To think all the incredibly talkative chidlren should be rehomed in groups?

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Honestly it's just so exhausting, I'm convinced dc 4 would be much happier living with a zillion other over talkative children...

So send her to live in some sort of commune with adults who love children that do.not.stop.talking.at.all.ever?

Is there room for a 2yo? He's only little.

He never stops. From the minute he wakes until the minute he sleeps. It's a constant stream of inane babble.

He's being assessed for ASD and his speech is very, very echolaic so it's flipping nonsense too!

Now the advantage to that is that he doesn't want an actual conversation, in fact doesn't notice or care if you're listening BUT every few sentences he decides he needs you to repeat what he's just said.

So it goes
"I'd better call fireman Sam"
"I'd better call fireman Sam"
"I'd better call fireman Sam
"I'd better call fireman Sam"
"I'd better call fireman Sam"
"Yes, I heard you. You'd better call fireman Sam!"
"I'd better call fireman Sam"

It can be trying.

And the word "mum" just sets me off now:

"Mum"
"Yes, darling?"
"mum"
"Yes?"
"Muuuuuum"
"Yes, what is it darling?"
"Muuuuuuuum, mummy, mummy, mummy......."

Ad infinitum.

I feel for her future husband

Sign my oldest up- He's 11 and already has become a "loud parent" to my younger two.

We go anywhere as a family and he uses his loudest voice to ask my youngest two relentless questions and tries to educate them. It is very sweet until it isn't.

The 3 yr old has gotten to the point where he just looks at my oldest and says "Stop talking to me!" I think I laughed for an hour after hearing that exchange.

Randall I feel your pain! Two dcs both AS, ds makes unintelligible noises whilst dd talks incessant drivel constantly but if interrupted by anything like a cough sneeze or ds making a noise she will start her sentence from the beginning many times over. She is also incredibly quiet and I have crappy hearing so I end up shouting whaaaat?? Incessantly. Dh says one day he will bury us all under the patio just to get a rest

Random on some journeys I only allow Ds to talk if we are at red lights. Well I try....
He even talks in his sleep

The other day,in a fit of bad parenting, I exasperatedly muttered, do you ever stop talking? (it was kind of a rhetorical question). She said, 'yes, at night, when I'm asleep.' In all seriousness. I kid you not.

It's nice to know I'm not alone though.

Dd1 is 17, she can look after them all - eldest of 4, very good big sister, very responsible, etc. Also never shuts up. I've fallen asleep whilst being talked at by her before. Have also told her that if you are talking to someone and the other person hasn't spoken for 20 minutes, then it's a monologue not a conversation.

I talked non-stop as a child, apparently. My mum and dad survived remarkably well because they are profoundly deaf. Deafness is also a bonus when coping with tantruming children. I can volunteer DM and DF as the adults to run the group. As an added extra, you can have my 3 DC, all of whom can talk (usually simultaneously) until my ears bleed and I am begging for quiet.

Forget the home/commune, lets get chatting about nonsense in to the Olympics and it an be a training camp.

My DD (11) talks non-stop.

At a recent parents evening , her teacher said that she whitters at him constantly and makes a bee line for home every morning. Made me proper smile

*him

I have two. DS1 is 6 and his specialist subject is Super Mario, although does like a wee Frozen singalong too. DS2 is 3 and still quite unintelligible but loud with it.
I have been known to tell them to be quiet as mummy has to do hard driving now.
Poor DD, she's only 8 months - sometimes I catch her staring at them in awe.

Dc3 is like this. They went away on 2 school trips at Easter & for the first time I truly understood the benefits of boarding school... She's year 8 so I've missed the boat (& I don't really want her to go).

I'm sure they'll manage quite well without adults, Random. I imagine they all share the...ahem...'leadership traits... That my darling child has.

This is my DD to a T!

Another one who narates her whole life. I give her her tablet to play on and instead of being normal and burying her head in it and ignoring the world, she tries to engage me. She talks at me about it.

At about 11am yesterday (I was particularly restrained) I said to her 'Switch off the words, I don't need to hear any more'.

Needless to say, she didn't.

Yes I need a place, one very, very talkative child, who will not be ignored. Also talks in her sleep, I can't remember her not talking.

Draining.

Yes. With the talkative aduts. One of SW's frineds who talks a lot and says nothing can have a seat on the bus.

Singing. I see someone has mentioned singing. I can't decided singing noise is worse than random chatter noise

Decide if..

Yes I have 2 for you. Both were tongue tied as babies, I often wonder whether havin them clipped unleashed the unstoppable stream of verbage?

It's not just the noise that comes OUT it's the fact that they require responses too. Like in the car;
Mummy? Mummy?
Yes darling?
Guess what?
What?
Guess what I saw?
What?
Guess what I saw out the window?
I don't know what it's called, a big thing, what's it called?
I don't know dear?
What was it mummy? Mummy? Muuuummy?

Etc throughout whole journey.
And then there's the RULES. The very long and complicated rules which accompany the narrative of even simple tasks, the detailed explanations of "first we do this then we do that".

Maybe we could make some money by loaning them to the security services? A few hours enforced listening could be a powerful interrogation technique.

I'm in.

DS1 - 4 1/2. Never shuts up. Not for one single second. Also prone to random bursts of yelling for no apparent reason.

"Can we go and see a castle? I'd like to see a castle. Can we go and see A CASTLE A CASTLE RAAAAAARGH!"

DS2 - 2 Also never shuts up. Remarkably coherent except when he decides to explain something at length.

"I wanna urghsknkn s fnfndsds;m sdisdnsindisne aaaaarrrgh roandn nkndnsk ey udnddnnd yes?"

He then looks at you expectantly, and if you don't pick the correct generic response - "Yes, you do that" "really?" "you're probably right", he says the whole thing again. And again. And again.....

No sign of the bus yet.
Do you think the driver has driven into a wall?
Maybe it will pick him up from school.

Can I suggest that high pitched whistling when the talking ceases (for a minute or two) is MUCH worse than singing. Even when the singing is singing the same (wrong) words from the same bit of the song and never making it off that verse....

Its the detailed explanations of the latest minecraft / wii lego adventure that gets me....

Gaffa tape?

My niece (14) is like this. She speaks at the top of her voice and it is a constant torrent of words. She never pauses for breath. It's made worse as she lives with GPs and they are both deaf so she has learned to speak up.

When I see her she just cannot turn down the volume - her version of a whisper is a bellow that would normally signal a ship leaving dock.

She was skiing in Austria a few weeks ago. I haven't heard of any avalanches in that area but...

Oh yes you can have DS1. He's 5.
Mam?
Yes
Mam?
Yes
Mam, mam, mam?
Yes DS1 I said Yes
Who would win between a tiger and a leopard?
Probably a tiger
Why?
Because a tiger is bigger.
What about if they were up a tree?
Well maybe a leopard then.
Why?
Because they are good in trees.
Tiger would still be stronger though so how would leopard win?
Mmmm
How would it Mam, tell me, tell me, tell me. MAM
Oh maybe the leopard would climb up higher and then jump down and knock the tiger out of the tree.
Would that kill the tiger?
Mmm (trying to guess right answer)
Would it? Mam would it, would it?MAAAM
Yes probably
NOOO I DON'T WANT THE TIGER TO DIE
OK it wouldn't, it would just run away.
Ok (pause) who would win between a dragon and a T Rex?

And on, and on