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[neverdoingitagain]

It did for mine, I'm sure it will for yours.





At least, I hope it does...

[Sasharna]

My DP will be relieved to know that other children do this, too--not just our DS1. I never heard such nonsense while teaching preschool. Maybe they all saved it for their mothers.

Mine has also said, "This is not my life!" ...complete with wavering voice and tear-filled eyes. Last year when I was under the care of a cardiologist, DS' excuse of the moment was, "I can't do that. My heart is going awaaaay!"

They're just experimenting with words and phrases that sound adult to them, I think. This phase is starting to pass now, with my son. He has figured out better excuses that really make sense and he's more able to be reasoned with. If he were still doing it, I'd try some Playful Parenting types of responses. (Like maybe: "This isn't your life? Oh no! We're dreaming! Quick! Let's fall asleep again so we can wake up!")

[sweetmama3]

Originally Posted by herewearetogether

any of them too long?
this,too,shall pass. this,too,shall pass. this,too,shall pass. ...

Not too long, but too little or too big, whatever gets him out of what he doesnt want to do at the time...:
It will pass. I hope.... lol

[Snuzzmom]

Originally Posted by kittyhead

how old is she? my son is almost three, and when i ask him to help me he will sometimes close his hands into fists and say "but mama, i dont have any hands!" no advice, just commiseration.

That's pretty awesome, actually. At least to the mommy who doesn't have to hear it.

[Snuzzmom]

Originally Posted by herewearetogether

i'm just tired of someone being far too long for helping but just the right size for eating icecream. good to know that i'm not alone, though.

BAH!! Hilarious.

Sometimes when I ask him for help, DS will say, "NO! I DIDN'T!" Oh-tay...
I always want to say, "I know you didn't, Freakshow...that's the point!" But I usually just start the cleanup song instead. Which sometimes actually works.

[keilonwy]

My niece was NUTS at three. Like, literally, I thought she might be insane. She would run around doing something wacko, and when it was dangerous, be asked to stop, to which she would stop, tilt her head to the side, point her index finger straight up, and go, "You are just a little hoop?" Clearly it was a statement, but inflection would go up at the end of the sentence. Often, it'd be followed by, "Sweetheart, listen to me. You are just a little stickup." Then while you were standing there blinking, she'd commence whatever it was that you were trying to tell her not to do - but clearly, any opinion you had didn't matter, because of your intrinsic hoop & stickup nature .

At the time, it was just weird and often obnoxious. Now she's 6, and we actually look back on it fondly...and she is wildly creative with words, in a good way. I think it stopped around 4, or 4 1/2.

[Surfacing]

Dd1 does this too. She walks around speaking in her made up language and gets seriously mad if I don't understand what she's saying!!! She has also said to dh, "Dad you are messing up my brain!"

One time when she spoke gibberish to me, I just totally answered back in a fully convincing swing of equal gibberish... with an attitude like, "Finally! Someone who understands me!" That really caught her off guard and we made a big deal about it. I got her to laugh and got her cooperation.

One trick that worked for awhile was to pretend that the box or bag I wanted her to put the toys in was a monster who was hungry. Every time we put a toy in it would chomp chomp chomp and make discussion and sounds.

Yes Mama, it will pass... it's just a phase..... and then she'll move on to something else....

[Mimi]

Originally Posted by Surfacing

Yes Mama, it will pass... it's just a phase..... and then she'll move on to something else....

I'm assuming this is good news?

thanks for the advice!!

[bumblecat]

The boy I take care of through the week is going to be 3 in a few months. His best lately is that things are "too scary" such as when I attempted to get him to eat his luch on the larger, more stable table, instead of the tiny wobbly pedestal table he was trying to eat on - his milk was too scary on the big table. I told him it was too scary for me on the tiny one. He wouldn't accept it on the big one so it went back in the fridge and I told him I would get it for him if it wasn't scary anymore. I'm gonna need to do something with that tiny table...

It's also been too scary to put a sweater on to go outside, or wear his shoes that fit, or eat luch, or pick up a toy he threw, etc.

Also, he will shout and sing loudly all day long happily but half the time if he catches me humming a song to myself or the cat is feeling talkative, he will shush us saying "that's too noisy. I like quiet things." and then carry on shouting narration to whatever he's playing.