To want to throttle women who talk their kids in REALLY LOUD VOICES

[bbird1]

in public for no apparent reason. It's just bloody annoying. Just pipe down ffs!

My mother is a classic and on the very rare occasion that she's with me and the girls, she must implant another amplifier because God! She's loud. It' doesn't help that my three have very old, very Welsh names (tis a family trait so not being 'different' just for different's sake IYKWIM) and she's so very in the habit of saying precious things loudly. I've taken to shushing her because it's blatant attention seeking, which I hate.

That said, my 5 year old piped up one day and said "Why are you yelling Nana LoonyToonie - we're not deaf you know?!" Ah how I love my kids

My one comfort is that I was too nice to spit on the floor in smiths.

I like the karmic quality mrsdevere. Having two bikes and screaming child experience means he will probably let his son sign his pictures with pooh if he wants to in future.

And arf at 'we're not deaf you know' from 5 year old

"What about parents who ostentatiously say the "right thing" to their bratty kids. In a smarmy, super-sweet voice: "You're not a bad PERSON, but that was a bad THING TO DO", (to child who has grabbed another kid's juice and dumped it on the ground).
"When you hit mommy it makes her feel sad" etc. This kind of thing is just so annoying to me."

- yes, I've heard those types in Sainsbury's.

I must look like a right nutter talking to my baby in the supermarket. I don't talk loudly but i do talk all the same. He just loves it and chats back. What i dislike is people ignoring thier children.

"Oh sorry, just noticed there is controversy on thread. Don't mean to trample across that. By loud parenting I only mean the kind that is produced by an anxious parent using child as nominal auditory receptacle of stuff aimed at satisfying the paranoid-fantasy of being scrutinised by other adults and found to be wanting/found to be a perfect parent, etc."

Got it in a nutshell!

Thank goodness for you articulate and very funny people.

I think chatting to babies is lovely. I just think you are on to a loser if you want them to remember that spinach has more iron in it than celery.

I'm not apologising. DD1 and I chatter away to each other in our excitable and, probably too loud way. That's just the way we are. If I'm just with DD2 then I'll be a lot quieter because like the OP lots of loud chatter drivers her insane. Needless to say I find taking DD2 more relaxing!

There is a teeny one on tv actually.

Have you seen the Disneyland adverts ? Something like 'the magic begins as soon as you tell them'

The children are reading 'you are going to Disneyland' and the mother off camera is saying " you are going to disneyworld...in Florida" for fear that viewers think she is going to Paris.

I love it

I'm loud all the time.......been told this since school.....naturally just very loud, sorry LOL.
It's not deliberate by any means and certainly don't speak in a loud voice because I am showing off or because I am crass!
I get wound up by people speaking so quietly you can't hear them

LOL @ tfMDV. That just about sums it up

I'm never opening my mouth in public again. I'm 'one of those types in Sainsburys'.

I love ALL you Mumsnet people - YOU are the best!

Animation - are you performance mumsnetting?

LostinIndia, me too...

TMDV, I used to chat to DS about all kinds of stuff... still do sometimes, it's more of a comfort thing... Sounds crazy, aye?

I talk to all mine about all kinds of stuff.

I sing and chat and make faces as I go round the supermarket. I dont care what people think.

I dont expect them to pass any tests on nutrition when we get home though.

I think its pretty obvious what this thread is about.

yes

this is called loud parenting often for the benefit of others

Me and DD 3 sometimes have a sing song from the pixar/disney/anyoldshite films on the way round Sainsburys, we are both tone-def and not in slightest entertaining.

It does stop the little witch poppet asking for a load ofshite uneeded purchases.

lol I" want her to recognise organic houmous"

you nobbo

bbird if you don't like what people are posting, maybe it should be you who "fucks off"

"Animation - are you performance mumsnetting?"

Hell no!

I don't think so...

What does that mean?

Are people still trying to insist this thread is about mummies who interact with their children? That we are scoffing at those who simply chat with their babies?

It really isnt you know.

However much you want it to be.

IF you are a person that asks a four year old - 'Freya now do you remember - what is the average temperature of human urine?' loudly, whilst they are peeing in a public toilet - you deserve to have the pee taken out of you.

Mummissinghermind, My mother used to do that with me, then I'd randomly shut up, and when she realised, she'd feel a complete twonk... Even then, I was a wind up...

I just saw that post from the OP.

That was very rude and uncalled for.

You dont own this thread. People can post what they like an if they feel the need to explain why they talk to their children loudly that is fine.
You can still carrying on laughing at those who are just showing off. It needed spoil your fun.

I have a child with SN who require a lot of verbal managing when we go out. I pity the people who were on the same bus as us on at the moment he guessed we were on the way to the Dr Who exhibition. We were on that bus for 40mins and I didnt stop talking to him for more than a few seconds.

TBH anyone that didnt realise he has SN would have to be spectacularly unobservant.

"IF you are a person that asks a four year old - 'Freya now do you remember - what is the average temperature of human urine?' loudly, whilst they are peeing in a public toilet - you deserve to have the pee taken out of you."

"IF you are a person that asks a four year old - 'Freya now do you remember - what is the average temperature of human urine?' loudly, whilst they are peeing in a public toilet - you deserve to have the pee taken out of you."

Do we have a post of the year competition on MN? Cos I think this is up there with "Your Arse, Your Choice"...