What is the one thing your child/ren do/es that really just.....

@ljcapps (1925)
United States
May 30, 2007 5:43pm CST
irritates the heck out of you? LOL i have a four year old little boy, who's incredibly smart. He learns new things every day and it's amazing some of the things he comes up with, or draws. He's just an amazing little boy. But he NEVER stops talking. He even talks in his sleep. Seriously. We've been teaching him manners his whole life, and he's so funny, because he says please, and thank you, and excuse me, etc etc. But he interrupts people. Constantly. Or yells, HEY at strangers when he wants to talk to them. So we taught him, Excuse me, for when he wants someone's attention. And now, he just says, Excuse me, louder and louder, until they look at him and then he rambles on about something, or other. LOL I love the boy, but he NEVER stops talking. I realize i should enjoy it b/c when he's a teenager, he'll probably not want to talk to me or my wife at all. But...geez. If he's being quiet, i know he's up to no good. What do your kids do that just drives you up the wall? What do i have to look forward to? :)
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@brokentia (10389)
• United States
31 May 07
Well, constant talking is good for starters. But try having several of them talking all at once and loudly! Dinner sounds like a cafeteria! Playing the quiet game is the highlight of the day! Or just telling them that enough is enough and they must eat...and if I hear them talking, that means they are not eating because I do not allow them to talk with their mouths full. But how about tattle telling. Sure, I don't want one child picking on another child...but at the same time, come on! they have to learn to problem solve on their own at some point. One of my children likes to just be in trouble I think. He starts fights. He thinks he knows every thing so he always has to have the last word...even if he is wrong. LOL Will just constantly do something that has be calling his name. He even likes to bark to make the dogs bark or scream and cry when no one has hurt him because he wants to get someone into trouble because he was arguing with him. Seriously...how many times do I have to send him to his room. He might as well not come out. But then...he also screams like a 2 year old when I do send him to his room. Please please...I would like a sound proof room in my house. Attitudes! My child should no take a tongue in cheek, push his or her jaw sideways at me, stomp off, tap a foot, hand on hip, roll the eyes, huff and puff, growl, or anything else disrespectful at me. I am mom. That is it. My word in this house is law! LOL Why? Because I said so and that is good enough. I have not endured all that I have in my life and then carried and gave birth...without medication for them...just to face a attitude. Oh no! They know better because Mom doesn't play that! ha ha Dare I go on? LOL Treasure the age you have! It is wonderful!!! ha ha
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@brokentia (10389)
• United States
31 May 07
Of course I am paying attention. LOL But I do think I have had one to lick the TV. I even have had one that has pee'd in the freezer...don't ask. I still do not understand why. ha ha My kids like to wave at strangers in the car and I only get upset when they start to make faces. ha ha Taking all of them to the grocery store I will never do again now that I have a teenager that can babysit some. ha ha Kids are great! But they are also exhausting!!! LOL
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@ljcapps (1925)
• United States
31 May 07
Oh no, pee'd in the freezer? LOL i wouldn't have wanted to be that kid when you found it!! I remember the first time my wife took our son to the store alone, just one kid mind you, and she growled at me when she got home. never again. Now that he's older its a little easier....it's just now his arms are a little longer!! Now i'm not sure that she wants to take me AND the boy grocery shopping. Between the two of us there's no telling what might end up in the cart!!
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@ljcapps (1925)
• United States
31 May 07
LOL oh, man. You could probably sell tickets to the show at your house and make some money. My beautiful little four year old, sweet baby boy, has already perfected the "i hate you" look, for when he gets sent to his room. he, too, must have the last word. If you tell him to go take a little sip of water before bed, he'll say, no daddy, it's a small sip. And he'll repeat it until you acknowledge him. over and over and over again. and he, too, must be told over and over and over again to stop doing something. don't sit on the dog. don't lick the tv, (haha, that's to see if you're paying attention) stop yelling at the people in the car next to us.... I couldn't imagine doing it with as many as you've got. you should get mother of the year award at least. Sometimes our nerves are pulled sharp enough with just one child, i can't imagine doing it with, 7, right?
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• United States
30 May 07
I don't have kids yet (thank Jesus!) but here's something my niece did to me today. She wanted candy or chocolate, and I say not now, after dinner. She asks again "pretty pleaseeee" I say no, not right now. What does she do? She makes up a song about it! "Naaaaana doeeesn't le-e-e-e-et me-e-e-e-e-e-e have any caaaandy-y-y-y-y-y-y she says IIIII must Waaaai-i-i-i-i-i-t" and then when I tell her to stop it, she goes "Oh Nana but I'm just singing!" =| =| I was seriously not amused. Lol!
