Quick question, is this normal 7 year old behaviour?

[MrsSnape]

I have that much going on with my DS right now that half the time I don't know if what he's doing is normal or another one to add to the list of oddities.

He just can't stop "messing" around. I bought them a pumpkin to carve and told him we'd do it on halloween (tonight obv) so 10 minutes later I go in the kitchen to find it covered in holes ... he'd stabbed it all over with the pumpkin carver.

I bought him some "web and spiders" to decorate their bedrooms a few weeks ago. DS1 left his alone in the drawer like I said. DS2 rove his out of the packet and has completely ruined it so it was no good tonight.

We got a pinata, they played with it properly for 5 minutes and then DS started chucking the stick around. I lost it with him and sent him to bed. He's just such hard work

Yes, it's normal 7 year old 'boyness'.

scuse my ignorance whats a pinata?

my son is the same too (and thats the one without autism)

he's a boy... he's seven...

i have two boys so sympathy, i know how tough it can be...

what is the age gap?

are they v different / v similar / v competitive??

does he get lots of positive attention?

my dd would be like this if left to her own devices and was feeling mischevous

there is 2 years between them, DS1 is the quiet, sensitive one...ds1 is...well, he's 'lively'.

A pinata is a thing that they smash up to get the sweets etc out. They have to hit it with a stick and try and make it break.

pinatas are notorious for bringing out erm... enthusiasm.
DS2 had one at his party last year, and one of his friends got so excited that the reinforced plastic stick broke completely in two.

my dd also 7 can be like this.

pmsl HumpreyCushion

21 months between mine.... i tnink its hard having same sex sibs quite close together... they have to compete for attention / to differentiate themselves that mixed sex sibs or ones with a bigger gap dont....

if ds1 has cornered the market in being "good" then maybe on one level ds2 thinks / feels he should be the difficult one....

there's certasinly an element of that between my two.....