At this moment, my kids are running back and forth from the living room to the kitchen, yelling AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! at the tops of their lungs, pretending that they’re being chased by giant monsters.
That by itself isn’t weird, of course. Not for my kids, anyway. But my son has a pair of pull-up pants on his head, and my daughter has a pair of tights on her head. Other than that, they’re totally naked.
Please tell me I’m not alone here…
No kids here, but my niece tells me that her son, my great nephew, has taken to flushing anything he can find down the toilet. His latest is a pair of socks. He’s taking after me. I am so proud! 
Oh, to have to deal with young children! 
Two step kids:
Both live away from home… I’m not sure if I should worry about missing the “weirdness” stage or not.
I would commiserate, but having the Perfect Child[sup]TM[/sup] means never having to say my kid is weird. No really - it’s true! Never a moment of trouble from her. Why, at this very moment she’s, um, er, out somewhere. She said something about a chorus rehearsal. I’m sure she was kidding about the matching tattoos and the bustiers… :eek:
Naked kids with underwear on their heads - sounds pretty normal to me. Now if they were dressed like that and doing the Toreador song from Bizet’s Carmen, that would be weird…
Yesterday they were naked and dancing to the Turkish March. Nothing on their heads, though. Does that still count?
When AdoptaSon was about 3 years old, he stripped down buck naked, stood on the porch railing, and took a wiz for all the passing cars to see. We didn’t discover him until we went outside to see why the cars were honking.
Same son - dressed from head to foot when he stepped out of our house - would strip his clothing off between our house and grandmas (about 3 acres away) and arrive to visit her naked as a jaybird.
Same son - clogged the toilet numerous times in his quest to see what would flush. He tried a lightbulb, Pocahantas’ boat, stuffed Ernie doll, a bag of skittles, wooden alphabet blocks, whole rolls of toilet tissue and heaven knows what else. Only time we had to take the toilet apart was when Pocahantas’ boat got stuck in the internal “S” curve.
Thank goodness he’s the only son of 6 kids
Adoptamom_II mind if I pass on those toilet flushing suggestions to my great nephew. Ya know, just in case he runs out of ideas?
All this stuff sounds pretty damned normal to me. Now my kids, especially my 3 year old. . .well, what can I say? She has such strong ideas about the way things must be done, that I seriously thought, when she was about 2, that she might be autistic. Her speech therapist reassured me that she wasn’t (much too social, says Miss Terry), but she is strange. She insists on saying goodnight to completely inanimate objects. When she uses the potty, she tears a piece of paper off the roll, puts it in the toilet (doesn’t do anything with it first), then flushes. Then she takes another piece and wipes, puts it in, and flushes again. Oh, and if you say “jeepers creepers!” to her, it never fails to crack her up!
Just last night my son asked, " Mama, are cowboys allergic to bananas? "
Kids running around the house naked? I think that is required, no matter the weather, in Adolescent Guide Book: How to Mystify your Parental Units.
Hi,
first time poster, long time parent- 6 yrs and running…
Strange kids (2 of 'em, ages 6&3), of course.
Wouldn’t have it any other way!
norinew, my son is very similar to that too! He also, has been tested for autisum and Aspergers- it turns out, he’s jusy “quirky”, or so came the conclusion of his neurologist and the neuropyscologist.
My kids are the same ages. My daughter will be six this Sunday, and my son is three. I like to say that they’re “spirited.” 
Well? Are they?
And it wasn’t the running around naked thing that was so weird. They do that all the time. If they’re inside the house, they’re usually either a) naked, or b) dressed in each other’s clothes. It was their headgear that was a little weird. But at least my son remembered to turn the pullups sideways on his own this time, so he could see out the leghole. Last time he put pullups on his head, I had to turn them around for him, so he’d quit running in to the walls. I was afraid he’d hurt himself.
Reasons he says “Do you know what your children are doing?”:
They run around in circles trying to make themselves dizzy.
They chase each other around in circles trying to make themselves dizzy.
They chase the dog around in circles trying to make the dog dizzy.
Reasons I say “Do you see that? That’s you. Right there. You.”:
All bodily functions are cause for celebration and an excuse to laugh like a maniac, especially if it wasn’t your bodily function. They even try to claim credit for the other’s noises and smells. (Who knew it was a competition?)
They pretend to be puppies and like to lick you, because, duh, they’re being puppies.
Even though they’re little (7,3,2) they’re still hairy buggers. No, I mean it: HAIRY.:eek:
Be my guest swampbear! You might also mentioned to your nephew that if he takes a giant (Sam’s) size container of Nestles Quik and dumps it into his carpet, that the carpet remains chocolate flavored long after his parents vacuum. Ask my carpet sucking son :rolleyes:
Heeheehee! This is sort of like a handy hints thread for toddlers and other young rugrats.
Weirdness IS normal for small children. The 3-year old coy bonked his nose the other day, then stood and watched it drip onto our tan carpet for a number of minutes before his mother’s screaming sent him into the bathroom to clean up. Apparently, he thought it looked “cool” dripping from his nose. BTW, club soda isn’t the cleaner it’s made out to be.
Also, the little coy never talks to himself UNLESS he’s in front of a mirror, then you have to drag him away as he’ll spend hours in a conversation with his somehow interesting reflection.
You think your kids are weird? HA! My daughter (6) was in the backseat one day going on and on about all kinds of bizarre stuff, when she mentioned something about leprechauns and pots of gold.
“They hide them.” she said. “That’s why you have to stab them in the neck.”
Wha???
All I can say is that nudity is the norm. My kids are nudie nuts. 2 1/2 year old girl loves being Nudie Girl and running around saying “look at my butt!!” She is incredibly bossy and particular, and once, when she was making it clear she didn’t want to read a certain book, she hit me in the face - once she realized what she had done, we stopped and looked at each other, then she burst into tears and said “Daddy, I hurt my hand!” in a play for distraction and sympathy…
5 year old boy loves butts and poop jokes and anything even remotely tied to bathroom humor.
They are exhausting and too much fun.
Yay! This means my kid is normal!
She’s not into naked yet but that will be soon I’m sure… she chases the dog and the cats until they’re all hiding under my desk. She babbles relentlessly at the hamster. She also follows me around the house doing a slow mime of me! Often she takes her shopping cart and runs at top speed from one end of the house to the other.
Her favorite pasttime seems to be putting things in sets. Why color when you can stack the crayons into a log cabin?
She has her special basket that always has a sippy and a cup of cheerios that goes everywhere she does.
Right now she’s playing tug of war with the dog.
She’s 21 months now, I hope she potty trains before she gets too in love with nakedness!
My kids aren’t weird, really, just…unsettling, at times. Cryptic.
When Sakura was a toddler, she would frequently walk into a room or meet us at the door and announce, “Hello, my name is Junior High School.”
We don’t know why, and she cannot explain it.
Our son, Halford, the Human Eel[sup]TM[/sup], has had a long-standing habit of saying, as someone is going out the door, “Bye, so long, see you in Canada.”
“Canada”?
"CANADA"??!!
He defends this practice by saying he likes Canada.
He’s never been to Canada except as unformed zygotes in his parents’ gonads.
Unsettling.
Dave This is clearly a pass life experience or possibly an alien manifestation. Either way, it’s pretty funny.
**Persephone ** I don’t know about cowboys and being allergic to bananas, but watch me link an intangent thought to a vague response. I did get to watch my son, then about 18 months, try to put a Match Box Car up the dogs butt.
*That * was a very comical moment. Now the dog eyes those little cars suspicously whenever they are brought out to play.