to wish my DS would juuuust shuuuut uuuup!

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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.

This has made me laugh so much.. Your DCs are wornderfully clever and inquisitive.

But I would seriously doubt my ability to cope with a non- stop talker. One thing I have learned about myself is that i do like to be alone with my thoughts now and again.

My two watch Outnumbered now. They think a child like Ben or Karen is a hoot. They stress me out, justvwatching.

Great thread, my ds1 (3.10) is v similar to many of the dc on here, constant chatter. He does the driving thing too and what particularly drives me mad is that as he sits rear facing he obv sees a different view to me and I'll often get

Mummy stop! Mummy why did you go through that red light? I didn't ds1. Yes you did mummy I saw you did, it was red mummy, why did you go through a red light? I didn't ds1. Yes you did mummy, it's bad behaviour to go through a red light, why did you do that? But you did mummy, I'm going to tell daddy, you mustn't go through a red light. Mummy stop! That's a red light

Drives me insane and he often tells random strangers that I drive through red lights and they look at me very strangely, arrggh

Haven't read the whole thing but: I'm a squash hamster, cheeks full of squash made me

DS is 4 and can't talk like this, sadly. This isn't me trying to be a downer. I'm lucky if I get "why? why? why?"

Hi, I have found when children I nannied for ask, who lives in that house the best way to stop all the questions is to, say mr and mrs live there with their cats named x & y, describe the cats.. Describe what mr and mrs look like.. Keep going, it bores them and makes them forget the first question!

What?!?! It does ease off any time soon? DS is just 3 & talks ALL. THE. TIME.

Cute & endearing but sometimes I just don't want to think of an answer to "why is that man wearing a hat?"

And that's an easy one

YY to all of this. Ds2 is 5 and never ever ever stops talking and asking questions. I adore him...he is so into everything, but he exhausts me.

Very funny thread. DD is 18 mo and only has a couple dozen words but that doesn't stop her babbling constantly. Seems to expect responses as well when I've no idea what she just said.
I think she's going to be chatty...

I can relate to so much of this thread! Other parents at school marvel about how much I know about what DC1 did at school that day. The truth is, it comes spilling out of her the second I pick her up, and doesn't fecking stop until she passes out from exhaustion and me soon after.

DC2 at 18mo is hot on her heels. He babbles constantly and cannot go five minutes without demanding that I identify his toys, thus:

DS: Pig?
Me: yes, that's right, Igglepiggle
DS: Dais?
Me: good boy, that's Upsy Daisy, yes
DS: hoooooooooooooooo
Me: yes, a Haahoo
DS: Boo
Me: yes, that is, you're right, a Tombliboo
DS: hooooooooooooooo!
Me: yes, another Haahoo
DS: Ma Pa!
Me: Makka Pakka
DS: Ma Pa
Me: yes, another Makka Pakka. Well done, you have two of those. See? one, two.
DS: Hoooooooooooooo!
Me: Haahoo, yes
DS: Boo
DS: Boo
DS: Mama, Boo!
DS: Hooooooooooo
DS: Pig (back to the beginning again)

Ds was another that was due to start speech therapy when he started to speak in full conversation...one of his first questions...why is the sky blue? I let my aunt who was a teacher deal with that one! She was visiting He is now 25 and still talks for England! His year old DS babbles non stop...I think he will soon be facing the pain himself!

I had two like that, never stop talking and asking questions. Now teenagers, my dd is driving her teachers mental. DS seems to be at his worse in the car now. He would redesign the air conditioning in the blackwall tunnel or indepth, conversations on cement lorries as he got older it was philosophical conversations on law etc

He also does a good impression of

YANBU
I have had it today with DS1 (5.3) wittering on and on and on and on and ON and ON. Coming back from school this afternoon was non-stop and I actually told him that I couldn't listen to him any more - so he said he wasn't going to say anything any more ever again. It lasted until we got home (about 5 mins).

Of course it might have been exacerbated by DS2 (5m) whinging all day today and not having a decent nap, thus depriving me of mine...

I just want to run away this evening. Sadly can't. :(