sunnyday Posted June 29, 2016 Posted June 29, 2016 ..........save me from 4 year old boys Love them really - but my goodness I have spent this morning preventing them from (accidentally) hurting themselves or each other How long now - oh actually not long at all - yay summer hols are on the way! :lol: 11 Quote
Panders Posted June 29, 2016 Posted June 29, 2016 Have to agree Sunnyday, I have 7 who are 58 months at the moment, and will they listen to sense, will they heck as like! Is it too soon to have an advent calendar for last day of term? 4 Quote
Jester Posted June 29, 2016 Posted June 29, 2016 My son is 4 and a half, he's starting school in September so is going through that boisterous I'm about to start school and make sense of it age. 4 Quote
louby loo Posted June 29, 2016 Posted June 29, 2016 ..........save me from 4 year old boys How long now - oh actually not long at all - yay summer hols are on the way! :lol: Think yourself lucky :lol: We have two that are coming back in September due to 'school place issues' Not looking forward to that! :lol: :lol: :lol: 2 Quote
finleysmaid Posted June 29, 2016 Posted June 29, 2016 please can we have some better weather so that we can go on a long hike and feed the ducks and go to the allotment and play on the fields and go on a nature hunt and in fact anything that wears them out and is not on site! :wacko: :blink: 7 Quote
Froglet Posted June 29, 2016 Posted June 29, 2016 We had a 'Camo day' (lots of service families) and did an assault course in the pouring rain! Didn't noticeably wear anyone out though. 5 Quote
finleysmaid Posted June 29, 2016 Posted June 29, 2016 We had a 'Camo day' (lots of service families) and did an assault course in the pouring rain! Didn't noticeably wear anyone out though. brill! Quote
Froglet Posted June 29, 2016 Posted June 29, 2016 brill! It was seriously good fun (the whole day|) - military wives choir, being taught 'drill' by a sergeant and the children getting to do Q&A with someone from the barracks (all parents at the school) and really interesting. I suspect though that I wasn't the only one who might have had damp underwear due to the amount of rain trickling down our backs!! 4 Quote
Cait Posted June 29, 2016 Posted June 29, 2016 Hasnt it been shown that they get one if their early tastes of testosterone at this age? I'm sure I've read it on one of my courses. I always tell parents that it's that, anyway, as it encourages them to be more sensitive, rather than furious! 5 Quote
lynned55 Posted June 29, 2016 Posted June 29, 2016 Hasnt it been shown that they get one if their early tastes of testosterone at this age? I'm sure I've read it on one of my courses. I always tell parents that it's that, anyway, as it encourages them to be more sensitive, rather than furious! Well that would make perfect sense to me after the day we've had! Honestly we are very 'boy heavy' anyway at present (out of 34 going to school in Sept 23 are boys) and all they seem to want to do is charge up and down attacking each other and knocking over anything or anyone in their way! Doesnt help that it has been pouring with rain for most of the day again. 4 Quote
SueJ Posted June 30, 2016 Posted June 30, 2016 Love the Camo day idea - only uniforms around here are usually parkies! Lots of "confident" boys and girls this year - we at least have a balance of gender (well earned after a very boy heavy year last year) Nice to see that they are all now the big fish ready to swim away from their now little pond but yes are they hard work or what !!! 3 Quote
finleysmaid Posted June 30, 2016 Posted June 30, 2016 what's that phrase? when they're behaving the worst then they need the most love...something like that! Tricky to love a child who's being SO obstinate though! 3 Quote
lynned55 Posted June 30, 2016 Posted June 30, 2016 Not only are we really boy heavy this year but of the few girls we do have there are far too many chiefs and not enough indians - goodness they seem to have perfected the art of squabbling - could get an A level in it now! 2 Quote
Froglet Posted June 30, 2016 Posted June 30, 2016 Hasnt it been shown that they get one if their early tastes of testosterone at this age? I'm sure I've read it on one of my courses. I always tell parents that it's that, anyway, as it encourages them to be more sensitive, rather than furious! So how do I explain the behaviour of my Y1s?! I can understand some of my Y2s being worried about moving to the junior school but the Y1s!!! Oh goodness - 'tis the season of complaints along the lines of 'she looked at me' just at the time of year when you feel wiped out and least able to deal with them patiently. It is moments like that when I am actually glad of the lack of hot sticky weather - makes everyone even more grouchy!! 4 Quote
Panders Posted July 1, 2016 Posted July 1, 2016 Mine remind me of baby birds ready to fledge, jumping up and down bundling on top of each other, testing out their wing feathers, peeping out of the nest, egging each other on to go, but still screeching as soon as the mummy bird comes into the nest with food and elbowing each other out of the way for the best worm. 8 Quote
sunnyday Posted July 1, 2016 Author Posted July 1, 2016 Hasnt it been shown that they get one if their early tastes of testosterone at this age? I'm sure I've read it on one of my courses. I always tell parents that it's that, anyway, as it encourages them to be more sensitive, rather than furious! Yep that's my understanding too! :blink: :wacko: ::1a My 'accident book' is seeing far too much action - they are just bouncy, bouncy, bouncy - apparently it's what Tiggers and 4 year old boys do best! :lol: 2 Quote
sunnyday Posted July 1, 2016 Author Posted July 1, 2016 when they're behaving the worst then they need the most love... I will repeat that to myself - my mantra for next week Think my mantra for this past week has been 'give me strength' :lol: 5 Quote
sunnyday Posted July 1, 2016 Author Posted July 1, 2016 Mine remind me of baby birds ready to fledge, jumping up and down bundling on top of each other, testing out their wing feathers, peeping out of the nest, egging each other on to go, but still screeching as soon as the mummy bird comes into the nest with food and elbowing each other out of the way for the best worm. Love it - describes the little darlings perfectly :1b 1 Quote
Panders Posted July 1, 2016 Posted July 1, 2016 Yep that's my understanding too! :blink: :wacko: ::1a My 'accident book' is seeing far too much action - they are just bouncy, bouncy, bouncy - apparently it's what Tiggers and 4 year old boys do best! :lol: That was just what I said today to describe one of ours, who just seems to "bomb" other children for no good reason! 1 Quote
Panders Posted July 1, 2016 Posted July 1, 2016 Hasnt it been shown that they get one if their early tastes of testosterone at this age? I'm sure I've read it on one of my courses. I always tell parents that it's that, anyway, as it encourages them to be more sensitive, rather than furious! Perhaps we could put something in their milk then to calm it down and even out its effects! 1 Quote
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