Aaaargh - Kids have gone crazy!

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The kids are so overexcited they've gone crazy!! !!

Multiple meltdowns, fights .... help!! ! And they are Silly! Silly! Silly!

I've had to unblock 2 toilets in our house - entire toilet rolls stuffed down the toilets.

Please .... somebody .... get me a valium or a benzo of some description!

Heeeeeeeeeelp!! !! !! !!

Helen

Send one of 'em to me. This will distract my two from fighting with each other. Maybe a straight-across swap?

"Oh Ubby dear? How would you like to visit Aunty Dragon for a few days?"

Oh no no no, me me me!! ! My kids are going nutso! I need the distraction to keep my boys from fighting!

It's bad, really really bad lol. I will pay for air fare

I know a half a xanax tends to work lol.

Oh, you should be showing The Happy Elf, an animated movie about a storyteller who breaks up a sibling fight to tell them about the Happy Elf. This Elf saved an entire town from being put on the naughty list, again. The Elves work all the way until Christmas Eve to measure if you're on the "good" or "naughty" list.
It's a very sweet movie based on a song by Harry Connick Jr. My son has been really sweet, though suffering from terrible itching from nerves. Yeah, he's hyper too but not too bad. He wants to see Santa tomorrow and ask for his Christmas gift (which we hid in his room in October). I have schedules written out and he's helping me with baking. I think the heavy dose of Christmas movies has affected his temper (Charlie Brown, The Christmas Story, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Elf)

AFter Christmas, now that's going to be tough.

It's Christmas Day now:

The kids are calm and happy with their gifts.

AussieBoy is playing with his new computer games.

UbbyUbbyUbby is playing with his new dragon leggo set.

4 year old son is playing with his new cars and trucks.

A very Aspie Christmas - everyone playing by themselves!!

We've had a great day so far.

Helen

Our Christmas was the closest I've EVER been to No Santa....

We spent 3 days with all the Christmas lights turned off because the boys were so naughty. They've been told that Santa homes in on the Christmas lights.

We went to mass last night at my son's school. They were perfect - well, they talked all the way through it but they mostly stayed in their seats and didn't disturb others.

So Santa came after all.

We've done all the visiting etc... and the day is over - It's nearly 8pm in Sydney, Australia. They've eaten all the lollies in their stockings etc... everything.... and there was a lot.
They've played with some of their toys but are both outside supposedly jumping on the trampoline...

Until a few minutes ago when they smashed the 3rd last of our original 8 huge terracotta pots.

I can't even be angry with them (sigh).... I give up.

There's no point trying to buy nice things for the house with these kids around.

Sleepy Dragon and Lainie - I have discussed your kind offer of taking our boys with my husband ..... we accept!! !

Let's start making arrangements for next Christmas

gbollard, sounds like your family nees some benzos too!

Helen

*exhales loudly* We're in winding-down mode now. The kids are watching the last bit of Godfather I, which had to be suspended earlier because people were coming to visit and have conversations! Can you imagine.

Birdie, my nephew, was a shattered unit by the time his family arrived at our place. After a great deal of fussing and complaining, he settled down for a twenty-minute snooze on Aunty Dragon's shoulder. Aunty Dragon was pleased; it meant I got to zone out for awhile myself in a recliner chair with sleeping bub. Very peaceful.

Our older boy has a brilliant future ahead of him in the theatre *sigh* and the other one - well, if he doesn't make his pile in building demolition, I'll want to know the reason why.

Hope you all have a nice Boxing Day, peoples.

How old are these kids?
How do you get them to sit down through a mostly "still" movie like Godfather 1?
I was in my 30s before I felt mature enough to watch it.

The longest/slowest film my kids (well the older one) has made it through was Titanic, and that was difficult enough.

My two boys are 14 and 11. It is the 14 y.o., "Xan", who has the Godfather perseveration. He owns the Godfather and Scarface Wii games. I bought them for him after months of pleading on his part, and considerable soul-searching on mine. And also very much discussion about organised crime, Sicily, the role of the family and the church in Italian culture, patterns of migration to the USA, the maintenance of law and order in a civilised society, Batista's dictatorship in Cuba, Havana as a playground for dissolute Americans, Fidel Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the 1980 Mariel boatlift, et cetera, et cetera, et bloody cetera!

I also put it to my older boy that Michael Corleone's fall from innocence can be viewed as classic tragedy. He must have run this idea past his English teacher, because his English teacher responded that out of the three movies, the second was his favourite, as it parallels Shakespearean drama.

Now, having said all that Xan would happily sit and watch any one of the movies from top to tail, but with DVDs he can pause the action, replay favourite scenes, and explain whatever is happening onscreen to whomever is in the room (including his long-suffering mother, who watched all three movies long before he was thought of).

My younger boy loves being on the periphery, taking it all in while devoting about 75% of his attention to whatever Metroid game he has going on his DS.

Congratulations on handling the subject with such grace... And well done to Xan too, they're hard movies and it takes a lot to understand their subtleties.

No Prob Smelena, but can you take my hoodlums 1 week during the summer? lol. I am in need of a much deserved trip to Vegas lol. (actually, they would be really sweet and respectful to you, there just hoodlums to me of course lol)

gbollard... My kids are just like yours. I cannot buy the furniture of my dreams until they AT LEAST hit there teens, and then I am crossing my fingers at that one lol.

Great Lainie.

Send them over in June (that will be our winter - although we spend most of our time in t-shirts and shorts in winter).

Helen

P.S. Lainie have you read Oliver Sacks 'An Anthropologist From Mars' - one chapter is about a surgeon with Tourette's - in fact in his later editions he stated he had been contacted by several surgeons with Tourette's!

Last edited by Smelena on 28 Dec 2007, 11:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Thanks for this. And I have to admit that the spoilsport in me wants my kids to realise that these are not tales of mindless violence suspended in a moral and cultural vacuum. They arise from real-world situations, and there are ongoing repercussions and consequences.

Besides, all-silliness-all-the-time gets a bit hard on the nerves after a while....