Dear god, DS2 hasn't stopped talking all morning

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DS2 aged 7 has been awake since about 6:30 and had not even paused for breath....I love him dearly, but the never ending stream of chat about Minecraft, Roblox, exercise, the dog, the cat etc is just about to drive me round the bananas.

Can anyone sympathise?

Maybe it's a DS2 thing - DS1 has disappeared upstairs to do his own thing since breakfast (introvert) but DS2 has sat ON me talking seemingly without breath since prising my eyes open at 6something this morning

I used to tell mine that after she'd used up 8 million words her voice would stop working so, if she wanted to continue to be able to talk for the rest of her life, it was best to save some words....worked a treat for about a week!

Also have a 7yo DS2 who doesn't pause for breath 😅😅 Current topic is Lego Ninjago.

Oh god, my 4yo is exactly the same.

Mummy, mummy, mummy, mama, mumma, mum, mum, MUMMY!!! I'm changing my name.

She's spent most of the day talking AT me, my ears have already had enough and it's not even 1pm.

Oh god the 'which is your favourite', then whichever answer you give 'why mummy?'

I'm constantly saying 'one at a time boys' because they're both talking at me at the same time. And this morning it's worse because I have DP's 10 year old here too. The other two haven't actually been too bad but DS2 is incessant'

I had to threaten them with chores to get 5 minutes peace in the kitchen.

When DS1 was 3 I once asked him to please be a little quiet and he looked shocked and said, ‘But where will all my words go??’
Same DS aged 5/6 was on a long Tube journey on the District Line with me. When we got off, the gentleman opposite us, smiled at him and said, ‘you are a very sweet and well behaved kid (he is!) but sometimes you need to take a breath and give your poor mum a break from all the questions.’ 😂😂😂😂😂 DS1 looked most offended and I was cracking up.

DS2 has been watching a lot of rugby and athletics on TV and now wants a ‘talking job’ like the commentators.

Totally. DS is also 7 and he witters about Lego, Star Wars, Harry Potter and Minecraft every waking minute. It’s very wearing.

I hate how they always say 'mum?' at the start to get your attention. Even when you are sat 2 just yards from them. This demands extra unnecessary interaction from the parent.

I remember a 5 hour car journey from London to Manchester. Lots of traffic. DD talked the whole way. Constantly.

When I got to my parents house mum took one look at me and told me to go and sit in the dining room, alone for a while. I just sat in silence for an hour with a cup of tea. Glorious.

Love my mum.

@HuloBeraal, how did you react to that? What a brilliant man, I'd have cracked right up with laughter.

It's a family joke here that DS1's brain doesn't work unless his mouth is moving.

I feel your pain.

I have dd (15) who waffles at me about homework, friendship dramas, sports. Then ds (5) who waffles about everything and anything. He even sat outside the downstairs loo the other day telling me about some YouTube video he had watched. When I opened the door both him and the dog were sat waiting for me. Then dh came in from work and was doing the same thing. Then had just sat down for 10 minutes peace when they had all gone to bed and the dog started mithering me.

I go outside and the Guinea pigs squeak at me, or dhs pet pigeon coos at me. I go to our allotment and the chickens chunter at me and go to the ponies and they all mither to come in or go out or want feeding.

It's constant demands for my attention. Absolutely exhausting.

I remember this with DSD; I couldn’t even think straight some times. Now at 11 it’s hard to get a word out of her some days.

Oh god, I sympathise. DS has had various ‘obsessions’ since the age of 2. Dinosaurs was the first one, he’d watch everything, learn the names of every damn creature that ever set foot on the Planet X-millions of years ago, then talk non-stop about them 😳
There have been various other topics over the years. Now it’s minecraft. He will literally talk for hours. It’s worse if you’re in a confined space such as the car. He gets offended if I try to put music or the radio on too
Like a pp, I zone out and make the right noises, but I’m reading with dread about being ‘tested’ on what they’ve droned on about said. He’s 7 now, and I know that it’ll stop one day and I’ll just get grunted at, so I’m trying to tolerate it!

I should show this thread to my friend to help her not feel so alone.

Her DS is 25 and ASD. She gets the continuous stream of chat from morning to night, only as he is older his is about Brexit ('what do you think will happen, what do you think Boris will do, what do you think will happen, what will Boris do,' on loop, on repeat from 6.30 am).

She is at her wits end. I tell her to put headphones on (he doesn't care if she's listening or replying or not, he just talks, even to an empty room). But she doesn't.

I’ve been away for work for 4 days this week. DS clearly had a backlog of stuff to tell me as yesterday he essentially sat on me and talked at me for a solid 12 hours. I very much sympathise.

This makes me ROFL, having a backlog of things to catch up on!

The seemingly never ending stream of consciousness is a combination of things to talk about combined with trying new words out and stringing sentences together.

OP enjoy it while it lasts, the minute they hit teens, I guarantee you, they overnight click into 'grunt-mode' and it's hard to cajole a 'g'morning' out of them!

We have a word for thay kind of talk - 'beeping' . And a saying for years of DD and DS 'If it ain't sleepin', it's beepin''

I have a friend staying with her kids this weekend. They never stop talking. It's relentless and it's driving my whole family crazy

I used to fall asleep on the sofa with DS2 talking at me and he would occasionally nudge me to get a response and just carry on. Now he's a teenager and often we hear him continuously talking (shouting) at his friends on the xbox, but at least it's not at me anymore!

Apparently I was like this until about 11. My poor mother... An elderly man sitting behind us at a cricket match told her I put him in mind of Tennyson 's brook for some reason . Couldn't work out what she was laughing at at all.

My two chatter boxes never developed grunt mode!!!

how does escaping to loo help - when dc were young they would either (a) follow me in before I could shut door or (b) stand outside door & talk through it (if it was locked) -always remined me of "five minutes peace"
www.amazon.co.uk/Five-Minutes-Peace-Large-Family/dp/1406330124?tag=mumsnetforu03-21
as stated dc than loose all the speech they had entering adolescence but regain it some degree as they enter adulthood

DS (8yo) has verbal diarrhoea.
I told ds he had verbal diarrhoea when he was about 5yo. he got his revenge a few weeks later when we were in a room full of people and announced loudly "I've got diarrhoea again, haven't I, mummy?"

Have you given piriton? Ds gets hyperactive off it, and the main symptom is a never ending train of words.

DD used to have something we called "The Why Cascade".

"Mummy.... why curious child question?"
"Well, mumblemumble age appropriate explanation."
"Yes, but why pick up part of explanation."
"Well, mumblemumble age appropriate explanation."
"Yes, but why pick up part of explanation."
"Well, mumblemumble age appropriate explanation."
"Yes, but why pick up part of explanation."
"Well, mumblemumble age appropriate explanation."

...Repeat until "Yes, but why pick up part of explanation."
"IT JUST IS, OK?"

I loved having a bright inquisitive child but coming up with increasingly minute explanations for things like why baked beans are red or why trees turn brown in autumn was bloody wearing, I do remember that.

My mum said it was some sort of wish to engage rather than actual search for knowledge.

My 12 yr old dd not only talks constantly but also tosses in dance moves. “ Mum, Mum, watch this! I just made this up!”

Sounds like he needs friends with the same interests.