How do I stop my 3year old shouting

[Motherofmonsters]

DS shouts as loud as he can and it goes right through me. When we're out and he shouts I tell him if he continues we will go home. If he's outside I say we will have to go inside, this works.

However when he's in the house what can I do. Shouting at him is a bit counter productive but sometimes he shouts so continuously loud and I end up doing it.

It started with his Baby sister as she's a shouty baby so he started copying her and now it's ingrained in him

Is he shouting instead of speaking?

I'd let him shout outside, so you can try and reduce the volume inside. In fact I'd be taking him to woods and fields so he can blow off a bit of steam. There are plenty of places where there aren't many people to disturb outside. Not shout at you though. But it sounds like he needs to be noisy somewhere. You notice at school if the dc have being doing something very quiet that they can be extra rowdy at playtime.

Have you had his hearing checked?

You just need to keep reinforcing to him that he needs to use an inside voice of whatever you choose to call it every time it happens. Talk back to him very quietly and calmly so he needs to focus and listen to you.

He's just shouting, if he actually wants to talk to me he'll talk normally.

I'll find somewhere where he can shout, it's so busy everywhere at the moment even in the woods with tourists down but should quieten down soon. It's absolutely deafening shouting so I don't want him doing when there is lots of people around.

I don't think he has any problem hearing, he can hear me if I whisper and does talk at a normal volume when he's not being a foghorn.