AIBU to gag my four year old?

[BellaOfTheBalls]

Or at least feed him some sort of very large or chewy sweet in hope of getting some semblance of peace?

I love him desperately. He makes me laugh every day. But he talks a lot. And I mean from the moment his eyes open until bedtime.

Today it is raining, I am concentrating hard on MN trying to work and he has not stopped yammering all morning. We've made a cake and the "is it cooked/is the cake ready/has it cooled/can we put the icing on/why is the cake not ready?" has been incessant.

Curse you school holidays. Curse you to hell.

Yes it's incessant. Utterly, mind-numbingly incessant. I say this as a cm and she's not even mine . We have made salt dough today, it's in the oven baking right now but the questions on how to decorate/paint/make etc after it's cooled are endless. Damn the rain!

Have you considered ear plugs?

Works like a dream.

If we're all agreed on gagging I'd like to put one on my 9mo. Just for the grizzly, moaning bit before bath and bed and only when DH is away. I consider that fair criteria.

YANBU. Perhaps we could get our heads together to develop a "safe" gag and market it in some way that makes out we're developing our children's listening skills or some such bollocks. My 19 month old has a lot of words but insists on using sentences which are totally incomprehensible. He will then repeat said sentences over and over and over and over expecting a reply beyond my stock "yes" or "mmm" despite the fact that I have no idea at all what he's blathering on about. After the fifth "shmurgle fal flurgle?" I want to remove either his voice box or my own head just to make it stop. I am delighted, of course, that he is so keen to talk but....gahhhhhh!!!!

One of those giant gobstoppers they used to make when I was a child would probably do the trick.

My child has no sight or speech but I guess your child right now is the other temporary extreme. Must be annoying but in one wsy you're better off, it'll pass . I love chatty kids.

You made me giggle. My DS3, now 14, talked constantly as a little boy. He used to drive me crazy. He talked from sun up to sun down. Every teacher/parent meeting I was told he talked all the time. He talked for talking sake and wasn't necessarily talking to anybody. He did/and still does sometimes all his thinking out loud.

I use to turn the radio up really loud in the car just so I didn't have to hear him talk (such a bad mother).

He has gotten a bit quieter - now locks himself in his bedroom and talks to his friends over the internet all the time and barely talks to me.

Enjoy the chatter while you can - he'll stop talking to you soon enough. lol

Count yourself lucky...

I have a non stop chattering 6 yr old DD and 2 x nearly 4 year old Ds's ....

Quite i never get a minutes peace.

YANBU.

I tuck my Ipod into my bra and have the earpiece in the ear away from my noisy chatterboxes (8,5,4) .

My 7 yr old DS has constant verbal diarrhoea and he's away for a week with his cousins, ITS SO QUIET!!

I kind of switch off coz most of the time it's drivel, but I can respond in the right places.

I knew I'd miss his constant noise before he went. The TV is permanently on at the moment.

YANBU

DS(4) had his first day at a new nursery today. First thing they said when I picked him up? "He's very chatty, isn't he?"

My DS (4) chats all the time as well, and gets more chatty the closer it gets to bedtime in the hope it will distract me, however it just makes me want the time to go faster so I can have some peace and quiet!