My son is so flamboyant. I wonder if I should encourage him to tone it down?

All very good points! I don' know what kind of a knock this kid would have to take to send him off his pedestol. I am starting to think I have the next David Bowie or Anthony Keidas or someone on my hands. That's the thing with this kid, he wins awards and is good at so many things. I think his classmates find him insufferable;-)

The next stage, lol!

His path seems pretty clear!
Enjoy the insufferable boy that he is!
I'm sure that you will make a better descision than I could ever make about him, you know him much, much more than I! lol
It sounds like he is the light and focus of your life. Susan

He has a brother who is often in his shadow. HIs little brother adores him but can rarely get a word in edgewise. I would say my older son's shoes are hard to fill in and follow for the little guy. When the whole band thing came up, I suggested the younger siblings roadie for them and they all thought it was a brillinat plan.

What a good parent!!!
It sounds like your harder job will be your younger son.
It will be hard to keep him from falling under the shadow of his much more gregarious older brother.
What a diverse family you have.
A sign of good parenting is the personnalities differences of the children. Most parent want the ideal child, have a picture of what that should be and force thier ideas on to their children.
It sounds like you have learned to put that picture away and encourage them to be who they are meant to be.
Great Job! Susan

That is a really great way to look at it. You made my day, thanks for the comment!

The little guy definately needs to be put forth rather than lost in the shuffle his brother creates. For the timebeing, he is glad to follw, but that may change one of these days and I wonder how the older borther will take it if it does?

Like all brothers who crave the spot light, he will be jealous as h*ll. lol

I'm glad I could make your day. Susan

Thank you for best response.
I really enjoyed our exchanges.
When ever I would log on I looked for "new response from woodpigeon". Susan

You probably have a fairly clear eye then, since you aren't up to your eyeballs in the parenting madness.

Can you imagine what it'd be like living with a young David Bowie, or Iggy Pop or someone like that? He is much more over the top than most of his friends. He loves performing, and gets giddy with each new project. It certainly keps things exciting!

Wizzy, his flamboyant side probably is desirable to him and maybe whoever his groupies are, but living under the same roof with him can get a bit trying. Can you imagine living with Prince, or Axel Rose, or Liza Minelli? Combine the three and you get this character. God help me and preserve us as we go through his teenaged years! I think we are in for a wild ride!

Yes, he is popular and likable. The bloom has blossomed:-)

When you get tired of his rattling, just stuff a sock into his mouth.:P

Unless he is looking at his own reflection in the mirror I doubt he would even notice!

He is not the least shy or nervous of performing. That is somethng that is really good about the school they attend, they get them up and doing public speaking when they are too young to be worried about it, so none of tem seem to be worried about it.

This young man of mine is something else, and as you say, he certainly keeps things interesting fot the rest of us!

Legend in his OWN mind, I love it! I think he is good and he is a legend to himself, but holy moly, dealing with it around the clock can be something else. I catch him checking himself in the kettle reflection. I have to remid him drama is over, w're not on stage right now...iy yi yi!

I think he is going to make a brilliant Adam Ant. He will also be playing Jonas, a monk, and he got the part because he can pull off a wicked Scottish accent. I forget who the other character is, but I am sure he will tell me all about it;-) He has no, or very little sense of shame so he is a natural performer.

I have been embarassing him since the day he was born, so I assume he got any and all sense of shame out of his system. Now, he is getting even!

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You're right, it is far from boring! He is curently designing the band's logo and has big plans for tshirts. Of course, he is also a talented artist, so we are off on yet another tangent!

I guess it is very true, at this age many of his peers don't have the same confidence, although there is hot competition amongst his mates, they are a competitive bunch. I think they are always trying to out do one another and are a very driven group. Mine, however, has such a flair and sense of drama that he injects into EVERYTHING. I swear, he could turn brushing his teeth into a broadway play (or so he thinks).

Who knows what the future will have in store!

I would keel over in shock if he walked in in some sort of Eminem persona. No, he is more Steve Tyler, and any weapon related assault wuld be on our ear drums rather than withh gang or gun violence.

He's a pip, all right:-)

Seems like the consensus is to let him have at it and take an asprin when ge gets too far over the top?