Does Your Child Make You Want To Strangle Them???

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I totally get where you are coming from. My son will ask the same question 100 times until I tell him only 1 more time! His thing now is to play with the telephone. We literally have to hide our telephones or he would be on them all day. He loves to push all of the buttons and memorize all of the different recordings that come on. He turns our answering machine off, he has changed the greeting to Spanish LOL!. and he has erased messages. He memorizes all of the messages that people leave for us, and goes around repeating them! It is driving me batty! I could think of a lot of other things, but I have to run now! Maybe I will come back later------

Hahaha! Cute thread, thanks! My almost 12 year old son listens to Linkin Park songs over and over and over again when I drive him to school. We live about 45 minutes from school so that's a lot of times that I've heard these songs. I have gotten him to where he'll let me pick a song occasionally. He tries not to like my picks, but I know he likes them....he has admitted it...he just didn't want to like them for some reason.

He makes Pokemon noises randomly which can drive me a bit crazy (though I don't tell him....I just tell him that home is the best place to do it because the public won't understand).

Sometimes, when I ask him repeatedly to do something (e.g. brush teeth, etc.). I come to check on him and I see that he hasn't moved because he's reading or playing, I'll say, "Honey, you haven't brushed your teeth...you need to do it." He'll sometimes stop what he's doing and say, "Please don't think bad of me mommy." He never calls me mommy and he knows I don't think bad of him and I'm not upset, but he thinks it's funny...and I guess I do too, but I just wonder what makes him say it!

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My son likes to make noises and run around and wave his hands in the air while his morning cartoons are on. When we tell him we are going to turn it off because he is not even watching his show, he says "no, I want it!" So this goes on all morning. The cartoons playing with him making lots of noise. I guess it is part of his little routine.

Strangle them? Nah. I don't have problem with anger issues. Actually I think last time I got angry was 8 years ago. Sometimes my first son's repeating after whatever he's heard annoy me, but I can always walk away to somewhere else. They're big kids now and don't need constant supervision, so that helps a lot.

My son and I do the "I know you are but what am I?" thing over and over and saying infinity doesnt work because he says "double infinity" and I say you cant double infinity to which he says "yes I can" and on and on.

Seriously if you kid does something you dont like that irritates you remind him of how he or she feels when you do the thing that drives them nuts. If that doesnt work do it....yeah, its juvenile but it works when you cant take it anymore. Like my son likes to smack his lips when he eats which makes me want to vomit so I ask him if he wants me to scratch the fabric of my pillow that I sit on at the table....that always works !

My god...these three sound EXACTLY like my 3 year old, although we're currently alternating demands for "Peppapig! Peppapig!" with They Might Be Giant's Here Comes Science. Which he calls "Sinus".

That's how most mornings start now, with cries of "Sinus! Sinus!"

(We've got Here Comes the ABCs and Here Come the 123s coming from Amazon this week; I hope he takes to those as well. I could use the variety.)

Grrr...my husband is upstairs sleeping (he works odd shifts) and DS was in his room quietly reading (after being reminded during a noisy game of legoes that Dad was sleeping) Suddenly, I hear KA-BLOOSH.

Of course, I now have to find a way to correct him without adding to the noise, so I call him. He brings me the book he's reading, one of the Captain Underpants books, which reads "now, say KA-BLOOSH as loud as you can. You won't get in trouble with your parents - we promise."

He points at the last line repeatedly.

Maybe this post should be "Do you ever have difficulty determining whether you should hug or strangle your child?"

LMAO... I wish we had "Like" buttons... That's fabulous.

I just spent an hour and a half in the car with my son ranting nonstop about what would happen if "Ka-Ching" became illegal to say. Starting with him being arrested for saying "Ka-Ching" and the cop telling him he was being arrested for saying "Ka-Ching". Then Ben points out, "But dud, you just said "Ka-Ching" so the State police come to arrest him and the cop. Then the swat team. Then the FBI, Then the Navy (who was going to make them all walk the plank LOL for saying Ka-Ching), except that they too said it while explaining their crime, so in comes the Army. On and on, and on. For an hour. and. a. half......

Ka-Ching!

My son who will be 3 in a month and a half currently likes to go outside everyday with a squirt bottle and insists on "squirking" all the neighbor's mail boxes. (He also enjoys TMG here comes Science, the other two are good as well, I love the nonagon song .)