My 3-yr-old ds talks ALL THE TIME

[Pruni]

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[jabberwocky]

same thing here Pruni. Even when he's alone ds1 has a constant chatter going.

[oooggs]

I can relate to this my ds also 3 is the same. I get exhausted listening to him. I also can't get a word in edgeways

[hippmummy]

Pre-school told me the only time they don't hear DS1 talking is when he is eating..

[Furball]

ds is 5 1/2 and still going......

[Pruni]

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[noddyholder]

My ds was like this and I am sorry to say is still goung-at 12!!!!He had 2 days off school sick this week and I nearly went mad with the incessant chat!(drivel mostly which makes it worse)

[TheArmadillo]

ds is 2.3 and his talking none stop is really beginning to take off looks like I'm gonna be putting up with it for a long time yet.

When do they stop telling you the same thing 17 times in a row? (e.g. 'mummy the light's on') - cos I'm running out of answers and patience.

[NotAnOtter]

mine is 4 tomorrow - sob! it is quite wearing- but SO sweet

[IdrisTheDragon]

DS is 3. And also talks all the time. If no one is listening he talks to his toys. Or himself .

[Hulababy]

DD is 4y9m and still talking....

[Lullabyloo]

Yup 2.5 year old ds just the same
There just aint enough hours in the day to fit in everything he has to say or sing about.
A lot is sung these days
It's wonderful but bloomin exhausting

[Pruni]

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[foxinsocks]

lol pruni

I started a thread about my ds at around the same age .

I learned to tune it out. I know that sounds awful and neglectful but you get to a stage where you just regard the constant chatter as background noise otherwise it drives you INSANE.

[TrinityRhino]

dd1 is 6 and a half and still talking constantly...

[DumbledoresGirl]

Yes it will get better. When the mood takes him, my ds1 (10) will hardly utter two syllables all day. Then you fret about what is wrong with them!

I also have a chatty 3 year old, and a chatty 6 year old and, when his head is out of the gameboy, a chatty 9 year old too. I am beginning to appreciate the occasional morose moods that my 10 year old has!

[UCM]

Pruni, mine has developed an inflection where his voice goes several octaves higher at the beginning of a question and it's really really annoying? As a previous poster said though. When you want them to talk at about 10/11 and they wont that will annoy us as well

[singersgirl]

Mine are 8 and 5 and they never stop. The 5 year old still sometimes repeats something until he gets a response. The 8 year old just rabbits on about his latest obsession - often all the way home from school (10-15 minute walk), so that at the corner of our road DS2 shrieks out "It's my turn now. I haven't said anything yet!"

My worst habit is shouting over them to get them to listen as they are usually engaged in loud conversation whenever I want them to put their shoes on or go and get their reading folders or whatever.

[emsiewill]

My dd2, aged 7 did the Race for Life (5K run) last year and didn't stop talking the whole way around the course. And she was running all the way as well!

[tortoiseSHELL]

Dd does this - she never shuts up! Exhausting but sweet at the same time.

[Bienchen]

DS is 12 and still doing it. Mind you it is bound to stop when the teenage years kick in (think Keven and Perry...)

[suedonim]

Don't be too sure about the silent teenage years! Dd1 is talking her way through her teens, it's one long rant nowadays. She doesn't stop just cos she's asleep, either.

And dd2 is a non-stop talker, having been a late-starter. On one occasion I gently said to her that no one was listening and she replied 'I don't mind.' and carried on jabbering away.

[Pruni]

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[PinkTulips]

dd's 2 this week and doesn't stop..... not questions just constant narration of her life!

am also wondering, like armadillo, when the constant repetition will end. being told 25 times in a row that 'light on mama' or 'tea hot mama' and being expected to respond meaningfully every time or risk a tantrum is driving me nuts!

[Caththerese1973]

I'm thoroughly talked out with my dd (who is nearly four). She did not have much to say until she was 2, and I was even a bit worried about her. Then she started talking seriously, and of course initially I was thrilled. Now it's like, 'please just pipe down a minute while Mummy changes lanes on the freeway?' 'How about a bit of shoosh while I write this email to my boss?" 'No, sorry, I really don't know WHY cars aren't alive' (well I do know, obviously, but I'm so exhausted with explaining things. At first it was fun, now it's really,really wearing sometimes). Recently I saw an ENT specialist because of persistent laryngitis. He told me to 'talk as little as possible' because I have nodules on my larnyx and there is no cure, as such, except for resting one's voice. I couldn't help but burst out laughing: I croaked at him 'my daughter is nearly four and she's not about to let me "rest my voice", believe you me!' He had kids too, so could see the point. And it's probably not dd's fault anyway: over the last six months I was doing pretty intensive teaching, only one day a week but I had to lecture for two hours straight and then do three back-to-back tutorials.
Gee, it gets tedious. But it sure beats having a child with speech difficulties - then you'd be worried as well as worn out.

[Pruni]

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