To want to gag my DS and put him in a cupboard where I can't hear him..

[MitsubishiWarrioress]

Until he stops talking in every voice except his own..

It is driving me potty,

It is like living with the cast of the Simpsons on Smarties and RedBull..

He is 11 and has been doing it for as long as I can remember

WHEN WILL HE STOP!

My ears are bleeding....

Yep ask him to stop or go to his room.

That'll be me that finds it annoying Pixie...

I sometimes wonder if he actually has a voice of his own any more..

Or send him to stage school and see if he really has talent then he can do all the voices and maybe they'll tell him to practice his own...

Or invest in some industrial ear defenders. They work for me. I can't bear noise in general and have noisy DS, DH, dog, road, radio. I am going insane

What happens if you annoyingly 'pretend' that you can't hear anything he says unless it's in his normal voice with 'sorry I can't hear you when you talk in that voice' until he is desperate to communicate something important and then has to relent. Maybe only works with littler ones?

I'm sorry, I really hate it when people get offended by others opinions etc, but my mum did lock me in the cupboard (when I was much younger than your DS) and you have touched a nerve, I know you would have had no intention of doing this but I don't like 'jokes' about things like this.

ha, thats my mum used to say about me, Im 27 now and I hate my mother for that.

No, it's OK Pixie... I apologise for causing offence coldhands... I really do.

I suppose to me it was harmless because it is the last thing in the world I would think of doing. I get it sometimes with posts..

I have a brilliant relationship with my DS and we had a 'joke' from when he was younger that HE called the cupboard under the stairs the 'chokey' from the Roald Dahl film Mathilda.

I didn't think about whether or not the title would cause a problem and maybe that was thoughless of me.

My head is spinning because he literally talks at high speed in so many different voices that I needed to just have an 'aaaaarrrrggggggghhhhhhhh!!!' moment.

I will pull the thread if it is really going to upset anyone else because it is absolutely NOT in my nature to deliberately provoke bad feelings.

I sincerely apologise for triggering any bad memories and will not post again to let this thread die.

No YNBU to feel like doing it.
You would be BU to acctually do it.

I used to get locked in a tiny broom cupboard in primary school for talking too much in class (Madagascar so they also used to hit us with rulers , but no bad memories for me!) I can tell you though, it didn't work, I still have verbal diarrhoea
That would drive me mad, my little brother used to speak in a 'scottish' accent all the time and yea...used to send my mum round the bend!

I have actually gagged my daughter!

She was about 2 and we were is a resteraunt and something made her angry and she just started screaming. I was horrified! The natural reaction I had, was to cover her mouth with my hand and whisk her out of the resteraunt. She calmed down outside and then she was fine all through the meal.

Mitsubishi thanks. I know you had no intention of upsetting anyone and as my DS gets older I may think things that I have no intention of doing. Don't worry about it, I just know that I am very sensitive to some things, which I know very well is my problem, and I do get fed up when people are sensitive to any little thing as there is always something that will upset someone.

Pixie I have no intention of reporting the post. The OP hasn't said she will actually do it and I know it is a lighthearted thing for some people, but I am entitled to post what I want, where I want.

Do it back to him in really embarrassing voices. In front of his friends. Job done.