What is with 11 year olds?

[Pin Wizard]

Do kids lose brain cells or something? I remember my sister saying her son seemed to lose some at about 12. Sheesh! He just hasn't been acting like himself. He was "playing" with the dog and I heard it squeel. End of playing with either dog. Just caught him hitting a chair will my new pillows. Nixed that! What is with this age? And he's been doing some strange things even while we were in Florida. So I don't think it's the move in particular.

 

[Lorix2]

Hormones out of control? I dunno either...

my 11 almost 12 y/o girl is more clutsy, forgetful, either really happy or very angry one minute to the next and constant backtalk. Preteen syndrome - don't you love it

 

[Lachesis00]

ha! wait until he is almost 13. It gets worse :/

My soon to be 13yo has a hard time going to bed at night (at a decent time) and then getting up

 

[Beauty]

ROTFLOL!

My 12 year old is UNREAL, he is so goofy and stupid at times!! I mean he comes up with the absolute stupidest things and then he will say off the wall things.

Yep I definatly think its the age. At least I hope.....or I'm raising the next Adam Sandler.

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

don't get me started on girls. older dd turned 13 in november, younger dd will be 12 in July. the hormones fly around here!

 

[chager]

Nick won't be 10 until July and he has already started this behavior!!!!! Sometimes I think I really have a 11/12 year old in the house. :space:

 

[Pin Wizard]

LOL, Beth!

Lachesis...He's been pushing on the bedtime. Two nights ago he was up way too late. Then yesterday he said that if he stayed up too late, he thought I would let him stay home from school. Ha ha! No way! Just go and suffer all day.

Lorix...Backtalk has been a problem for a while now. You think they would get it after a while!

I hear it gets worse. :confused2

 

[FPgurl04]

i was 11 once. 3 years ago. and according to my parents, yeah i t does get worse with age.

 

[mickeyfan1]

It is puberty, for sure. Most boys start by age 11, and the saddest news is that physically, they don't get totally over it until around 21. Science fact. It isn't always nice, it can be very emotionally draining on both you and them. My youngest sister is going through it with he 13 year old, it has gotten progressivly worse over the last 2 years, and she has a 10 year old son, too.

My son was reallym, really, really bad at times. It caused a tremendous rift between him and his father. They still have problems, and my son is now 26.

Best of luck to all you mothers of boys. It can be good and it can be bad, but try to take each day as it comes, and if all else fails, chocolate martinins make everything better. If they don't after 2 or 3, you won't care anyway.

 

[browneyes]

I go through the weirdest stuff with my 11 yo too, Sandy. I think it's because they're at the strange age of not really being a kid, but not being a teenager. They can't decide subconsciously from 1 second (literally) to the next if they miss being a kid to being mad that they aren't quite a teen yet. I can't wait for teenhood to hit to see if I survive or not.

 

[mickey65]

I have a class of 30 of them! I love my students, but there are certainly some days that this pattern of change dirves me nuts They were not like this in September....what happened to my darling angels

 

[floridaminnie]

I have 136 of them and they are literally driving me crazy right now!

 

[Pop Daddy]

Originally posted by floridaminnie
I have 136 of them and they are literally driving me crazy right now!

wow, we know what you do when your not dissing

 

[Lachesis00]

Oh yes, backtalk. He doesn't do it to me (I always tell him "watch your mouth or I will take you down" what that means I am not sure as he's got a good 6" on me but he backs off. {can you se me wrestling him to the ground hahahaa)
He is mean and nasty to my sister tho which is not cool.

Originally posted by Pin Wizard
Lachesis...He's been pushing on the bedtime. Two nights ago he was up way too late. Then yesterday he said that if he stayed up too late, he thought I would let him stay home from school. Ha ha! No way! Just go and suffer all day.

Lorix...Backtalk has been a problem for a while now. You think they would get it after a while!

I hear it gets worse. :confused2

 

[Maleficent13]

It is puberty, for sure. Most boys start by age 11, and the saddest news is that physically, they don't get totally over it until around 21.

Um...do you happen to know when they get over it MENTALLY? Most of the guys I know are between 30 and 35 and I'm still waiting!!

 

[DSNY FN]

Wow it must be hitting our 7 YO DD she is pushing the bedtime thing and trying to get out of chores and is happy go lucky one minute and a tyrant the next. She is into this I want everything and if she doesn't get it she screams at the top of her lungs and stomps off with the soon followed you don't love me do you. She will also just burst into tears if you tell her no she can't do somethings or question her about other things she is driving my wife and I nuts lateley. Ah kids what would we do without them live peacefull lives at WDW I think hehehe.

 

[stinkerbelle]

Originally posted by mickeyfan1
...and if all else fails, chocolate martinins make everything better. If they don't after 2 or 3, you won't care anyway.

 

[Robinrs]

Michael is 11, too... I guess I'm waiting for him to be a KID.

Michael is WAY too mature for his age and that's not just me talking. I wish he would be clutzy and clumsy, he's more like a way too together roommate who fixes MY messes!! I'm sure it's because it's just us two. I just hope he doesn't miss out on being a kid, it's such a short time in life....

He's neat, anal and organized, preachy, moral and dignified. I am NONE of these things!!! Okay, maybe one...

In the meantime, all of his teachers love it. Me, I want him to enjoy being a baby. Being an adult is rough enough.

 

[Pin Wizard]

Robinrs...I used to know of a single dad who had a 5 year old son at the time. When his son occasionally did something the dad was unhappy about, the son told him he would put himself in time out and went to his room! The dad wasn't quite sure what to do about that. LOL!

Shannon...Could be. The other day he asked me if he's a pre-teen. Hmmm...I would consider 12 a pre-teen, but I told him that when I grew up you were a kid and then a teen. No pre-teens! LOL!

Mickey...I ask myself that all the time...what happened to my sweet little boy? I know they grow up, but you sometimes wonder.

Suzanne...

Lachesis...Yes! He's getting way too tall also! Soon he will be as tall as me. That doesn't seem right for a 5th grader. The pediatrician says he'll be 6'2" or 6'3". YIKES! And I'm sure that will be revised in future physicals.

Dsny fn...you remind me of why I'm glad I have a boy! LOL!

 

[DSNY FN]

Thanks Pin Wizard and to think we have another daughter who is going to be 3 on the 11th of may and a little guy who will be 2 in October.