You’ve all heard of the terrible twos, the tyrannical threes and perhaps you’ve heard people coin the fours…the f*** you fours. Well now that we’re rolling deeper into the fours well yes, there might be a degree of the f*** yous going on but I like to this of it as this:
The smarty pants fours
It’s like this: The fours don’t suffer fools gladly…in fact they seem to think that everyone around them is as thick as two short planks (ok I admit, I am before my morning coffee), as they roll their eyes and sigh dramatically at your ignoramus like status like you just stumbled out of a cave.
“Not like that mummy!”
“Yes I know that!”
“I already told you”
“Oh dear silly daddy”
And basically a plethora of sayings that indicate that you in fact have a brain the size of a pea whilst theirs is the size of the entire universe delivered with a blustering attitude or irritation at your silly little mind in comparison to theirs.
For this year you can expect that they will be the winner, and you will be the loser, ad infinitum. Oh, and not forgetting that apparently you have also come down in the last rain shower and that your years worth of accumulated knowledge are actually worth zip. That’s right – diddly squat. You can’t possibly know the answer, and even if you do, it will somehow be flipped round to be theirs moments later.
So sit down and be quiet mummy because there’s a new savant in town, and it’s not you. But that’s ok….because we know who really taught them all of this in the first place don’t we?
Oops – sorry have to be off…I think my brain has just become so small it’s fallen out of my ear to be scooped up by my four year old!
Haha! Oh gosh, we are yet to get to the four year old stage but it sounds like yet another funny/testing age 🙂
Erin is getting like this already and she’s only nearly 2! I dread to think what she’ll be like at 4
I don’t have kids but according to my mum at this age I just used to strop all the time when I wasn’t getting my way x
Oh Talya you’re scaring me. We are 6 weeks away from gaining a 4 year old and the tyrannical threes (I like that) haven’t been a walk in the park. To hear we’re in for a rough ride with 4 isn’t music to my ears. Bracing myself for all those sayings. PS love the gifs!
Ha ha. Yes my four year old is definitely a smarty pants. I’m guessing she’s not at school though!
Woah I had never heard of the f**k me fours but my goodness they do sound challenging I must say ! You did make me laugh though haha if that is of any comfort.
Oh four is a walk in the park – wait until they are teens!! That’s a whole new ball game. Good luck! Kaz x
My youngest has only just turned 3, but he is already spouting some of those smarty pants phrases, lol. We are going to have our work cut out with him.
Oh yeah. The only thing smarter than my for year old is apparently my phone. At least that’s what my four year old says!
I have a just-turned-4-year-old and OMG, it is relentless! The terrible two’s then the threenager, now this! I have a ‘Fournado’ post sitting in my drafts too:)
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Obviously Josh is a bit young yet for this but you have summed up my niece to an absolute T! They just have all the answers don’t they 😉 but I kind of love their matter of fact view on everything x #coolmumclub
It seems my two year old is already at this stage. So help me god! I wonder what his fours will hold then. #coolmumclub
Not there yet but I don’t know if I’m ready. #coolmumclub
Oh yes I remember this well! My eldest is now in the ‘so what?!’ 6 era, where she is entirely non-plussed about everything, as she already knows it all already, obvs! My middle child is now 4, but this is more of a ‘destroy everything’ phase atm… I’m not sure which I prefer tbh! xx #coolmumclub
Ha ha – oh I remember the 4’s very well! 10 years ago now! #coolmumclub
Oh I love the 4 year of stage! They are so funny! That smarty pants ness will probably be lost when they have to conform at school so enjoy it!
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Without wanting to sound all ‘smarmy been there done that Mum’, I love reading these posts as your little smarty pants is a year behind ours, and this takes me back! There’s always another stage around the corner isn’t there?
Thanks for being the better half of team #coolmumclub MWAH (When is E gonna co-host?! ;-))
You have just described my son. It’s fun isn’t it! #coolmumclub
We’ve moved past the fours with our daughter we’ve moved on to the (nearly) sultry sixes! Moody is an understatement! But she still knows everything haha! X
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YES!!! I have a 4 year old and this describes him perfectly. He thinks he knows everything and is always telling me off! Love this post xx #coolmumclub
Our 3 year feels like he’s pretty much already there – nothing is done quite to his standard and we are definitely never in the right! #fridayfrolics
mine started this at three and three years later I’m starting to wonder if this is really a stage or if I have a future dictator living with us! #fridayfrolics