My busy bee

[JPBest]

Hello. I do hope I get help. I have a great 5 year old son, I do love him with all my heart and as a farther I do let my son get away with a lot. Lately my son has been acting like a bee. He will come to me and say he is a bee and then buzzes all over the place. At times he will do this to people or family members. When I see him do these things I think its cute and I feel he will grow out of it. MY mom (His grandmother) thinks it is wrong and he should grow up. She said to me that him acting like a bee is annoying. So who is right?
She now wants me to tell him to stop acting like a bee and to stop the buzzing. I think that he will grow out of it and when he find out about superman then I think he will start acting like that as I did when I was his age. SO please let me know so I can do the right thing and keep him from becoming some one no one want to play or be with. (As my mom says)
Please note that I told him that bee can sting and hurt. I wanted him to know NOT to bother then when they are on flowers and HUG them. Then he saw a wasp come by and hurt the bee. So I told him there are nice bees and bad bees. (Honey bees and wasps). So I think he has a fear of bees to a point and he keeps saying he is a GOOD BEE. I feel he is acting like this to keep that fear coming out. So what can I do.

[samiam403]

Nothing is wrong with him.I think grandmom is just irked with him.we all do things other ppl don't like and this sounds like one of them.at least he's not pretending to be a thief or murderer. JUST A BEE.....TELL HIM I SAID BUZZ BUZZ!!!!

[JPBest]

pour lol wow bad type-o's

[JPBest]

Yes and no. He will play with others if I tell him too. But most times he will be by him self playing with water or trying to make things work. He found out about water and pipes. So he wants to know how the pipes move water from one place to the other. When we are at the pool this summer, He would take a watering can and let the water poor from the can into a bucket. He would at times let others fill the bucket with him and I thought that was fine. He learned how to swim in the summer. So other kids came to him and asked if he wanted to play and he said no. But when I said it was OK to play he did all day long. He ran and played ball. It made me so happy to see him make friends so easily. He was talking to girls and asked them to play too but the girls looked at him if he was weird.Him? Not a thought about it and run with his new friends.

[Sandman2]

   All great answers and Annie sums it up nicely.  Enjoy the little Buzzer!

[AnnieBrooke]

My little sister was a cowboy for the longest time.  We all had to call her Cowboy Pete, and she would ride around on an imaginary horse all day.

At age 5, your son is well able to comprehend and appreciate that some situations are different than others and have different rules.  (For an easy example, he has probably been exposed to Yo Gabba Gabba singing the song that contains "Inside Voice - Quiet, Outside Voice -- Big and Loud" or some other preschool song that makes the same point.)  And he would doubtless enjoy it if you two were in a conspiracy of sorts.  So I would suggest simply telling him that much as you love Grandma and appreciate her for her many wonderful qualities, she is a little set in her ways and finds the bee stuff just "too much."  And that you, yourself think it is fine.  So the rule is, he cannot do it around her, but he is welcome to do it when it is just you at home together without Grandma.

Most kids would get this without a lot of you needing to repeat it.  

[baby2014]

Young children have great imaginations. I wouldn't worry. Sometimes older parents don't have as much patience with children aka my mom. I always try to remind her what it was like when I was younger. But of course she says that was to long ago. My 20 months old loves a train and right now that's what he mimics he's always Choo choo and chug chug chug lol I love it. We've been catching him barking lately. I wouldn't worry. You know his imagination is great let him keep it. Tell your mom he is 5 and that's what children do they pretend. Many geniuses have said a good imagination leads to great minds. And at least he is the good bee. I think I always purred and meowed when I was younger lol. Hope this helps and let him pretend it isn't hurting anyone so what If it is annoying I'm pretty sure every person on this planet has something annoying about them but we don't go around saying things like that. I hope she doesn't say that to him that could really hurt his feelings and possibly make him insecure to express himself.

[specialmom]

Hi there.  I'm completely with you on this. Boy, we have our whole life to be 'grown up' and serious.  He's being a funny kid and should be allowed to be as silly as he wants to be at 5.  Grandma is probably old school and I wouldn't take this input to heart.  I think you are on the right track.  

Let him play and do as he wishes with the bee thing.

Does he socialize with other kids?