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DS has no nice toys, he destroys everthing.

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waterfalls · 09/07/2006 13:39

We have just bought him a new remote control car this morning, and he has snapped the ariel off, he destroys eveything he has, not in temper, just for the sheer hell of it.

He desroys everything in his bedroom too, just in the last 2 days he has smeared toothpaste all over his wallpaper and pulled down and broke his window blind, he rips his books, he puts dents in the walls, anything battery operated he puts in water, the only thing in the world he takes care of is his matchbox cars, he has been like this from the moment he was mobile, I have tried everything to stop it but nothing works.

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waterfalls · 09/07/2006 13:40

He is 5.5 btw.

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waterfalls · 09/07/2006 13:59

Anyone experience this? how did you solve it?

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Blandmum · 09/07/2006 14:14

I can't offer any specific help. All I can say is that my NT ds (6) is very similar

Cars get broken, parts of games lost, used to play with in the garden, snapped etc. He has a beautiful ship that is missing most of its sails, all the pirates lost in the bottoms of boxes.

I have a 9 year old dd who isn't much better. We can never play a game because all the bits have been used for something else and got lost! It drives me wild.

One year she got @the tooth fairy game' (loada crap btw) for christmas and by boxing day it was broken. This year the same thing happened with 'mousetrap'

If you find a way to stop it, please tell eme!

trinityrhino · 09/07/2006 14:15

what does NT mean???

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waterfalls · 09/07/2006 14:20

neurologically typical

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waterfalls · 09/07/2006 14:20

Thanks martianbishop, nightmare is'nt it?

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Blandmum · 09/07/2006 14:29

total pain in the arse!

It drives me insane, such a waste of money. And then I think, 'Hang on I'm the one that buys them all this stuff'

Mercy · 09/07/2006 15:10

waterfalls, my dd is 5.3 and is like this too (she is NT). The latest scenario involved a pair of scissors; I had given her a an old catalogue so that she could cut out clothes etc. In about 10 minutes she managed to cut a chunk out of her hair, have a few snips at her bedroom curtains, cut her shoelaces etc. She also smears toothpaste all over the bathroom mirror most days, takes little bites out of food in the fridge - I could go on! Yes we have the broken toys adn missing bits too.

I just don't understand her behaviour sometimes because she's mostly pretty sensible. Hope someone can advise us!!

nikkie · 09/07/2006 15:15

My dd2 (NT) is like this but dd1 is the opposite no idea what to do about it though.

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