Does anyone else's child not stop talking?!

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He's 5 and I swear he doesn't shut up. He talks constantly. I've made a massive effort today to give them a good fulfilling day.
9 am they were both out on their bikes with baby in the pram. Rode to the local playing fields I talked, tried to help him ride his bike more confidently, played football, and then park.

3 bloody hours we were out.

Then out to meet family for Sunday dinner. Now we're back. I've got my feet up on the couch with the newborn laying on me and I just want to chill for a little bit before bed time starts.

But he won't piss off! He won't shut up and stop chatting absolute rubbish. I've even said to him that I'm a little tired after all we've done today but he just sits for 10seconds and then starts again!!!

He's always like this. But it's been highlighted more with the summer holidays.

JFC bring on the start of school.

Please tell me I'm not alone!!

He's been talking about the babies hair, and how hair grows for the past 5 mins 😐

My 10 year old can talk for England. But on the other side my 6 year old has autism and can’t talk and I am desperate for both of us that he does. So I take the talking but it is wearing.

I, too, am a husk. I put my earphones in going around waitrose the other day to drown out the endless muttering of the toddler. I know I am a bad person.

My 5 year old DD is exactly the same. Obviously I don’t shout “STFU” but my goodness do I want to!

It is incessant and at least three times a day I tell her to “Please stop talking.”

My DD will also accompany everything she does with a song. It is like living in Lloyd-Webber musical and is bloody wearing.

Am I wrong to be looking forward to the moody teenage years when she is buried into an iPad or phone and can only grunt?

In his sleep, when on the toilet, by himself, while walking upstairs. I get maybe 10 mins first thing before my brain turns to sludge and starts dripping out my ears.

Mine was like that and - so was I! I used to walk around singing too (so did my son).

In adulthood we both quietened down and don't feel the need to talk unless we really have something to talk about.

It doesn't last (but it is quite sweet and you'll miss it when he no longer chatters away).

My 4 year old is exactly the same, before she could talk properly she'd talk nonsense all day, she clearly likes the sound of her own voice.

I do feel bad sometimes that I switch off from her, she's a constant background noise.

I have one with fairly severe speech and language problems (she's finally got intelligible speech now aged 6 1/2 but it's still not perfect) and one who was an early incredibly articulate talker and has not bloody shut up since. She's now 7 1/2 and there are days you go to bed feeling like you've been physically bludgeoned by the English Language. She even talks in her sleep - not the odd grunt, but full blown wittering on!

The only person who can shut her up is last year's teacher who can stop her mid sentence with a single raised eyebrow.

Hopefully it'll counterbalance when parents of non-verbal children come on and tell us off for complaining that I have another we've spent thousands on speech therapy to try to get talking at least.

A lovely speech therapist saw my pain and told me I didn't have to listen. I'd felt like such a bad mother unless I responded and engaged. The permission to zone the charter out was like lifebelt to a drowning person

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One of my children has adhd and potential asd (not diagnosed but I think he masks it very well). He doesn't stop talking from waking to sleeping (unless he's reading in which case it's almost impossible to get him to listen and then actually provide an answer). It's exhausting!

I've got a chatter box. She talks to everyone she meets.
Walking down the street she says HIYA to everyone we pass.
We used to have a monitor in our room till DH unplugged it, because of her chatting to her dolls at 4am.

Mine is 24 and still does it. At least now I can tell him to go away when I'm tired as he doesn't live here anymore.

Mine is 4 and she hasn't been quiet since she first started talking... She even talks in her sleep.

Yep, mine is almost 5 and never stops talking. Recently had her home visit for starting reception and in the language box the teacher wrote down "speaks English at home - lots!"

The 2.5-year-old heading the same way. They do sometimes talk to each other instead of to me though, for short periods.

I feel mean telling them to be quiet, so I send them off on complicated errands/quests around the house...

OP, I was the same as you when she was a baby, talking incessantly and describing everything we saw and did to help develop her language skills. DH feels like this may have been a mistake! With DC2, she narrated everything for him so I didn't have to. I'm due DC3 now and I'm not sure they'll ever be able to get a word in when the time comes...

Ahaa, yes I have four of these too. So far age has had no effect - sorry OP! I'll often say to DH that they'd be brilliant radio DJs as they'll never have dead air

All five year olds are like this aren't they?

This is why screen time was invented.

