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Does anyone else get freaked out by how weird their kids are? DS1 is so over imaginative. We have had the Thomas the Tank obsessions, which do not just involve watching, owning and playing TT games, but also all members of the family being assigned names and characters and being referred to as them all the time. We now have an obsession with "The Herbs" (Kiddies prog from the 70s). We have all been duly assigned names, according to rank within the family, his nursery teacher has taken me aside to question me about the prevalence of "herbs" in our family activities, and apparantly Sage the Owl has taken up residence in the spaceship above his bed. Oh yes.
He got very upset also because Mr Forgetful came across from Granny's house tonight (Bayleaf), and was only consoled by the fact that he could show Mr Forgetful a story about himself in his room. We heard him talking Mr Forgetful through it, by way of a stuffed dinosaur who is wearing a nappy.
This is why I am so exhausted - trying to keep ahead of all the bonkers references ds1 has and what reality and universe we are living in today!

Does his invisible friend have the same obsession?

lol bless him he sounds like hes got a great imagination..i reckon you have the next tolkien there

my son is obssessed with doctor who...hes 3 year olds cant say the alphabet or count to ten yet but he can repeat any episode of th new doctor who and learnt to spell bannakaffalaffa the other day

awww I think thats very cute,imagination is a wonderful thing,its sadly lacking in many kids,must wear you out tho

we keep his references fairly innocent, compared to his peers - no Power rangers or Ben 10 here, mainly because he would get so freaked out by it!
We have started the gun problem as Sir Basil in the herbs has a shotgun, but thankfully he hurt Parsley so we can point out the perils. Gods what am I talking about....!!!!
Thankfully he doesn't have an invisible friend!I think I would just faint clean away if I had two of them!
DS2 is a temper monkey, yet to see if there are any weird and wonderful thought processes there!
He can remember whole story books - a bit of a worry for trying to get him to read, but his brain is so incredibly absorbent, that yes it is exhausting! But brilliant too!

It's okay, he'll grow up to be my husband who is the loveliest man you could ever hope to meet and had a Herbs obsession as a child! We have the video but now not the technology to play it.

I love these things. DD (6) still doesn't know there's such a thing as after-school TV and is happy as larry watching DVDs of Bagpuss, Ivor the Engine, that thing with Willy Rushton as the monster who lives in the dungeon, Wallace & Gromit etc. She's now a voracious reader and lives in a world based on The Worst Witch, Hogwarts and fairyland! It can be exhausting going along with it but it can also give you some brilliant opportunities. I love it, couldn't have asked for more!

He'll be fine, DS1's (7) teacher says she always looks forward to his stories as they are so imaginative, the others are as dull as dishwater! if he's anything like my DS1 it will continue, and as he can read become more diverse! stimulating and creating your own world is far more interesting than being 'spoonfed' a preprepared americanised twaddle world. He did have an imaginary friend for a while (AKA BomBom) he was responsible for many naughty things in our house........doesn't put in much of an appearence these days, apparently he's grown up left home and currently working as a carpenter.

kind thoughts
Deb

dont worry about the reading thing hun ..we were told my oldest had dyslexia in year 2...she did really bad at her sats and they were going to test her at the end of thisa year...over the summer holidays it was almost like someone flicked a switch in her brain...shes now top of the class and has a reading level of a ten year old..her fav books being harry potter at the mo...

it will click when it makes sense..just keep reading with him and to him and relax...let him know reading is fun and worthwhile...

MrsD'ville wrote: that thing with Willy Rushton as the monster who lives in the dungeon,

That'll be "Trap Door" it's a big fave in our house - we quote lines from it!
I think it's wonderful that your wee one has such an active imagination - so many kids just don't know how to play these days and that's sad. They'll grow up into boring adults who expect to have everything handed to them and done for them because they never learned how to work it out for themselves!

About the reading thing, my little brother used to memorise whole books too, it made us worry for 2 reasons:

1) He didn't learn to read for ages

2) We couldn't get away with skipping pages of longer books to get him to bed faster!

But then at the age of about 6 he was reading words like "competition" and whole Roald Dahl books (Esio Trot, especially) 100% solo... So I guess it did him no harm!

soph's got a great imagination, especially when trying to describe something she doesn't know the real word for.
station = train house
our usual bus= white and green bus
my eyes are aching = bees eating eyes
my leg hurts = doggie eating legs

etc.

she can't say Katie so my friend will forever be known as "mimi" which is soph's name for her, and Katie's husband is "mimiboy", 'cos he's normally with mimi and he's a boy.

thankfully most of sophie's wierdness actually makes sense lol!!!

Milims wrote:

MrsD'ville wrote: that thing with Willy Rushton as the monster who lives in the dungeon,

That'll be "Trap Door" it's a big fave in our house - we quote lines from it!

Thank-you, that was bugging me! It gets quoted in our house too, especially "sniff thaaaaaaaat"!

Aww, they're just magic, aren't they?

Ellis has been in the garden most of today talking to my flowers - proper chats, they are (well, if you could understand more than 1% of what he says...). Went out to find a tulip wearing a sunhat, with a fine collection of Thomas toys to play with.....

He is coming on with his words really well now, we get about 4 new words a day...today's were 'peace' ('Argh, Ellis, give me some peace!'), beans, helwop (helicopter) and pooey (just changed his nappy....)...

Rather worryingly, he says 'Daddy' in the sweetest way. He can say Mam, but rather than say Mammy he prefers to call me Meanie....

although ds1's talking is OK, he refers to "Mamgu" as "Manky" which I do not correct, what with it being the mother in law...

The weirdness shifted up a level today. He looked at me and said "mr Happy Goat, are you being Lady Rosemary? Is Mr Small Frog being Dill?"

Translation: Mummy, I have named you Mr happy, and Goat from Stuck in the Muck, and Lady Rosemary from the herbs. I am also referring to my little brother, who is Mr Small, and Frog from Stuck in the Muck, and in fact, Dill the Dog from the Herbs.

hey, at least you can translate.

our latest child-based nightmare is having to frisk sophie when we go out, and again when we come back in. She insists on only wearing stuff with pockets at the moment and I have to check what he's got in them on the way out, and then check again on the way in. yesterday on the way in from the garden we had 3 chive flowers, one in full bloom the other two buds, two snails (one squicshed, the other very much alive), some guineapig seed and four muddy stones. All in two small jersey/fake denim fabric pockets.