to want my 4yo to stop talking?

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He's amazing. He's so intelligent and funny. But he talks incessantly. Running commentaries on the various things that pop into his head and if I don't respond verbally within 0.05 of a second he repeats it, over and over.
I think he's said "mummy" more than 1,000 times today.
Is this usual for a 4yo? Is it just me whose ears are bleeding by noon?

My 9 year old has only recently started talking.

And oh bloody hell is he making up for lost time!!!!!

My 3 yo woke me up to tell me her mirror (in her bedroom) was a "bit grubby".

"Have you cleaned it since last month?"
"It's like you haven't cleaned it in a few whiles"
"Don't do it with a tissue that's just DUSTING"

It was 4am. FML.

I live hearing mine chat although drives me mad sometimes. Sometimes I get annoyed and say "I've already explained why" - I figure I'm teaching them social niceties.

*love

Yes . Then they stop talking to you when they reach teenagedom and you have to extract every single sulky word out of their mouth

Only if you're lucky. Mine's 18 now and still goes on and on and on... The minute she walks through the door, the entire day's trivial annoyances get unloaded onto lucky old me!

Oh yes, I love my own company, and reading quietly. Or I did!

Both of mine 7&4 are non stop chatters. I feel seriously frazzled by it every evening.

But yes, they are hilarious, and lovely, and I am grateful they can talk.

for those with non talking children.

My 3 year old literally never stops talking and if you don't respond she repeats it until you do (normally I get fed up after 5x of 'mummy where's the sun gone?' and respond).

Her latest is to say 'why you not talking to me?' when Im trying to talk to DH or 'can I say scuse me please?' after drumming into her to say excuse me rather than barging in constantly...so of course we have to say 'yes?' as she's doing what we've asked after all...and then we get...

'Can I say scuse me?'
'Yes'
'Scuse me'
'What did you want to say?'
'Ummmm...........I fink so that's a tree fink so....'

Whilst I appreciate having a bright, vocal chatty preschooler, it is completely incessant and quite literally drives me bonkers. So....YABU!

Mine's the same. She's particularly talkative when she's meant to be asleep. Yesterday at bedtime it was "Daddy, what's femininity?" I'm interested to see how her reception teacher deals with her.

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I mean YANBU....two glasses of wine consumed to recover from said overly vocal three year old who threw a whopping tantrum just before bed

I do appreciate the fact that he can and does talk, and never wanted to suggest otherwise or offend.
Maybe it's because I'm quite the introvert by nature that I find it sp draining some days.

I can sympathise. My four-year-old is like this too! DH often asks him to stop talking and says he can't concentrate (apparently he was the same at that age - I was much quieter). I can't believe I have produced such a loud and talkative child.

It has its wearing moments but I do like his chatter. He is so inquisitive and curious about everything. Although it is difficult to explain the nature of the universe when you are sleep-deprived and also trying to clear up and get the dinner ready.

Oh god me too.

It's sooooo tiring I feel awful but please DS be quiet! Especially when eating then maybe each meal wouldn't take so long

BabyHaribo DS talks so much I end up reheating every dinner because it's gone cold by the time he stops to draw a breath and eat a mouthful.

Dd questions everything

Me: oh it's raining.
Dd: is it?

Me: you can't go to school because it's Saturday
Ds: can't i?

Me: I've bought you a sweetie
Dd: in tesco?
Me: yes
Dd: oh and did you see the sweeties and look at them and think I'll get Dd one?
Me: erm...yes
Dd: and then did you try and think which one Id like and you weren't sure?
Me: well I just got X because you always like those
Dd: yes but I like Y and Z did you have to think about those ones too?
Me: yes I suppose
Dd: did you stand still and look at them all?
Me: for a second yes.
Dd: is a second the opposite of a minute
Me: well no there are 60 seconds in a minute
Dd: what's the opposite of a second?
Me: there isn't really an opposite of a second
Ds: why?
Me: here take your sweet, take all the sweets, just please go

I feel your pain. And unlike his brothers my 5yo isn't interested in the TV so won't zone out then. Ironically he was a really late talker...

Oh Lordy yes. My 4 year old never ever stops talking. She ramps it up at about 6pm as husband is coming home and does the 'skuse me' thing so we have to answer her, anything to stop us talking to each other.
'Where did the first person come from?'
'Play doctors with me and you say next patient and I say my name is X and you say what's wrong and I say this and you do a check up and I have to hop and...'

School will exhaust her right?

YANBU. I sometimes (ok, quite often) just have to say 'DD, please just stop talking'. She lets her dinner go cold because she seems incapable of using her mouth for anything other than a running commentary on the inner workings of a four year old's brain. The only time she is quiet is when she is asleep. It's been a LONG summer. I feel your pain.

My youngest is actually hoarse, I mean physically hoarse going to bed some nights. He literally squeaks goodnight(and then some more) due to his "chatting" all day. Sometimes ds1 actually asks him to "please just stop talking". He also can't sit still for one minute. I love him but there are days when just 5 full minutes of quiet would be bliss. But he did say I looked fabulous today and didn't need anymore make-up he wanted crisps but I'll take it

Yabvu in the nicest possible way. Da 3.7 years has a big speech delay, I woukd love him to speak properly and to hear him all the time.

Yes my DS (4 yrs almost 5) is a yabberer. It starts from the instant he wakes and goes on ALL DAY. It's incessant, and draining at times, but also his questions can be astonishing, astute and I am amazed by his perception and curiosity. I try and remind myself of the latter point and savour it when my ears are bleeding!

And if you did you'd be on here complaining with everyone else! Because as wonderful as speech development is it is wearing and drives you crazy. Non speech development is wearing and drives you crazy too, in different ways. Neither scenario is wrong to be pissed off and frustrated with it.

aero and all parents of non verbal kids.

Lately I've got ds to pretend to be a mouse, just so he at least squeaks quietly for a few mins! Mostly I love his non stop babble. He interrogated several people on our walk yday. They were mostly amused but some young workmen weren't sure how to answer his questions. Looked a bit scared.

My mum tells the stories about how l never shut up (as a child) it came with the massive expectation the she would join in too:
"You tend to be Aunty Gladys, tending to be Granny Vera...tending to be me!"