Hi,

I have a four your old son and he keeps on telling me that I want to become big, he also imitates me such as if I am dressing up for work with tie and suit, the way I talk business on my mobile phone, the way I drive.

When I asked him, why you want to become big, he says that I want drive the car fast very fast, he is so much in to Formula one racing sports, Love cars like crazy, shows a lot of aggression for high speed.

While driving, I am to caution and don’t want to give him an impression, I keep telling him that you need to be careful while driving, accident may happen, people can get hurt. But when he is in the car he thinks that he is on the race track.

I have kept on explaining him that being young is fun, cause due to this obsession I don’t want him to lose the time that’s kids at his age should enjoy,

If he does not have food or become troublesome, we have to just say the buzz word and things work perfect, the buzz word is "if you don’t eat or make mischief how are you going to become big, you will stay small” but this buzz word in fact statement is becoming sort of a negative appreciation to him.(bribe)

Any better way to handle.

Regards
Dave

Just another phase. But at 4 years old it'll probably last longer than previous ones. He *is* having fun. Good to make the distinction between closed track for racing and general driving around town.
BTW I love F1 too.

At four years of age his imagination is running wild,which is good,and also that he has a positive role model.

Using the 'you won't be big and strong if you don't eat your veg' is not a bad thing,you can give lots and lots of praise when he does.

As needkarma said,its just a phase and as he matures he will understand more how the real world works,right now if you said bunnies under the bonnet run the car he would believe you,enjoy this stage of his development,it passes oh so fast.