I know I am going to get told off for not being grateful for having a healthy lively child but my dd is still driving me mad why can;t she sit still, watch tv without dancing or walk without twirling or skipping.

[twinsetandpearls]

I have posted about this before but need to offload or I will shout at her, she is 7.

She just cannot sit still, she has just been talking to me whilst jumping on and off the back of the sofa which resulted in her smashing some photo frames.

She can't sit down of an evening she spends the whole night making up dance routines which is cute but dp and I have hours of her jumping about and shouting step 2, 3, 4, stretch 2,3 4.

At night when we send her to bed she is either singing, dancing or designing something which she does until she falls asleep. I have been upstairs countless time to find her asleep on the floor where she has fallen mid dance.

When we walk into town she is forever twirling, jumping practising dance steps which again is cute but in the town where we live the paths are narrow and I am always having to apologise as she bangs into people.

I don't know what I hope to acheive from this thread, this will be the third time I have started a thread like this and I always get heckled and told I am ungrateful cow who doesn;t appreciate such a special child.

We do try to encourage her in her interests she loives designing clothes so I take her to shops with a camera and we photograph clothes for inspiration, we makes things togther collect idea from magazines. I have taken her to fashions shows and dp and I spend hours drawing with her. She loves to paint so we take her walking to get rid of some of that energy and will have a stop to paint the view which she loves. She goes horseriding, swimming a few times a week and is about to start dance classes again. She walks with the dog or comes out on her bike with us most days for at least an hour and at weekends much longer.

I just don;t know what to do to keep up with my dd. Does anyone else have a child like this? how do they cope?

Thanks 2 shoes.

My best friend who I've known since school is like this - as a child she did dance evry night, very clever, never still, lovely, but drove her mum up the wall with her excess energy.
Her mum was a sahm, but every holidays she was at all day playschemes, hard to find in the early 80s so they were often across the city. My friend really understands why her mum did this!
If it's any consolation she was and is a fabulous friend to have - I honestly did so many interesting things as a teenager because she was always finding great things to do. We used to go off for the day and have loads of fun - something for you to look forward to?
I set challenges sometimes - ' you have to find 5 things beginning with the letter b' just to get 5 minutes!
Good luck

She is a popular child lucky, she has just started at a new school and has amazed everybody at how quickly she has settled.

I use playschemes in the holidays otherwise I would explode, she tends to go for half days a few days a week

she seems to be around you an awful lot. Are their children roiund about that she could go out and play with? That would be by far the best way to vent her energy.

No children nearby, our road is 100% OAPs we held a halloween party and as a result she has a sleepover planned and a mum offered to take her dancing once a week.

We have gone from living in an area where dd played out all day everyday and had lots of sleepovers to living somewhere where we are all together all the time.

ah! hmmm. move again?

We are going to move again and the lack of children near us is a major factor. We are renting until we sell our house and then we will buy somewhere.

T&P dont feel bad about whinging; ds2 is very like this at 7 (grrrrr) and my annoyance is in no way abated by the act of his two brothers SN. It just is annoying, full stop.

End of half term is always worst and there are only 2 ways to deal: 1 take yourself away for 5 minutes and a cuppa / magazine read. 2. get the child out of the situation and try and run the energy from them. I take the boys over the green and make them run 50 laps when they do this. Fabulous. Like being an army major without the crap haircut and fatigues.

And dont forget that most essential of aprenting tricks: after a day of annoyance make ure yu spend 5 minutes watching them sleep, when they look like angels. Always ends the day on a good note.

It is not the end of half term she has another week!

o goodness- we only have 1 week!

stock up on chamomile tea and be on the look out for opportuities to remove yourself!

She is going to stay with her stepmum for a week and then has a sleepover planned at ours and then a sleepover at a friends house so the week will fly by.

Not a week, got carried away there but a few days.

PMSl

was about to at a week

I would be ecstatic with a week. She has gone I am mumsnetting and snoozing in bed with the cat whilst catching up with r4. Bliss.