tell me about your 3.5yr old

[~Kim~]

omg when we tell her no, she turns around and shouts "charlotte says yes!" she's such a turd!
Her and DF have a love/ hate relationship, literally one minute they love each other, the next they hate each other.
She's also very anal, things need to be done exactly the same every time, which drives me absolutely batty!

oh wow, makes me feel so much better....I think that so many times a day.

[krysalyss]

DS is almost 3 and a lot of things are similar. He doesn't have imaginary friends but is very strong willed and him and DH fight all of the time. Everything has to be done by mummy. We share the care duties so it is pretty frustrating for me to be working from home to hear him screaming 'no - mummy!'. He can also be very rude but mostly to people other than me. We live with my parents and he will actually grunt at them! Argh! I keep telling myself if we are calm and nice it will eventually rub off on him.

[Visitor7]

Nina has an imaginary friend named Peta. Peta is always with her and is her best friend apparently.
Nina is ALWAYS singing. She picks up words from songs really easily. They encourage singing at her dancing class as well, so yay for us, we get to hear it 24/7.
She's just started telling fibs, like, 'I didn't do it, Emily did it' Even though we saw her do it. She knows what she's doing, and is trying to test us. Lets just say until 2 months ago, she had never been sent to her room for being naughty. Now it's almost a daily occurence!!!
I think it might be the age for it, as my friends DD who is the same age is going through it as well.

[Nelle]

Mmm hmmm. My 3.5 year old is HIGH maintenance at the moment. I should go and play with him now actually, he's beating up his brother with a balloon. Can't wait to deal with aftermath when it pops in their faces...

[krysalyss]

She's just started telling fibs

Yep we are getting fibs now too.

[Visitor7]

Thank goodness I'm not the only with the fibs! It really is driving us insane.

nelle - hope the balloon game didn't end in too may tears! lol

[Bathsheba]

Olive: my 3.5yo DS sounds very similar to yours! Yes, after bath time is baaaad. Worst time of the day. The best thing though is that DS started kinder creche (locally known as "co-op") four full days a week. He is a different child there! And he loves it! At the end of each day at around 5.45pm when i go to collect him I stand back out of his view and observe. He is generally the quieter child following instructions while other kids are being noisey and silly! I am so relieved that he is actually capable of modifying his behaviour! I suspect that at home my DS has found his niche as the loud joker. As you know his older brother is quiet, shy sensitive type and my DD is probably too old for him to compare himself to. I have heard that kids in larger families find their own niche and this can reinforce certain behaviours. Maybe at co-op my DS is surrounded by lots of loud ones and he has found that he gets more attention if he is quiet? I'm not saying one set of behaviours is necessarily better than the other... I'm just glad to see that my 3.5yo can adapt... I was thinking he was going to grow up being loud and silly everyhwere he goes!