Interview With A…

Interview With An Eight Year Old

October 8, 2017 by TheBoyAndMe 4 Comments

My son makes me smile and laugh in equal measures. He's a contrary little monkey, with a fantastic sense of humour, and everything about him makes my heart burst with adoration and love. Be it his mostly accurate commentary of the performances on Strictly Come Dancing ("His timing is all wrong Mummy, and she was basically jogging around the dancefloor with a smile on her face!"), or his complicated recipes for 'Food and Doogan' (the mudpie kitchen he runs with his cousin, from the bottom of our garden), I love to see his personality emerging with a wonderful joie de vivre.

Every year around his birthday, we conduct an interview which I record; a set format of twenty questions* that really show how his tastes and thoughts are changing as he matures. The first one was conducted five years ago when he was a squiggly little three year old infant who couldn't sit still, and some things never change!

The tastes are definitely starting to change; bye bye to Paw Patrol and Peppa Pig (look at his incredulation that it was ever included), hello to Chinese takeaways and Ed Sheeran. While some things never change; his love of Cornwall, his best friend, and his favourite meal being cheesy-ham pasta!

Previous Interviews With…

* The original questions originated with this post on A Matter Of Choice.

Interview With A Five Year Old

June 14, 2014 by TheBoyAndMe 14 Comments

For the past few years I have interviewed The Boy with a set of questions created by Emma from A Matter Of Choice; the questions never change but it's really interesting to see the difference in his answers.

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Interview With A Four Year Old

June 12, 2013 by TheBoyAndMe 29 Comments

Last year, Emma from A Matter Of Choice had a fabulous idea to interview her three year old son Leo, then to repeat the interview every birthday and see how the answers changed with age.

We took part in this great idea and last year's interview was a real insight into the randomness of my three year old son's mind. This year… well… yes.

Let's just say that he gets distracted easily, shall we?

Interview With A Three Year Old

June 21, 2012 by TheBoyAndMe 25 Comments

The lovely Emma from A Matter Of Choice, came up with a fantastic idea recently to ask her newly three year old son a selection of questions, and then to ask him the same questions each year on his birthday. Emma tagged a couple of us to take part as we all have boys who turn three within a month or so of each other, and the questions we ask really show off the boys personalities at this stage. Lauren from The Real Housewife decided to video her little boy answering the questions and I loved that idea as it shows the speech development as well as their personalities.

And so here's The Boy in his Interview With A Three Year Old and I must apologise for the length, but he decided to be a banana and I went a little hysterical.