You're going to ^love^ what DS1 said to his ex-girlfriend today ...

[NotQuiteCockney]

He told her: "I don't love you, and I don't want to marry you. Maybe we can live together?"

He also discussed, with someone else, whether he should send her an email telling her he doesn't love her.

He's 5.

Should I set up a topic for him in here now, just to get ready?

In the light of the other thread expressing concern about a Valentine's disco for this age group, who else on here finds this sort of daft lurve chat is ALL driven by classroom/playground stuff, and neither initiated nor actively encouraged at home? (although dh and I do a lot of listening and trying not to laugh)
I am genuinely interested in how boy-girl friendships are part of the fabric of school social life, even at seven. I just had not expected it. The talk is all very innocent, the games are all chase-related with no kissing, but there is real affection.

Hmm, I do think DS1's interest in marriage isn't just from school. It also stems from attending his aunt's wedding, when he was nearly-three. (Oh, and from some books he'd been reading, that involved a girlfriend.) He got interested in having a wedding and a girlfriend after that.

But yeah, they do get into the lovey-dovey thing quite early. His eight-year-old 'girlfriend' was chasing him around with a distinctly dazed look in her eyes, and they did end up holding hands ...

I remember having crushes when I was 4 and 5, and every year after that, so I don't find it all that weird.

wonderful thread

major lol at wedding 'theme'!!

Loving this thread! Glad to see your 5 yr old is keeping his options open NQC!

My DS is 7 & came home recently saying he was going to "sex" someone. I surpressed the immmediate urge to shout "Mother of God, you can't say that & don't ever let your Grandmother here you say anything like it" and instead in my patient, nouties, "I've read parenting books" voice said "oh, & what does that mean?". Turned out he meant a kiss & a hug & I was able to have a calm "parenting book" chat about how saying "sex you" was a weird thing to say.
But can't help agreeing Marina. As far as I can tell, this kind of thing seems to be playground driven!!

We had that conversation, with that bizarre phrase, a short while ago too bugsy. I felt hugely relieved that the protagonists were Frank Lampard and Elen Rives, not ds or a classmate. Interestingly, the conversation hinged on whether F & E were neglectful parents by putting their baby in front of a Teletubbies video while the sexing took place. The information came from a Usual Suspect in ds' class
I just thanked the Lord that dh, who gets rather flustered about this sort of thing, was not at home at the time.

Actually NQC, I remember the name and more besides of a lovely boy I was great friends with in Reception. He moved away at the end of the year, and I still have the High Sixties kitsch little china fawn he gave me. So yes, not weird, in that sense, but the intensity has still taken me aback.

Presumably, once you've had this conversation, you can then ask them to go do something else while you sex your DH/DP?

LOL NQC. I didn't put down the most cringy bit of my conversation with DS, which was that having explained a little bit about what sex really was. DS then pipes up: "So that is what you were doing when you were all nudey in the bed with Mr X" (who just for the record was a boyfriend of 10 months & not just some casual fling - wouldn't want anyone to think I was corrupting my children).
Cringe, cringe, cringe. At which point in my "parenting book" voice I suggested it was time for chocolate biscuits!!!!!!!

Argh bugsy, that must have been grisly

Oh poor bugsy. Glad my two are only little yet. I have time to work up to this.