I feel so bad about complaining about this! I just want to find out whether I'm the only one (and therefore a horrible mother) or whether other people feel like this sometimes!
I love my 4yr old DD to pieces and wouldn't change her for the world, but sometimes she makes me feel so suffocated and claustrophobic! I'm hiding in the loo with the laptop to write this!
She is VERY talkative - literally feels the urge to fill every second of the day with CONSTANT questions (often the same one over and over, which I answer every time until I get sick of it and tell her to stop asking the same sodding question). We've just had lunch and once she had finished hers, the dialogue went like this:
"Are you drinking your drink, Mummy?"
"Are you drinking it all?
"Is it nice?"
"Can I have it?"
"Can I have Cbeebies on?"
"I want Cbeebies on?"
"Can I have some pudding"
"Can I have it now?"
"Now?"
"How many sleeps till my birthday?" (it was last week)
"Is it preschool tomorrow?"
"Can I play upstairs?"
"Are you drinking your drink?"
"Are you?"
"Are you?"
I was answering - although if I paused to answer every single question then I'd probably starve to death or pass out from lack of oxygen!
Any gaps in speech were filled with "Mummy? Mummy? Mummy? Mummy?"
I DO give her a lot of 1:1 during the day, we play a lot together and do things, and she will play alone, although conversing constantly throughout.
If I sit down she will climb on my knee and put her face right into mine, if I protest or try to lift her down she clamps on koala-like. She is on my case CONSTANTLY and can be quite bossy. If she is ever in another room she will pelt me with questions at an increasing volume until I have no choice but to stop what I'm doing and go to her. Most of her questioning has no reason to it, some of the questions have no sensible answer ("Where is the cat going?") or have incredibly obvious answers that she already knows - she asked me what her name was early, just to fill a gap between breaths.
Sorry that became a rant! That feels better! I feel less like I want to scream "JUST SHUT UP!" now!
Please tell me I'm not alone!
AIBU?
to sometimes feel so suffocated by my 4yr old?
iProcrastinate · 05/05/2013 13:31
ds is like this he is 5
he comes into my room in the morning and it starts the questions followed by a lecture and a question and answer session that lasts all day. I do tell him to let me have some quiet time does not last long and it is just me and ds
He caught me mumbling to myself please do shut up 
of course he asked questions about this I lied and told him i was talking to the cat
i had his friends round today and they are the same it was exhausting I am already in bed
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We have got three DDs like this and I am like a limp dishcloth by the time they're finally in bed. I back out of their bedrooms, head going like a nodding dog, repeating, "Yes, yes ok, but it's time for sleep now," whilst they still continue to chunter at me from their beds.
I often go straight to lie on our bed in a practically meditative state, bathing in the blissful silence 
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My dd is still a bit like this at 10!!! Lol 
I am a lone parent so it is all aimed at me.... I keep encouraging her to do a sponsored silence for charity!! But it is because she is very bright, she gets bored easily & wants to know the ins & outs of everything & what's words mean etc.. So it really is like a barrage of questions all the time!!
Roll on bedtime eh?! 
Ohhhhh no, you're not alone.
People think I exaggerate how much DS talks. And then they spend 3 minutes with him and are asking me if he has an off switch!
He is an only (only for a few more weeks) and is almost 6 and sometimes I think my ears go numb.
I make him go outside every day and also time playing upstairs by himself; I'd go mad if I didn't. He gets more TV time than I'd like, but he's so blissfully quiet when he's watching.
My five year old DS asks so many questions too. It's so annoying because I know he just wants to know and isn't deliberately being annoying and is just a chatty little boy, but I live for the day when I can tell him to be 'quiet now, please' and he actually listens and doesn't ask weird questions like if the dog had a past life as a person! 
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