Oh no no no. 

That is when you find a book, grab a glass of wine and tune ALL that nonsense right out. 

If you nicknamed sd "baby Stuart" after the skit from MadTV my week would be made. I literal read this in his voice. Incase you aren't familiar. https://youtu.be/WyvbFMGmImg 

OMG! I would lose my mind! SD9 is more attention seeking than any kid I've ever known, but she doesn't even do that! Maybe when she was a little younger, but nothing too crazy or over-the-top. When she did have her "Daddy, watch this!" moments, they were always ridiculously stupid and my SO would smile proudly and seem amused by it. Like, her dancing around like a future stripper at age five was sooo cute! Yuck!

It would be even worse if he thought it was all so precious.

SD is like this..less now (she is going into high school) but still is annoying.

Halo....watch my umpteeth tik tok dance  (where are those hot pokers for my eyes when you need them)

Daaaaaddd...watch this video

Halo...look at my slime

Dadddddd...look at my selfie...its so funny I have my tongue out.  (it is neither funny nor attractive)

Daddddd....Daddd...

Sounds like 4-year-old behavior to me.

I wouldn't have been still around for hour 3.

OMG - both SDs did this.  Drove me nuts and I either avoided the room or got up and left. Usually it happened just as DH and I sat down for a movie or a show at the end of the day to unwind.  He hardly ever stopped it.  So I just removed myself.  YSD did this for the last time this past winter, just before she turned 14.  It was maddening and she would.not.stop even as DH got fed up.  DH finally had to yell at her to knock it off, we'd had enough.  Then a discussion of listening to others, respecting their requests and understanding what's annoying and not (again, respecting other's input) happened.  She's never ever done it again.

Right around that time she went through a period of knock-knock jokes.  Seriously.  Almost 14.  She did them for over an HOUR one day as we were all on a walk.  I started walking faster and faster to get away.  I finally told her I was not going to respod at all any longer as we were done here. 

There's no social awareness in her much at all.

Just talking with DH last night we was commenting on the fact that "why doesn't she listen to other people, she only does what SHE wants to do?"  REALLY?  REALLY?  "Well, DH she and OSD have always been raised so that they get to decide everything they do, so there you go."  CUE "Are you calling me a bad parent!?" Me:  "Sorry, I over-stepped.  My bad, conversation over."

She needs this t-shirt:

https://www.betterthanpants.com/restraining-order-just-another-way-of-sa...

“See see dh, you don’t shut this crazy shit up, wifey and little ones are out the door!!” Followed by the next time skid did her tik tok bs or “daddy daddy see me now!” Would be folloed by me rolling my eyes and saying “kill me now!!” Whilst i walked out the room

During the beginning of my relationship and marriage to DH (and was stupidly trying to be the perfect girlfriend/SM to no avail) SD would demand to "serenade" us every night she was with us with her guitar playing and singing, or DH would ask her to. From what I'd be told, SD had been in singing lessons for years, so I assumed she must have some talent given the lessons were very expensive and she had kept them up. The guitar lessons had recently started. I was quite happy to hear it as I love music.

It was horrifying. Her singing, if you could call it that, was like fingernails down a chalkboard, completely off key, nasally etc. And the guitar playing appeared to just be picking at random strings with no consideration to the actual song. And she only ever sang and played one song. Over and over. At first I sat there, thinking it was a joke. Spoiler, it wasn't. I soon realised DH and BM really thought she was great. Then we were invited to her recital. SD stood up in front of more than a hundred people and wailed out her song, with untuned and incorrect guitar accompaniment. She was the oldest kid there, and all the other kids played their instrument or sang nicely. I was mortified for her. DH looked so proud, but as I glanced around the hall other specators were giggling and making fun of her. 

I was really upset that DH and BM could be so cruel as to put SD in the position where they had convinced her she was good. She made a fool of herself. Afterwards DH was gushing about how fantastic SD was. I just stayed very silent. And I continued to stay silent every time DH brought up SD's "talent". Then SD blew everything up at home and refused to visit anymore (unrelated to the singing). Sometime after our eldest bio started singing around the house. No one in my extended family can sing,including me, it's no secret and we make it a family joke. DH told our bio to not sing anymore as it was a horrible sound that hurt his ears. Bio said, "but dad, you like SD singing and she hurts everyones ears, she sounds so bad that everyone laughs at her even though she tries hard". DH looked shocked and asked me if I thought that was true. I had to gently break the news that all our family and circle of friends were well aware of SD being completely tone deaf and left the room anytime she stated singing, but hadn't want to hurt his or her feelings by telling them. 

Eldest bio doesn't sing anymore within earshot of DH, only with me when we are joking around. On the very few occassions DH has heard bio sing and said to stop it, I just give him the look and mildly say something along the lines of how we've all had our ears hurt by terrible singers many times in the past. I still don't think he gets it though. 

Unfortunately the singing and guitar were not the only attention seeking and annoyances things we've had to endure. They were non stop when she was with us. Now she is with BM full time, who gives her all her attention as neither have any life or interests or jobs. They must feed of each others attention. I still have to turn off the sing SD used to sing when it comes on the radio, gives me flashbacks.

I didn't know that every SD had the most amazing singing voice!  My SD also sings very loudly over songs as DH gushes about how great she is and her "unique" voice.  Trust me it isn't anything special at all!  It isn't an actual talent she has or gift.

My SD is also 13.  She is usually a very big attention seeker but she hasn't been as bad about it lately (which I'm happy about) or maybe it is b/c she hasn't been around as much lately with the stupid COVID BS! However, I have noticed that even though she has stopped doing the "look at me" crap non-stop DH is still trained to check on her non-stop.  Now when she visits he is always checking on her.  Drives me crazy!  You don't check in on our bio every 5 minutes and he is 5 and needs help with stuff still.  SD is 13!  Let her stay in her damn room.  Stop trying to get her to come watch TV with us b/c she ruins it for me with her non-stop talking when you do that.  Stop worrying about her eating I have seen her eat 5 times already!  Ugh!