Boys - there is something of the anorak in them all, right?

[hunkermunker]

Discuss.

[schnapps]

By anorak do you mean Roy from Coronation Street?

[TooTicky]

Ds1 - firemen, police, knights,kings and grandeur, and a complete obsession with badgers since he was 1.
Ds2 - Tractors, Brum, superheroes.
Anorakism is just obsessiveness, right?

[hunkermunker]

Yes, think trainspotterish ability to talk in a droning voice about something mind-numbing

[TooTicky]

For ds1's birthday we took a group of children out, and one little boy told me the plot of a film on the journey - in detail - it took half an hour! (And I couldn't tell you which film it was...)

[gigwig]

oh yes definitely for my DS - thinks he knows all about trains and diggers.

[southeastastra]

both my sons are anoraks one was obsessed with the tube and knows the map like the back of his hand. he now knows everything about football. the smaller one is getting that way too

[stoppinattwo]

DS is an absolute football anorak, since the advent of world cup sticker/stats he could tell you how much each player weighs, even what they had for their tea last night!!!

[stoppinattwo]

Oh yes and dinosaurs, I used to think that he made the names up as he went along.........no he just seemed to know them

[gegs73]

Mines like that with Thomas the Tank Engine.

Most grown men I know are anorak about something too. Dh - guitars and computers, brother - football, friends dh - sports and in particular sporting equipment, brother in law - cars the list goes on. Still I guess all women talk about is boys, hair and makeup

[Rosieglow]

Oh yes, DS is typically car/digger/train mad. I remember going for one of his developmental check ups (2 years?) and the tick list was "knows fifty words" - I started counting & got to over fifty just on vehicles. Was very pleased with myself until I realised that was about all the words he knew!

Car journeys are now spent correcting me..."No, mummy, that's a grab-lorry / flat-bed truck etc etc"

And don't get me started on Thomas trains...he goes through the website which lists all of them and I have to read out their profiles. Anyone know who No 8 is by the way? It's bugging him that I don't know...

[hunkermunker]

Rosie... Duck

[lua]

My DH is definetely an ANorak!

What can I do to save my sweet DS?!?! [pleading emoticon]

[hunkermunker]

I'm afraid it's not possible to save your DS from the anorak gene, Lua

[lua]

You are probably right HUnker!

But do you know how can I make DH not be a boy anymore?
[really hopeful emoticon]

[TooTicky]

Actually, my dd1 used to be a bit anorakish - when she was 2 she knew all the Thomas the Tank trains, and by the time she was 3 she could identify any known dinosaur.
Now she knows more history than anybody I know (she's 9) - thankyou Horrible Histories!

[Pruni]

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[Pinotmum]

Dd is a Thomas the Tank anorak. He knows all the names and I have no idea where he picked them up from . Is there a Thomas gene that he could have inherited?

[Rosieglow]

Oh, thanks Hunker..DS will be pleased!

[Northerner]

superheroes and cars here.

[hunkermunker]

Lua...nope