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@ljcapps (1925)
• United States
30 May 07
LOL i COMPLETELY understand. That would have driven me crazy. Daemon doesn't make up songs yet, thank goodness, but he'll ask for something, and if we say no, he immediately asks for it again. And when he gets another resounding no, he's say, but why not? oh geez. I love him. I really do. But he's at that stage that they never grow out of, where he wants to be independent, and do what he wants to do, until he wants you to do something for him. LOL did that make sense to you? We recently broke him of saying "I can't." That drove both of us nuts. so at least now he's being honest and saying, "I don't want to." LOL
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• United States
30 May 07
Lmao! Kids can be such a trip sometimes. I looked in your profile and your little tyke is adorable! He totally looks like those little fireballs that never keep quiet, or the type that will yell "HI!" at me in the supermarket line or something..haha! Kids man, I love my niece to bits, but that doesn't stop me from being SO glad when that little sucker goes home. LOL.
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@ljcapps (1925)
• United States
31 May 07
LOL you have pegged him perfectly. He will talk to ANYONE. If you're in line behind us? be prepared for 4 year old conversation. If you're the checkout person? conversation. If you're WALKING past us. be prepared for conversation. He will talk to anyone, whether they want to talk to him or not. And thank you! he is a complete cutie. Which is probably why so many people are willing to talk to him. It normally starts out, HEY! my name is Daemon, and i'm four years old and this is my mommy and daddy and we have a cat named Tika and a dog named Daisy, at which point he might pause for breath and let you interject something. LOL everytime my mother in law watches him, she's so happy to see us when it's time to pick him up. She always looks exhausted when he's done with them!!
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• United States
31 May 07
Haha! I can totally relate with you. I have a 4 year old boy who doesn't stop talking. What bothers me even more though is the power struggle. He thinks he's in charge. He argues about everything including his age and eye color! LOL He gets under his big brother's skin who's almost 20. We love him to pieces but it's a very trying age. Hehe! When he does something cute or shows his love for one of us, it makes it all worth it. I can't tell you what you have to look forward to as they all have their own little personalities, but I can say there's always gonna be some sort of phase to deal with. Good luck! LOL
• United States
1 Jun 07
ROTF My son is a Sponge Bob freak! Tarter sauce! Too funny! In fact, this whole thread is funny. It's hard to be a serious in charge kind of parent when they do these off the wall things. Sometimes you just gotta leave the room so you're not caught laughing about the things they shouldn't be doing/saying. They're such characters. LOL
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@ljcapps (1925)
• United States
31 May 07
LOL my son is exactly the same way. My wife was joking about it,and said, he'd argue if i told him the sky was blue, and he looked straight at her and said, MOMMY, it's not blue, it's green. LOL at which point we all had to go outside and say, what color again? And the things that pops out of his mouth. We (mostly) stopped cursing when he was old enough to repeat us, but he loves spongebob. A couple of months ago, he dropped something, or did something and went TARTAR SAUCE. LOL can't yell at him for that, can we? :)
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@ozangel82 (753)
• Australia
31 May 07
i hate when they purposly defy you. like you tell them not to do something so they do it right in front of you with a look on their face that says ' and what are you gonna do about it?'. Kids love to see how far they can push us, but then are always shocked at being punished for it, i mean you were told not to do it so of course there are going to be consequences!
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@ljcapps (1925)
• United States
31 May 07
Exactly!! I couldn't have put it better. My son does that all the time. Actually, just yesterday my son got in trouble for that. he's got a tv/dvd and Vsmile in his room. Well, he only gets to play on it, or watch a movie for certain amounts of time, and we don't even have cable. Well, he knows how to switch out the A/V cables in the back (my god he's only four!!), my wife told him, leave the cables alone, and leave the TV off. So he moseyed back to his room, and a minute or two later she followed him, and there he was, switching out the cables. Oh, she was mad. We're in the process of buying a house, and packing everything up, so she said, that's it. And packed the vsmile and dvd player right there in front of him. Maybe he'll learn.
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@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
31 May 07
My son constantly interrupts us when we are talking even though I have tried teaching him to either wait until we have finished talking or saying "excuse me" or something to that affect. The one thing that sort of annoys me is when he doesn't knock before he enters the bedroom, bathroom, or any room. He just barges in without realising who is in there and its quite funny really but very embarrasing with your enjoying your time with your husband LOL Sometimes we like to lie on our bed and just chat about our day and he always pops his head in every couple of minutes to see what we are doing...too funny my son!
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@ljcapps (1925)
• United States
31 May 07
LOL my son does the SAME THING. The bathroom is not sacred territory. We finally got him out of the habit of just barging in, and now it's the mommy and daddy sanctuary. We'll go in there just to have a conversation sometimes and it's hilarious b/c we'll both be sitting on the edge of the tub, talking. We've got a friend that's part of the family, that daemon just thinks walks on water. And he'll be talking to poor robert, and rob will head to the bathroom and daemon will get up and follow right behind him, and looks so surprised when he gets a door shut in his face! i'm so glad other people have kids like mine!!
