To be driven so crackers by the same question being asked over and over?

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I have a three year old daughter who is being quite hard work at the moment. She's going through a phase of asking "Please can I go home?" This is a benign enough question but she asks it 50 or 60 times a day and asks even when we are on our way home / are actually at home.

I've started off by saying "You're already at home", moved on to "Shall we talk about something else?" to "Please stop asking nonsense questions" to "I've asked you repeatedly not to say that any more. I'm going to get cross if you carry on".

I now have a terrible headache and have put the telly on for the kids.

Does anyone else also get this?

I used to have a boss who would ask the same question repeatedly (if he didn't like the answer the first time) and that drove me mad too. It was a different situation though.

The answer to 'please can we go home ' when at home or on way is "no let's go to the moon" "no, we're going to jelly riding a sausage" "yes, let's go to our anthill" "where is home? Is it under the sea?"

Etc.

Mine says "mummy mummy mummy mummy I got a good idea"
Then I say "yes?" Then he stands there trying to think of one. Quite often it's we should go home or we should go to a cafe.

Ours asks the same thing over and over, usually what are we doing today / where are we going / do I have nursery today - type questions.

We answer a couple of times and then just say I don't know, and ask him what he thinks the answer is. This tends to stop it.

I think it is just that he wants to talk and doesn't know what to ask us or how to make small talk yet.

Just answer
"Sure"

Every. Single. Time.

Just "sure".

It means you don't have to engage any brain cells whatsoever. And your daughter will eventually get sick of the same response, day in, day out.

Even if you're at home.

"Mummy, please can we go home?"

"Sure"

Found myself at the checkout in Sainsbury's last week casually responding why why why why why ...... much to the amusement of the customer in front of me who was buckled over laughing 😂 .... think I triggered a distant memory for him .... ds forgot the whys & moved onto wanting to put the money in the till 🙄

My sister used to always say that she wanted to go home even when we were at home.
Turns out she was feeling anxious and didn't know how to verbalise it. She associated "home" with feeling safe and content and saying she wanted to go home was her way of trying to say she was feeling anxious and was looking for reassurance etc.

My 3 year old is also going through a lots of questions stage but is also getting worried and teary for no reason at the moment. We've been travelling a lot and he may be craving stability or it may be a flood of hormones and completely normal.

So it's not unusual but I do understand how annoying it can be too.
Maybe make a cuppa and have a cuddle with her while you watch some cbeebies together. give yourself both a break!

Still get this at 10 and 14!

Can't decide if it is
genuine didn't listen in the first place

an attempt at interaction

or a strange kind of "network ping" to check the world is still there.

Either way it's annoying after the 20th asking of "Where are we going?" - listen out for a small nuclear explosion on the IOW, that will be me finally cracking.

Argggghhh mine does this at the moment.
"Where are we going?" Repeat ad infinitum until I go insane.

Not one specific question though, anything just again and again and again and again...

Can't decide if she's not listening, has the memory of a goldfish or just winding me up making conversation