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4yo can't seem to not speak!

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PlopPlopPing · 28/04/2011 19:06

My DD (nearly 5) seems to find it hard not to speak. For example if she asks for something and I say that I am getting it she asks again, I then tell her I'm getting it and not to ask again and she does! It's like she actually can't stop herself.

For example, today at dinner I was wiping down the table and talking the plates away and she asked for afters, I said I was going to have a look and see if we had anything, she said "well go on then go and get it, go on" (rather rudely) I told her that I was clearing up and would go and look and not to be so rude so she said "well are you getting afters then, go on!" I told her that if she asked again she wouldn't get any and she didn't.

She does this all the time! Just now she was asking her dad for water and he was getting the water and she was still asking for it even though she could see he was getting it!

Does anyone else's child do this? She gets into trouble for it and if she keeps on she doesn't get the things she wants to try and teach her to stop asking. Sometimes though I lose it and get really angry as it's like having a woodpecker at your head! Sometimes I have been know to tell her to "close her mouth!"

Help!

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Brewster · 28/04/2011 19:40

My 2.9 year old does this!! has for a while....drives you bleedin mad at times doesnt it!

I shouted at him this morning cos I was washing up and he was asking for a snack so I said yes I will get it once I have finished this... he kept going on and on and on so I shouted at him (after numerous times telling him I would get it in a minute)...he burst out crying and told me not to shout at him cos he didnt like it!!
This happens allll the time!

He has plenty of attention through the day and we are a very loving family but patience is certianly not his strong point and he just cann ot be quiet for a minute and he certibaly cant wait for anything qithout going on and on and on!!!

Dont have an answer for you but wanted you to know you are not the only one!

To be fair though (as I feel bad ) other days he is a total angel.!!hehehe

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