do your kids act like different people in public?

[SnowBirdie]

sure, i know most kids are different outside the home, but annie is loud enough to make our ears bleed at home, and like a mouse in public. she doesn't say a word or whispers, but at home she sings, whines, yells, talks loudly, and is full of energy all the time.

amanda, on the other hand, at home is fairly laid back and doesn't say as much as annie. in public she walks up to strangers to hug them, talks out loud to people, and is generally nosey. she even wants to talk to people about what foods they are eating if we go out to eat!

they also are both very well behaved out, and at home it is a different story (not awful, but not like when they are out). anyone else like this?

[Lilac]

:yep TOTALLY.

At home Erin is the instigator. She can torment Abby something bad :lol But in public she is the quiet angel. She is soooo shy. Abby is social and is pretty much who she is at home and out in public.

I get a kick out of watching their different sides come out.

[SnowBirdie]

it is strange, isn't it? you look at them and go, "where is my child?" lol...annie looks like such a sweet angel and is so quiet people forget she is there. at home she demands our attention all the time. no one will believe at home she steals amanda's toys and generally annoys her.

if amanda falls (happens a lot) she has to fall so we will see if she is all right too. when we are out she is mostly silent and just watches everyone. it is hilarious! i do hope annie doesnt' turn out to be really shy though...sigh.

[Lilac]

It IS funny. I try to tell people that they are not really this good normally. But they don't believe me. I tell them to come over for the day and see what they are really all about. Nobody has taken me up on it. IF they did they would find my children can be little demons who love to torment me.

[SnowBirdie]

YES! no one believes me either...lol. i have to show them video of the girls at home to make them believe annie isn't an angel all day. they say, "oh what a joy you have with two perfect little girls." my son had us take video so he could believe they can talk. he thought they needed speech therapy:snicker

after he saw it he said he was glad he had a volume control on his computer:hehe they were singing the alphabet song at the top of their lungs over and over and playing their pianos with it. he asked if they did that all day..lol.

i only hope it continues!:hehe

[SnowBirdie]

i mean the good behavior, not the song over and over...geez....:frolic

[Lola Starr]

Yes. Alex is quite shy in public. At home she's going through an obnoxious phase. :twitch.

Annie is just Annie. Sometimes she is good, sometimes she is a terror & she's been known to sit in strange laps at the public pool. :lol I never know what I'm going to get from her.

[Chaser]

The twins are usually really well behaved when we're out, unless they're tired or hungry, then I get the "better you than me" comment a lot. I'm sort of glad they're well behaved out, it makes me look like I know what I'm doing.

My five year old Alex is a social butterfly out, at home it doesn't matter. She's the same exact child everywhere we go. It makes me look like I really don't know what I'm doing.

[zak frost]

I think my boys are terrors. But, some people think they are wonderful. Those people who shall stay unnamed need to be a fly on the wall at my house!!

[SnowBirdie]

i know...they are wonderful if people come over, too. they get pretty quiet...i tell them to stay all day so we can actually get things done.:snicker

[Lola Starr]

My kids are well behaved for everyone, but me. If I leave them with Dad, Grandma or Grandpa they are angels. The second I come home all hell breaks loose. :shrug I don't get it.

[my2cutetwins]

Ds and dd are a bit more mindful in public. They are not shy at all. I think they overwhelm other kids with their friendliness. They are very well behaved at school, I think it is the peer pressure.

[Duck]

My kids are just hams, PERIOD! They love attention, so sometimes they seem better in public, but it's just because get more attention in crowds than they do when sitting home alone with me.