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?

CassieBear - No speech is much worse than too much speech. Ds self harms and is aggressive because he cannot communicate. He has been in pain for months because doctors don't believe us and he cannot tell them how much he hurts. Imagine what it is like watching your child bite themselves till they bleed and their arms and legs are covered in bruises from the biting. I can see the op is being lighthearted but thinking no speech and too much speech are comparable is wrong.

Has anyone else got a 'whyer'
Dd is nearly 3 it drives me nuts. It's everything!!

Dd: mummy are you driving?
Me: yes dd
Dd: why are you driving?
Me: as we are on our way home from nursery dd
Dd: why are we in our way home
Me: because the day is nearly over dd: why is the say over?
Me: because the moon will be out soon so it's bedtime
Dd: why is the moon out at nights
Me: it's always out at night
Dd: why
Me: it just is dd
Dd: yeah but why
Me: it I don't know dd (quite Life)
Dd: why don't you know mummy?

ARRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH I feel like saying because I did so 50 million times. A day!

Ds1 is non stop. sigh

Ahhhh, I'm glad it's not just my 4 year old then! Most of the time it is adorable and I live listening to his witterings but the other day I had a FOUR HOUR monologue about snakes.....needed that evening!!

I wanted my 4 year old to stop talking. He never did, and he's 7 next month.

Mine had way more TV and tablet time yesterday than any four year old should. All in an attempt to shut up the incessant stream of drivel dropping from his lips.

It's constant, even when I'm not in the room because I've run to a different room to escape and isn't about anything.

I can cope with the talking while playing where he's interacting with the toys, but it's the "Mummy... Knock knock" which has to be followed up with something completely unfunny and then the giggling and the final "I was joooooooking". I could kill DBIL for introducing him to jokes...

I have one of these and a 20mo who is rapidly catching up. It's like this in my house, except when they're watching TV.

I have one, Noble. He's 4 too. I also resort to 'I don't know'. It doesn't stop the questions though, sadly...

Short post from me as I can hear the questions have already started from DS's room. 'Is it morning time Mummy? Can I get up now? Is it time to get up?'

Not only does DS talk pretty incessantly (3.5) but he also really objects to me and DH having an adult conversation. He interjects with "What are you talking about? Are you talking about me?" And if the answer is no, he says "Stop talking boring stuff!". Then we have to get back on topic: I.e. Power Rangers weapons, Black holes, that time when he fell over and cried.

op Im with you, I've got a 4 1/2 year old and 3 year ds's I get it from both of them from minute they wake till they go to bed. They constantly get louder to try and talk over the other one my head hurts most days ( I have had experience of a quiet child my eldest never spoke or when he did it was very quiet. secretly I don't mind the chatter but not as often would be nice some days)

dd1(9) and dd2(8) are chat chat chatterers, it is lovely and exhausting at the same time - they bicker at the same time, ask questions at the same time, sing different songs at the same time.

Ds (5) is non verbal, he makes noises (I have head 'uh uh uh, screech, uh, uh, uh, eeee'....since 5 this morning!) but no words. He uses an electronic talker and signs - which is also exhausting, because it takes a lot of effort for him to be understood. Sometimes it can take ages for us to understand what he is trying to say to us, and then we get the word and have no idea why he is saying it to us! It took about a week to work out that he was signing 'wolves' to us, then another 2 weeks to work out that he thought the wind whistling through a gap in his window, was wolves outside.

Not offended at all by the op, and don't want you to have a hard time (I sometimes have to say to dd's - 'please could you go into another room to talk for a minute, my head is about to pop') - but must admit when I saw the thread title the first though that popped into my head was, 'nooooooooo, never think that!'

I have one of these too. As well as being talkative, he's the loudest child I have ever known - his laugh is deliciously infectious but you can hear him above everyone else in the playground/ park. He has a zest for life and a thirst for knowledge like I have never seen before. As an introvert I find it fascinating and tiring in equal measure. He's also just started 'singing' his worries/ fears/ feelings (we've been encouraging him to acknowledge his feelings about starting school in a couple of weeks) which, ironically, he seems more comfortable with than talking.

My eldest talked constantly at that age. My youngest has now taken on the mantle. Have to say I zone out a lot whilst making lots of non-commital noises to "show" I'm listening but yesterday I reached my full point and got really grumpy. She follows me round the house talking generally from the point she wakes until it's bedtime again. (Lack of mn to escape to for 5 mins?) Really appreciate the silence when they're in school.

Mine is like this too. It is lovely but draining with the constant Mama Mama Mama...

Yesterday I counted how many times he said Mama in one hour. 46 bloody times. And I had answered him every time so it's not as though I was ignoring him and he was having to get my attention.

Mine too!! From the minute his eyes open!!!!!

If it helps anyone, when I get a question I don't know the answer too then I tell him we will look it up. That usually buys a about 30 secs of intested silence while Mr Google helps me out.