"Mummy are we there yet?" X 1000

[Elmo311]

On the bus sitting at the back and in the seats in front of me there's a little boy and his mum. LB probably about 3? I don't know.
For the whole 45 min journey he was asking her if they were there yet, and she didn't answer him or say anything to him once!

I felt like I was being tortured haha! Even I fucking wanted to know if they were there yet!

They got on the bus after me so I know she had not answered his question on the bus.

AIBU to think she should have responded / distracted....anything ?

I do see this a lot though, people ignoring repetitive questions. My kids aren't old enough yet so I don't yet understand it, but is there a reason? Have they put in ear plugs so that they can cope?!

@Elmo311 He has nursery four days a week until school starts properly in september, so thankfully it’s mainly someone elses problem 😂

@SimonJT I bet that makes you happy 😃
I was considering working in a nursery, I won't now !

I tell DS that the start of his journey is at his toes, the designation us his head. "Are we nearly there yet? How far is it?" = We're at your knees/we're at your tummy button/we're tickling your nose. Etc.

With other repetitive questions I'd answer the 5th time with something silly. What's for dinner!? Pizza-pizza-pizz-pizza-toes and ketchup/dog's fur on toast/snots with bacon. Then we'd invent other silly good between us and the repetition was over.

DS is 7.5yo and still asks 90x.

• dedtination!
• food My typing

@elQuintoConyo I like that , sounds more fun than ignoring and slowly dying inside!

7.5 and still repetitive? Oh god, I really am going to wish I was deaf!

Love her to bits but I set a timer on the echo the other day “no talking for ten seconds”
She wasn’t able to complete the challenge
Sometimes I avoid eye contact, I’m terrible. I can’t face sitting down at breakfast to be bombarded with questions about nothing at 6.15 so I just stand and stare out of the window

Sometimes when I’m driving the incessant talking is really distracting. She is really sweet tho because when I ask her nicely “no talking for a bit as mummy needs to concentrate” she genuinely does try ❤️❤️

@Siameasy Aww bless her for trying 🥰

I love your optimism that had she answered him, it would have stopped the questioning. Often you answer the same question 27 times and it’s not enough.

Children often don’t get that conversation is back and forth, they just think hammering away with the same question is how you do “chatting”

Mum?
Yes
Mum?
Yes
Mum?
YES WHAT?
Mum?
WTAF DO YOU WANT?

There a few times when screens are acceptable imo, this is one of them.

@Evilmorty After hearing him ask her a lot of times in 45 mins I honestly wanted to bash my head in , I'd forgotten my headphones so I was literally stuck listening to it!

I'll see when it happens to me but I fear I may tell them to be quiet, especially if on public transport. But I'm sure they won't listen, will they?.

Tbh all you’d have listened to is

“are we nearly there yet?”
“No”

For 45 minutes instead 😂

My dd is going through the 'why' phase.... every little thing I ask her to do is met with 'but why?' Put her shoes on, brush teeth, pick up toys everything!!!! I'm considering making it a swear word in our house 😂

Dd1 just talks incessantly from the moment she wakes up normally about absolute nonsense or her latest obsession. Currently it's plastic pollution and Pokemon....

Oh and public transport is normally the favoured place for mine to ask awkward questions, we've had discussions about where babies come from, breastfeeding, transgender, why do people look different, why do old people smell, why is there homeless people. Just a few examples of me being put on the spot and having to come up with an answer with a bus full of people 🤣