My son's favourite catch-cry at the moment. If he's in trouble "go away!", if something's going wrong and you try to help "go away!", if DD goes anywhere near him "go away!". He says it for everything.

He's obviously received attention for it or something which makes him keep doing it. We've tried ignoring it (and in fact if we ignore it he says "I said go away" so obviously is wanting a reaction) we've tried putting him in his room or on a stool somewhere until he's ready to talk nicely to everyone, I've even actually packed up my bag and grabbed Kayla and said "Tallon wants us to go away, lets go away" and I go out the front door and pretend to get into the car.. he FLIPPED. If I ask him if he really wants me to go away he says "no - don't go anywhere". I ask if he talks to his teacher like this and he says no, so I ask him not to talk like this at home either..

but last night while he was saying it, I said 'why don't you think of some different words to say" and he was actually receptive to this idea.. but do you think I could come up with alternate words?? I racked my brain, trying to think of something funny he could say, but at the same time I didn't want it to be rude, coz chances are he's going to say this to other people. ARGH! So please.. any suggestions of something else he could say instead of "go away". As I said, it's like it's a habit, and it's just the thing that comes out of his mouth if he has nothing else to say, or if he doesn't know what to do next or whatever. The only thing that came to my mind was Seinfelds "you're sooooo good lookin" PMSL.

Any suggestions on how to deal with this? He does sometimes get really angry with the "go away" so I do think it's him not knowing how to respond to situations.. i dunno... help??