I think DS1 was about eight or nine by the time he actually responded to the direction to leave me alone to chill for a bit.

What actually annoys me most though is when they talk and talk and talk and talk but then have the audacity to look bored when I'm talking!

Mine is nearly 5, NT and a lovely, bright, kind child, but she just does not ever stop talking ever ever ever apart from when she is glued to the TV. We let her watch more TV than we are happy with but it’s the only way to give our ears a break, or have a thirty second adult conversation with each other about when is the MOT due or what shall we do at the weekend.

She talks at the cat too, and tries to have conversations with Alexa. The worst is in the car where there’s no hiding in the loo for five minutes.

It’s exhausting. My husband copes better with it than I do but I’m quite introverted and it just wears me out.

My mum is nearly 80 and is like this on steroids. She never EVER stops talking including while watching TV. I love her dearly but after a week staying with her I want to shut myself in a dark, soundproofed cave for a month to recover.

14 DS hasn't stopped talking since age 3

I wish mine just talked at me for once so I could tune out, but they cottoned on and now it has to be interactive and they compete.

I am now an expert in holding down 2 simultaneous soul destroyingly inane conversations. I wonder sometimes whether this skill is transferable.

I have tried to hide, but they find me. Wherever I go, they find me. I have 2 methods of temporary reprieve...

1. Tidy their rooms. I dont see them for dust, probably because I am immediately in a foul mood and might ask them to do something.

1. I take them somewhere such as the beach and make it clear that if they come back and are not bleeding/dead, we will be going home. You do have to mean it though and carry it through once or twice so.ewhere local.

The only silence I get is when I tell her I need to concentrate when driving, it only lasts 10 seconds bit it is blissful relief from the non stop chattering or singing about whatever is running type through her head.

My 3 yo DD is like this. Absolutely non stop chat about absolute nonsense or she’ll get fixated about something we’re going to do. E.g;
“What you doing mummy?”
“Getting ready to go to the shop”
“Can I come with you? Are we going right now? What shop we going? Is it the blue shop? Can I wear a pretty dress? Are you ready mummy? Let’s go shop mummy, where are your shoes mummy? I can drive the car? Are you ready mummy? Come on let’s go! Come on mummy let’s go shop, you got your bag? Is it green shop or blue shop? Where’s the car mummy?...
This is all asked before I’ve even been able to answer the very first question.
How I’m not in a puddle of tears at the end of each day I don’t know.😩

My dd was like this. When she was old enough I explained to her that we don't have to say everything we think, somethings we can just say in our head to ourselves.
She was saying every thought she had out loud, but this helped and it definitely improved. She still remembers me saying that and how she'd never thought of doing that before.

DD(5) didn't talk for ages and then one morning she woke up talking in full sentences. She hasn't stopped since. She also does a hideous baby voice that makes me want to scream. I love her, and we have some lovely chats (actual conversations rather than her just talking at me) but fuck me, sometimes I wish she'd just stop talking! And she takes forever to tell a story, it drives me mad. She gets halfway through, decides she's told something a bit wrong and then starts again from the beginning. She used to do it with the alphabet - get to W and then start again, over and over.

DS is only 1 and doesn't have any real words yet. DH and DM keep encouraging him, though! "Say, Mum!" No, say Dad! Let him be talked at for a change! (Although DD also talks at DH and DM...)

DS1 was just like this. Also, not sure whether it id due to his ADHD, Dyspraxia or whether he's just a LOUD bugger, but he cannot speak quietly. At all. He had speech therapy and even they failed, if you ask him to whisper he just bellows in a sort of impression of someone whispering . Bless him. When he was little it was Thomas the Tank Engine, then Ben bloody 10 and the Forever Knights for hours on end, then Minecraft, then Terraria...Argh!

It has improved significantly since puberty hit though and he's a quiet, sulky teen a lot of the time now. But when he does decide he's feeling chatty he still talks on and on and on about Geometry Dash and Osu levels and Youtube videos of people who also play these games.

DS2 (7) is quite happy to fill in any gaps in conversation though as he's just the same . And he also talks in his sleep so there's no respite! He's just getting into some of the things that DS1 used to monologue about too, so I get to listen to the same 'conversations' I endured several years ago all over again. I love them to bits and I'm glad they are chatty, confident and sociable, but christ it can be wearing some days...