not saying it's the case for your DS necessarily.

Have you been quite upfront with school, and asked outright what his behaviour is like/that you think he might have ADHD/is immature for his age?

I find schools can be very cagey and it’s frustrating when parents want to know what their child is really like in that setting, but they have probably had so many bad experiences of parents getting angry at them that they feel they have to be cagey!

I would be blunt and ask outright. If they still insist he’s an angel, no issues whatsoever and doesn’t stand out from his peers, then I would probably assume immature unless he’s still doing it in secondary school! My (ADHD) 10 year old has grown out of a lot of the silly behaviours in front of his school peers at least. NOT at home or with friends/family.