Oh crikey; dd2 is getting chattier

[lucysmam]

And chattier

Right now she's talking herself through building something or other on Minecraft .

She fills every waking second with random conversation or singing along to musicals.

Anyone else have a super chatty child?

Mine is three and has no internal monologue - she constantly narrates her actions. I drives me batty but I try not to let it show.

Some children don’t own vocal cords and are unable to have the ability to be chattier, OP, you should count every word she speaks at you as a golden blessing. You should be hanging onto every word she says.

It (or similar) was bound to be said at some point in the thread, I thought I’d get it in early.

Gee, thanks @RonnieBarkingMad

Maybe I needed in the title too

Looks like a would have been a good idea to include in my post too

Very well aware some children struggle to, or are unable to, talk - I'm on a speech and language therapy degree after an interest fired by having one child with communication needs.

However, DD1 does not ever stop talking and it's just a constant stream of wittering on - you go to bed feeling physically bludgeoned by the English language. However much I marvel at her linguistic abilities, and those of her verbally dyspraxic sibling who has made up for the time she was unable to speak since she cracked it (it's still not 100% "natural" sounding speech but it's all intelligible)... I'm still fully allowed to find it incredibly wearing by the end of the day. Her teacher has now given up trying to stem the stream of chuntering on and just rolls with it.

She's currently trying to decide if the dog or Usain Bolt would win over 100m or one of the boys in her class.

Same here.

DD is 6 and she just never. ever. EVER. shuts up.

It's constant & incessant. Question after question after question. Any arts and crafts she does she speaks right the way through it, if she watched TV she tells us what's happening on the TV EVEN THOUGH WE CAN SEE IT.

There is no end in sight.... I feel I've been verbally assaulted by a 6 year old every day for 2 straight weeks 😭

Oh wow, I thought it was just mine. He had delayed language and I wanted so much for him to talk. Now he absolutely never ever shuts up. It's constant wittering.

Oh god I remember this stage so well. When my daughter was about 3 I got so desperate that I set the timer on the cooker and told her if she kept quiet until the alarm went off she could have a treat. I didn't set it for very long, just a minute or two. She couldn't do it.

My 9 year old talks constantly. Whenever somebody meets her they ask me afterwards (out of earshot of couse) 'does she ever stop talking?'

@Natsku 9?!?!

You mean I have 3 more years of this constant talking??? Dear lord!!

At least 3 years. I don't foresee the chattiness ending until she reaches the teenage sulking years.

Good luck chaps, mine is 20. Chats, hums and sings and musicals constantly

Home from Uni and clearly isn't going to let that stop her choir practices!

I got told in a lecture that the incessant stream of self-commentating and witter stops about age 12. I may have cried.

This is hands down the hardest part of lockdown for me. I actually thought I'd be fine, since I'm very much an introvert, but I neglected to consider that I'm locked down with other people! I have a hyperactive 3yo DS who spends his every waking moment impersonating a police officer, either human or canine (the only thing that varies is whether he's barking or shouting "stop in the name of the law!" - must thank DD for teaching him that), plus 8yo DD who has probable ASD and definite verbal diarrhoea and literally cannot stop talking even when asked to, then a husband whose use of zoom consists of yelling into the computer so loud I'm pretty sure his colleagues 10 miles away can hear him without the need for bloody video conferencing.

you go to bed feeling physically bludgeoned by the English language

^This!!

I have a wittering 10yr old DS. DH keeps telling me I'll miss it when he's a grunting, monosyllabic teenager, but honestly, the demanding attention and chatting on about absolutely nothing is exhausting.

It's ok. By about 13 you just get grunts, shrugs & mumbling for three years

@iklboo I have a 13 year old dd as well...some days she either sings musicals from the second she gets out of bed, or talks about musicals endlessly

I wouldn't mind a bit of being just grunted at right now. They're currently in the garden instructing each other on the best way to play catch without the ball going over the neighbour's fence I'd shut the window or door but then they'd come in to find out why I've done it!

My DS is 4 and talks all day, every day! I counted 50 questions in 2 hours the other day!

@lucysmam - ah. Ours is a DS. Definitely Teenageius Gruntius

2 of my 4 are incessant talkers.

I still remember my HV telling me to narrate the baby's day to help them develop speech, I would never have taken the advice if I realised they would pick up on it themselves

My 7 year old never shuts up. I actually want to cry, some days

DD1, when I finally lost it last night and told her I didn't need to know every single fruit she picked on Animal Crossing, took off to play a game - and had a conversation with a punnet of fucking grapes. She can even sustain a long conversation with Alexa, and in her sleep!

Oh god yes my 8 year old. He never stops talking.

Once we were taking a trip to my mums house which is about 200 miles away. I timed him, 40 minutes into the drive he hadn’t even paused

6 year old DS fills every waking second with talking, questions or singing.
Has to get involved in EVERY conversation. Has to have constant interaction. Had to narrate every aspect of his life. Has to ask constant inane questions. Cannot entertain himself.
I love him immeasurably but God, I crave silence. House is too small and there are no good hiding places

DD age 4 has a bunch of imaginary friends she talks to. She also repeats what DH has said like this:
All sitting at dining table
DD: daddy shall we go in the garden afterwards?
DH: Sure
DD: Mummy, daddy says we can go in the garden after lunch