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@stacyv81 (5903)
• United States
31 May 07
Oh my goodness, my 3 year old is EXACTLY the same, very bright, constantly learning and surprising us with things he knows, but he talks constantly too. He was taught manners since he could talk, and he does the exact say thing with people he wants to talk to. Maybe because their brain is going so fast, and they are so excited about sharing things they learn. He does the same thing though, it is kind of relieving to hear another kid doing the same thing, also, quite funny at the same time how alike they seem to be. =)
@ljcapps (1925)
• United States
31 May 07
LOL that's hilarious. And you're right, it is relieving to hear that yours isn't the only kid who does that. And I count myself lucky b/c there's times that i see other kids his age that are just hellions. If the worst i have to deal with is a child who doesn't stop talking (ever) then i think that's something i can deal with!! We never had to deal with biting, or kicking or anything like from Daycare. He's just a little...over energetic, and his mouth follows right along with the rest of him!
@ljcapps (1925)
• United States
31 May 07
He's still talking as we "speak" haha. LOL he's trying to crawl all over me. LOL that means time to get off mylot. we just got through watching happy feet. i felt it was okay to mylot during this as we've watched it about 6 times this week already. but now....time for some listening. I have to say, my listening skills are getting better, at least!!
@stacyv81 (5903)
• United States
31 May 07
yep that is what I say at least they have learned how to express themselves verbally, rather than just getting frustrated and acting out. We are pretty lucky when ya think about it! (If the ever stop talking and you get a chance to think.) lol, j/k!
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@chertsy (3798)
• United States
31 May 07
I have two girls, ages 5 and 10. Only time I get peace is when they are sleeping. I can be outside talking with my husband and my 5 yr old will come out and try to drown us both out, lol. I taught her a song that I wish I never did, lol. She sings it all the time. Some days I wish I had a new name instead of mom, or mommie. I hear that and the word WHY I think 24/7 until she goes to sleep. My 10 year old isn't any better, she doesn't know how to hush, or when mom has had enough. They both get into trouble. Couple of weeks ago, they got in a fight and pulled down my husband's Xbox360 and now the game system doesn't save any games, all because they couldn't get along in the game. Heck, at this very moment they are fighting, so I must end this short and go see what my kitchen looks like.
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@ljcapps (1925)
• United States
31 May 07
Oh no, it sounds like a battle zone! I remember when it was me, and my three half sibling/stepsisters. I'm surprised we're all still alive in that we didn't kill each other, or that our parents didn't kill us! My son is the same way, it doesn't matter where we are, or who we're talking to, he wants to be the one talking. We can be on the phone, and he's like, i want to talk to...whomever. LOL My wife is a stay at home mom, and there's times when i'm home that daemon will be like, mommy, mommy, mommy, and she'll say, mommy's not here right now, please forward all requests on to daddy. LOL and then daemon will be like, daddy daddy daddy.... with the whole xbox 360...wow. I would have needed some time away from the kids to calm down from that one. Seriously. I know that accidents happen, but a gaming system like that one is so expensive, for it to get damaged in a fight...yep. I would've definitely needed some time away to calm down from that.
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@ljcapps (1925)
• United States
31 May 07
My wife is the runner of the household and i wouldn't want to have to do it without her. I can imagine your husband was a little......mad. I remember the fighting. LOL my mother in law still jokes to my wife when we play argue, she'll say, "don't look at each other, don't talk to each other, don't even BREATHE on each other." LOL I don't envy you the task of corralling children. :)
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@chertsy (3798)
• United States
31 May 07
LOl, I like the forward all requests to daddy, that's cute. It wouldn't have worked though in this house. My husband has a GS job and on top of that he's in the guard. So he's gone a lot. I'm used to it. Having one was a lot easier than with 2. My husband had to send them to there rooms when he realised that the piece inside the box doesn't save anything anymore. Luckily he has the piece on the side that saves games. He just can't get online anymore, which stinks after paying for so many points, and I can't even get a movie out of it now. They fight so much it's not even funny, but neat to watch them sleep together at night. They have shared the same room since we brought our youngest home. Ugh, Round 2, must go and see who is trying to kill who, lol, Gees, I love summer vacations.
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• United States
31 May 07
Yep sounds like my 7 year old! I don't remember her exact age when she started talking, but when she was about 3 she was rambling on and on, finally I said " Tiffany, please mommy's ears hurt" her response? " Mommy, we should call the doctor to have him check them and give you some medicine so they won't hurt"! I laughed so hard my stomach hurt, its a moment that I will never forget, and can't wait until she grows up a little more to really appreciate the humor. But getting back, my daughter talks in her sleep as well. Now my oldest one ( she is 11) she is very smart, but one problem is she is L-A-Z-Y. She has to be told to do things, for example.. " make your bed". And she is lazy with every aspect of her life including school work, she knows the material, she just doesn't want to work to hard to do it.. grrrrr it drives me crazy! I will say though, she has been trying lately.
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@vampoet (825)
• Singapore
31 May 07
As a teacher...when my students submit their correction which are still wrong...in spite of the fact that I made them copy it from someone after making sure they understand the concept...lol
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@ljcapps (1925)
• United States
31 May 07
LOL i could see why that would be irritating, and frustrating. especially if you see a whole lot of it!