I know every parent think their kid is special, but trust me on this: my daughter has a special talent to annoy in new and innovative ways. Some of her methods I am sure would come handy during [del]torture[/del] enhanced interrogation. She can also hear something once and remember it forever, you know, like songs.
So if I hear “my heart, my achy, breaky heart” just one more time, I might just blow up and kill this kid.
I know the judge will understand.
You and Weird Al Yankovic:
Ah, yours too, eh? I can sympathize. (I’m usually hesitant to come on here and complain abou the, ah, “less-fulfilling” aspects of parenting, but since you started it, I’ll go with the flow.)
My daughter - not quite 12 - is a raging mass ov developing hormones, so it’s not entirely her fault that she’s turned into Jeckyl & Hyde, but her Doctor J, while much nicer than the alternative, seems stuck in LittleKidLand at the moment. She’s constantly looking for information, but doesn’t want me to go online to find answers; she thinks instead that I should magically know everything. Other times, she hears me laugh out loud, asks why, and I tell her about the hilarious new book I’m reading. “That sounds really good, Mom!” But getting her to read is harder than doing pushups on your pinkie fingers.
I’m sorry she’s driving you nuts. Just practice some deep breathing techniques, and tell yourself that this, too, shall pass. One day she’ll be a grownup and irritate you on all new levels. (I keed, I keed!) Hope you feel calmer soon. 
And so you should – comes with being a Doper.
The way my 9-year-old drives me nuts: “Mom”
As in, every time he wants to tell me something or ask me something, he has to say “Mom” first. And then I have to say “What?”
Why can’t you just say what you need to say??! Stop saying “Mom” and making me say “What” before every conversation we have!! Aaaaaauuuugggghhh!
Just hang in there. One day, many years from now, your daughter will say these magic words to you and you’ll feel a warm glow that never quite goes away: “Mom, remember when you told me X and I didn’t believe you? You were right.”
My daughter is in her 30s and I still live for those words. 
It really makes up for everything she put me through over the years.
Just keep the weird family members away from her. When I was a child, and they found out I could repeat verbatim anything I was taught, the more evil members of my family taught me ALL kinds of poems (some of them NSFW) :rolleyes: so I could drive my mother crazy.
Ah, but to be a Doper, I have to be online! You see the paradox; it eats at me day and night. 
My 5-yo does this. I can be right there, looking straight at her, and she has to say “Mommy?” and wait for me to answer “Yes?” I’m right here! Just say it already! Aargh!
My daughter once spent an entire 6-hour car trip listening to one tape on her headphones, and singing every fourth word of Debbie Gibson’s “Electric Youth” at the top of her lungs. Only the presence of another adult in the car explains her being alive today.
That’s why mini-vans have roof racks.
My daughter is 3yo, she does this All. The. Fricking. Time. I thought it was a brief stage. But if your kids are doing it at 5 and 9, then there’s no hope for me.
And she’s singing that song again. Non-stop. This won’t end well.
I have an intense urge to call my parents and apologize for ever being a child after reading this thread.
Mine’s ten.
I have tried to figure out why he does this, and I think it could be because he needs to be sure he has my attention. After all, if I’m in the middle of reading or typing a message on the SDMB and he comes into the room and says with no preamble, “mom, what time am I supposed to go to my friend’s house?” I’ll just look at him and say “um, what?” because I didn’t really hear him the first time, I was engaged with whatever it was I was concentrating on. The “mom?” is to get my attention before he speaks.
I guess. Maybe I’m overanalyzing and he’s just doing it to drive me insane.
Oh, hell, my* mother-in-law * has to say my name before she asks me a question. Even if I’m the only other person there.
I was at New Year’s Eve party here one time where a local band had been hired, and they played a lot of English-language hits, including that one. But they thought “achy” was pronounced “atchy,” complete with the “a” sound in “flat.” To this day, I always think of the song as “My Atchy Breaky Heart.”
Well, yeah.
So, it’s annoying when kids start talking without acknowledgment. It’s also annoying when kids wait to be acknowledged. :dubious: Would it be better if he simply genuflected without speaking?
Eh, can you send him over my way? I’m one of those people who can concentrate worse than astronaut food, so whenever I’m working and Sheboss starts talking to me from her desk, there’s a 50% chance I won’t realize she’s talking to me until she’s been going on for a couple sentences. Since several of my coworkers have the same problem, Sheboss complains that we don’t pay attention to her…
Luckily there hasn’t been any more singing since yesterday. But she has since made up a word (at least I think it’s made up). Yesterday she told me that her dress was ‘condable’ (or howevwer it is spelled). After much interrogation I think now that condable it’s a good thing. (‘Poop is not condable’, but ‘pooping is’).
I am going to start using that word, just to baffle people and make them feel ignorant.
By the way, I’ve always made up words myself, I know it is unnice, but it is easier than trying to remember the right word.
Yes.