to wish my DS would juuuust shuuuut uuuup!

[uggbug]

He is 3.10. He talks from the minute he gets up until the second he goes to bed. I have just given him some tinned tropical fruit salad and sat down to MN in peace. Oh no. It went something like this...'what's this Mummy? is it mango Mummy? We have this at pre-school mummy. What's this Mummy? Papaya? What does papaya do to you Mummy? Does it make your muscles strong Mummy? Does it stop you getting ill Mummy? What's this Mummy? Pineapple? What does pineapple do.....' I actually just sat here and wrote 'shut. up' in the search bar. Just to make myself feel better. SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Shut up.

Look at it this way- in 10 years time you will be lucky to get so much as a grunt out of him!

StickEm - is your DS the Annoying Orange?

Ohhhh, i really feel for you. My DS is nearly 7 and i think has talked non stop since he was 18 months! He has the most amazing imagination and whilst i do love hearing about it, i do sometimes wish he would put a sock in it....

They were doing mime in drama club today. DS then compensated by talking the ENTIRE way home.... our journey is half an hour long...

The worst thing is when he forgets what he was saying and suddenly says 'what was i talking about mum?'. This usually happens when i've zoned out and i have no idea what he's talking about anymore- i think he's trying to catch me out

I have to admit, we do sometimes ask him for 5 minutes of quiet. I feel cruel doing it, but it's so unbearable sometimes.

All the kids sound wonderful. You will look back on these chats one day and shed a little nostalgic tear

Yep...my dd 8yrs also doesn't stop talking... in a 2 hr car ride, the longest gap between gabbing was 30 seconds....

I admit, my mind often can't keep up when she goes on and on....

I feel your pain and in fact just stomped off to the kitchen muttering " just be quiet for five fkn minutes"
DD is a chatterbox and goes non stop from the minute she opens her eyes, DS is a Velcro baby and a bit of a whinge at the moment.
But, they'll go to bed in a few minutes and then I'll miss them, what's that all about?

Mine is also super chatty but is 2.6 so also v contrary and argumentative.

Mummy? What's that?
What's what sweetie? That tree?
No, that noise.
It's the dishwasher.
No it isn't. It's a wild animal I fink. What kind of animal mummy? MUMMY?
Ummm, a cat?
NO! Not a cat. Fink it is the dishwasher.
Sigh

it does get better! When they are teenagers they sit in their room, plugged into computer/phone and never speak to you at all! And then you will look back fondly at all those cute little questions....!!

Oh YANBU! I have one too, he's 5 now and still NEVER EVER SHUTS UP. It can actually send me into a weird trance. "WAtch Mummy, am I running so fast I'm a blur? Am I ? What is a blur? I know a metaphor for a snowdrop, a soft white slipper, did you hear? Do you know what a bud is? sometimes they're red, sometimes green. I'm a meerkat, do you like meerkats? I'm your pet meerKat hunting for insects, look Mummy" Arggggghhhhh!

Mine is nearly 6 and he hasn't drawn breath since he was just gone 1! he even talks in his sleep. The only times he's not yammering are when he's watching Top Gear or Garfield.

Thank god i'm not alone. YA so NBU, it's bloody exhausting! I don't think mine is capable of silence for even a millisecond.

The questions start before i've even opened my eyes and continue until i'm at the bottom of the stairs after lights out.
And half of them are unanswerable, eg. how long is a worm?! But his favourites always start with 'what would happen if....?' I get dozens of those a day.

Thankfully bed time is almost here, 45 more minutes until that elusive golden silence

Excellent tip re you tube binfull

uggbug, your DS sounds most entertaining but I do understand about he relentless nature of his highly intelligent questions! As a childminder, I would dearly love to have his company all day. As a mother, I know that it would occasionally drive me insane. My 4 year old DS is much the same. Mostly I engage with him, but sometimes I do park him in front of cbeebies so that I can have the first cup of coffee of the morning in peace.

It :) hahaha :)

He sounds thoroughly beautiful - take some audio recordings as they will be wonderful to listen to in years to come :)

He sounds just like my 5yo DS, especially the constant "mummy" at the beginning of every sentence. And if I don't respond to every single thing he says, and it has to be a satisfactory response, he'll just repeat himself until I do.

I have a 7 year old who never shuts up. Fortunately, she's at school 6 hours a day so her lucky teacher gets a turn too.

Since she got home at 5 (after school club) I've had what felt like a 2 hour 20 minute monologue on Moshi Monsters, a blow by blow account of what X said to Y at lunch time at school today, a million questions about what I was cooking for dinner and a debate about whether she should wear tights and skirt or trousers tomorrow

I've packed her off for a shower before I was forced to gag her

ds 6ish at the time talked the whole way from london to the other side of devon I think he breathed but I'm not sure I've dreaded long car journeys ever since...I think I ended up with my powers being ice, my animal a zebra ? my element something etc etc... am tempted to invest in a dvd player/ds just for some peace ...he too was up for speech therapy at 2 1/2ish..ha ha (ears bleeding as he hasn't stopped since school)

My 4 year old is the same. Constant stream of words and noise. DS2 has no chance of ever talking (just turned 2 and babbles and says some words) as DS1 just decides to talk over him all the time.

At the moment it's all about Star Wars and space, which I love, so it's bearable. Other people find it a struggle as he just bombards them with Star Wars facts. The poor guy who came to measure up for fitting a new boiler was gobsmacked - he said he was hilarious and we should put him on tv. I sat there with a face like this--> hissing at DS1 to be quiet. He gets it from his father who talks for the sake of talking sometimes! After a day of both of them it's a wonder DS2 and I don't have bleeding ears!

my DS is 13 now and happily playing on the xbox with headphones on yapping to his cousin. Praise be that he has reached this age. He never shuts up usually. Wants to know everything. I can remember asking him 'to just shut up for a minute as he was making Mummy's ears bleed'. and then having to put up with the questions about ears, and bleeding and and and aarrrgghhhh.

so I know how you feel and how much it pushes you over the edge after a long day. We used to have 'the cup of tea rule' as in Mum doesn't not work until she has had that first morning cup of tea and she needs peace and quiet for it to take effect.

I have a chatterbox 8 year old DS who was like this from, well, a baby really.

I know what you mean and sympathise :)

This happened in our car 2 days ago:

DS: Mommy you know the other day I

DS: Mommy you know the other day I

DS: Mommy you know the other day I

DS: Mommy you know the other day I

DS: Mommy you know the other day I

Me: Okay just tell me what happened don't start over.

DS: Umm I forget now

We recently were in the car for 10 hours - he talked the entire time. The. Entire. Time. Thankfully he didn't have a fit of hiccups then.

Mine started talking with a couple of words at 9 months. He's now nearly 5 and hasn't drawn breath since.

He even talks in his sleep.

Actually, the only time he is briefly quiet is if I ask him what he's done at school. He'll pause and then say "can't remember" and continue a monologue about something else.

I have a teenager who rarely talks these days and a pre-teen who doesn't stop from the minute he wakes till the minute he goes to bed - he often wakes up finishing a conversation we were having the night before - he is 11 so don't expect it to stop anytime soon OP lol

My ds2 (4) even talks in his bloody sleep!
I never escape :)

Mimsy at least mine stops during sleep - it's how I tell he has dropped off.