to have apologised to my mother for my behaviour

[JackBauer]

as a child?

DD1 witters on, constantly, about nothing. She has a running commentary going from the second her eyes open to about 5 minutes after she goes to sleep (shes a sleep talker, like me). If you don't respond the volume goes up and she repeats the same thing over and over until you do respond.

DH says that I am exactly the same.

I called my mum and asked her if I was like that as a child. She (rather quickly) said yes.

I offered her my heartfelt apologies as it drives me fricking nuts.

I have also apologised for smacking her hand away everytime she put my hair behind my earsas a child because 'it was in my face and I couldn't possibly see' after I cut DD1's fringe because I kept tucking her hair behind her ears.

I have never heard my mum stifle giggles before

Brilliant!!

What goes around comes around!

Oh joy. The wittering started at half 5 this morning with
'Mummy! I did a wee in the loo! Look Mummy! Mummy? Mummy? Wake up mummy.'

'I was in bed and I needed a wee so I got up, didn't I? And I went to the bathroom and I sat on teh loo and I did a wee and I wiped my bottom....'
'DD1, that's very clever, but it's still sleepy time'
'What tiem is it?'
'Half past bleeding five'
'That means the long hand is at the 6 and the short hand is at the 5 doesn't it? What does it mena if the long hand is at...'

JB - can I send ds over and they can have a competition? Even other children say doesn't X EVER shut up?

Umm.....maybe I can send DD over to you?

And she's only 3! I have years of this to go!

I feel your pain JB. I co sleep with both of mine (!!!!) and ds likes to wake me up at 5ish by opening my eyelid and seeing if i'm awake. Apparently this is my penance for years of waking my folks up before 6am...

{grin] ds is 6! and it hasn't got any better...guess what he gets ticked off for most at school and I just cos its me all over again!

great .

DD is the same, she talks and talks and talks, and when I ever comment. DH says 'oh I wonder where she got that from?

Oh this makes me smile.

Ds2 has my (childhood) temper. My mum is very happy.

you made me laugh! But ruefully, as this is exactly what my 3yo dd is like.... gah!

I'm not sure if I am pleased it's not just me
DD2 has inherited DH's stubborness, which MIL finds hysterically funny and also my tomboy/fearless/I'm going to climb anything tendancies. Which I am rather less amused about....

Dee, this is exactly why I don't cosleep with DD1 anymore. If she wakes in the night DH takes her into the other room or she and I swap beds as he can sleep through the yammering, (he says he does it all the time anywa)

DD was exactly like that at that age! Though to be fair she did seem perfectly happy to witter on unheeded - maybe I was just a shittier mum better at ignoring than you, so she had to get used to it.

If it's any comfort she did turn out to excel in all aspects of language at school, especially the Speaking and Listening bits.

She's now 19, at university studying Psychology and particularly interested in the psychology of language and these days the constant wittering is usually directed at her mates via the phone, and I get the interesting, funny and intelligent conversation

Ds goes in the spare bedroom where his train track is and tells looooong complicated stories involving Thomas et al and THEN asks 'which bit did you like best? DP and I have become very good at tuning in occasionaly so that we can answer 'the bit where Emily did x', whilst not pointing out its the only bit we actually listened to!! I used to 'umm' a lot in the hope he'd think I was listening, but he's caught on to that

erm, 'as a child'?

Didn't DH say that you ARE exactly the same?

Are you doing it now?

Yup, I am still doing it now, but my mum doesn't have to put up with it.
I am just lucky that DH is very good at half listening and so me blathering on doesn't bother him as much, he doesn't really hear it
(Besides, he knew what I was like when he married me, so tough!)

[whispers] I repeat myself, saying the same thing in lots of different ways, and so does my son. We call him Explainaboy. [slinks away]

God I do that and can hear myself doing it and am unable to stop myself repeating.

Am sure its a proper medical syndrome

Yeah it's called 'make-sure-the-idiots-get-it-itis'

DS2 is a wittere (right now being quiet having a Siesta) DS1 was such a quiet child so it is a bit of a shock to have a constant running commentary from the time he gets up till bed time

He doesnt have any social brakes and will approch anyone to natter. We've been at the beach and he has just walzted up to strangers and 'made friends', doesnt matter that they were having a quiet game of beach bat and ball.. We have to watch him like a hawk as he announces he's off to find friends

oh thank god!
DH doesn't realise that I know I am doing it, but I can't stop myself! I just feel that I want to share what I am thinking. All the time. Doesn't make it any less irritating when DD1 does it though

Luckily for me Il's are visiting and so she is blathering at them instead!

Oh my God my 4 year old DD is exactly like this. My friends spend 5 minutes with her and say 'Aren't you tired? How do you cope??'

Her speciality is asking the same thing over and over again but in new and 'interesting' ways eg:

"Are we going to the zoo tomorrow Mummy?"

"yes"

"So we're going to the zoo tomorrow"

"Yes"

"So after I get up we're going to the zoo"

"YES"

"So the day after this day we're going to the zoo"

"FOR THE LOVE OF GOD - YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS"

etc. x

my mum tried hard - but failed- to not chuckle when i phoned up for advise on removing green crayon from the hall wall.

I did EXACTLY the same except mine went along the hall up the stairs and the finale was a huge round scribble.

At least mine was semi washable paint, my parents had only just wall papered!

rustybear: was she really that bad? sorry

my daughter is just like that I've actually started to tune her out sometimes..lol ..I apologised to my mother when I was about 7mths pregnant...it was in the huge Mothercare in Edmonton...I said 'Mum, I love you very much and I'm sorry'..she looked confused I then explained I thought she was nuts for many years and I now understand her madness she burst out laughing and gave a me a big hug