Sooooo tired of his obsession
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| Fri, 08-25-2006 - 11:09pm |
Do any of you ever feel like, if you have to listen to another word about your child's obsession, you are going to snap?
OMG! Did you know that "Toa Vakama is a cross-wired freak who has weird dreams"? Or that Toa Nokama can talk to the rahi known as Kikanalo? Or that Onewa used his mask of telekinesis to make Whenua sit down? I sure did.
David paces back and forth, telling us these things OVER and OVER and OVER. If I'm emptying the dishwasher, David appears behind me, wanting me to turn around and SEE how big a Ratuka spinner is. If I'm chopping vegetables in the kitchen, he's running back and forth trying to test me on my Metru Nui knowledge. The kitchen isn't big enough for two people (not if one is leaping about and the other has a knife, certainly), and he gets mad when I miss something he said because the hum of the refrigerator is louder than his voice when he's running to the other end of the house.
Just now, as I type this, he comes pacing and panting behind me, with two Bionicles in hand, "ZAK!!!ZAKZAK!!!ZAK!!!....Hey mom......which one of these guys do you think defeated Makuta in a deadly kolhii match?..."
I remember a time when everything my little David said was so fascinating. My little genius toddler said the most interesting things! Now, I'm ashamed to say, I often tune him out. "Kongu's Gukko bird has the same pieces as the Pombalubas that were vaporized in the Magma Pits of Hewka Newka, but in light blue instead of light greenish-blue." "That's nice dear."
For once, I'd LOVE to hear about something, anything that isn't about Bionicles or any other Lego-related theme. (And not, "Playmobil really sucks, because it isn't Lego."
Anyone relate?
Evelyn

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huh, huh, what was that? Where you talking to me?
I am sorry to say I often tune mine out too. Even if it isn't the same obsession for years, it usually is the obsession of the day or some stream of facts. And once they get going you can't stop them.
My favorite is the phone rings and it is something important and I say "just a minute I have to get the phone" and they continue on and on trying to out talk the call until they finish whatever it was they needed to say. doesn't matter if I was listening. Of course later they quiz me on it. Mom I told you.... You did?
We get the phone thing here, too. That one I kind of get, because they can't actually see or hear the person on the other end of the line. Neither of my kids has ever talked on the phone. They act like it's going to transmit some kind of horrible disease or something.
My kids also both talk to me at the same time, about two totally different things, and expect me to be able to absorb it all. Just today, Nathan was telling me the rules to some game he created with sidewalk chalk, and David came over and started in on some Lego monologue that he expected me to listen to. I tried twice to tell him that he needs to wait his turn, because when two people are talking to me, I can't give my full attention to either of them. At one point, both kids stopped at looked right at me, as I told them this, as if they were really listening. As soon as I stopped talking, both of them started up where they left off. In one ear and out the other.
Evelyn
LOL! You live in my house! That is SOOOOO them. Times like that I just throw my hands in the air and say oh well, this is my life!
btw, even EMILY does this to me. I am starting to think she is not quite typical. i don't think she is ASD by any stretch of the imagination but not quite typical.
Last night I went to back to school night. The kids in her class all did this project on the number "3" (3rd grade) that was an all about me at 3 or something. Well of all the kids in teh class hers was the only one UPSIDE DOWN! You know she had the dang thing on her desk backwards the whole time and didn't notice. She STILL gets her numbers and letters occasionally backwards, she often mixes up terms like yesterday, tomorrow, she will call letters, numbers and numbers, letters. That kind of thing. Not all the time but sometimes. She also tested into GATE last year on the first try but barely got a passing grade on her state math standardized testing.
Will we ever stop worrying about our kids?
Renee
Oh do I ever relate. My son is a space shuttle/jet fanatic. ALL he talks about is this. Even worse is that he is constantly making space shuttles and jets. You can not go into his room without scissors, paper and cardboard being cluttered all over the place. I am constantly vacumming up his mess. Also, he keeps an eye on the paper towell and toilet paper rolls ALL THE TIME as soon as they are empty he is grabbing them and running off to his room to create another space shuttle.
He used to be this way about trains but then dh took him to Kennedy Space Center a montha go and here we have a new obsession. It is all he wants to focus on in school too which is causing a problem.
O! Yeah! Kivrin is only 4, but we go through phases like this. Right now it's Orca's. 10,000 times a day or so I have to hear about blowholes and the placement of eyespots and the size of orca tongues and orca diets and orca fins and the changing pitch of orca voices according to age and and and. 5 months ago it was care bears so this is at least tolerable, but I'm so tired of the same conversation over and over and over again. Sometimes I feel like a really bad mom. I have complex migaines and recently (6 weeks ago) started taking topomax which makes you pretty darn stupid in the beginning. Between the topomax and the orca conversations and the complications of trying to keep everyone's schedules straight I could often be found standing in the middle of a room muttering "what the *&^% was I doing here?" while Kivrin happily danced around chirping about her blowhole.
Mary
OMG, RMAO!!!!
I was in such a horrible funk this morning/early pm and then I read this thread.
But....but....but....what if you got on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"
We got the k'nex lightsaber thing going on here. We often have had to remove the toy lightsabers as well and the boys have quite the collection. For a while Dave bought a new one each trade in only to have it taken away by the end of the day.
RIght now they are doing pretty good with them which is amazing. I don't think I have taken them away in weeks. Maybe because they are into pirate swords (pirates of the caribean) The other thing is water guns. Every EVERY time they get a water gun sure enough it gets confiscated.
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