four days into the xmas holidays and 5yr old wont stop TALKING

[kittenheels]

help! i am developing a nervous twitch - my 5yr old DD will not stop talking! Not only does she spell out most of the things i say to her ie three sleeps tille Christmas, she'll go "t-h-r-e-e--s-l-e-e-p......" etc she also changes the conversation subject 2 or 3 times per minute! its like having an elf on speed around the house. xmas excitement i suppose, but it is seriously ANNOYING.

Does anyone else have a five year old motormouth?

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Is anyone finding there 5 year old hideously bady behaved too? My normally very biddable son has kicked(!) and cried and tantrumed since he broke up

yeah, tantrums are back on the agenda here too. accompanied with lots of blood curdling screaming when told to sit on the stairs/go to room when "time out" required.

My 5 yo dd spends all day arguing and bossing around her 3 yo brother. Totally infuriating. If I make a comment about how they should be kinder to each other, she bursts into tears. She is also stressing about where FC will leave her presents!!

Is it tiredness? remember the same in the summer

yeah, probably tiredness mixed in with excitement. Weve already let her have a few presents from Aunts and Uncles just to shut her up for 5 minutes.

OOH the rot will set in then!!

Calm yourselves, it will pass
In about 10 years.......
DS1 is nearly 15 and still like that, only he adds very annoying traits such as "like" and "erm" all the way thru his conversations, not to mention a serious loss of the letter t and h - unless they are not supposed to be pronounced
I once got so fed up of it, I told him not to say another word and he then spent DAYS making sounds and refusing to say please, thankyou etc or answer questions
A good beating with a cattle prod usually helps

thanks lisa78 - 10 years? help!

My DS2 is only 7 weeks and WOULD NOT stop screaming - hours and hours and hours. Someone told me it would pass - school would tire him out!! Huh!
Sorry kittenheels - Personal CD with mega headphones might be temporary respite - or putting her out in the garden!

or put ME in the garden! As soon as dd got up this morning, she jumped in to our bed and attempted to recite alphabet backwards really loud.

ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHGHGHHGHGHGG

I may contact MOD as non-stop talking from a 5 year old is similar to chinese water torture and would make even the most hardened criminals crack...!

Oh Dear... and I was putting so much effort on teaching him to talk... I'm a bit worried now, my MIL is always telling stories about how DH could spend hours talking before she could make him go to sleep and even though DS is only 9m he has been chatering for 3 hours -non stop- tonight...

chandra, i love that chatter they do at that age, ah, is he still up?

v. funny thread! We've got the opposite 'problem' with our 2 yr old ds, who talks a bit, but much more enjoys it when mummies tell him stories - over and over (and over) again. Poor dp - she's got a horrible cold and sore throat and when I was leaving for work this morning he was making her tell him a fireman story for about the 15th time since he woke up. You get to the end and he says "AGAIN!" and keeps saying it until you relent...!!

I'm off from tomorrow for 2 weeks and have promised to do my hours of story telling so that dp can get her voice back!

I have a 4 3/4 yo motor mouth. I seriously thought about sending him into nursery with DS2 today!!

His current topic of choice is When Will Things Happen. Sadly, he assumes my vague answer of "after Christmas" means immediately after Christmas and therefore daddy will be going back to work, he and DS2 will be going back to school/nursery and it will be his 5th birthday all on boxing day. It's going to be a busy day!

After being very worried about my DS1, we thought he was never going to talk he is now almost five and from the minute he gets up until he goes to bed he doesn't stop talking, some days it just turns into a background drone. At the moment he is in his bedroom, sent there by his Daddy for multiple naughtiness. Arrrgh, my DH has gone out the door and DS1 thinks it is time to come down ... sent him back up again afterall his Daddy put him up there, it is up to his Daddy when to bring him back down. Just enjoying the quiet!

Yes I too have a chatty, ds who is 3yr11months. Since he could utter a sound he has always been quite talkative. His sound has got louder now though, so instead of talking all day it is a loud close to shouting all day. I never knew so much volume could come out of one so small!!! Everything done, said or discussed in the house is followed by "whys", "wheres" and "whys" again. I can cope most of the time, but sometimes I have to say "Time out!!please!" mummy's brain needs a little rest. I swear that the baby in my stomach only moves erratically when he hears his brother's loud talkative voice. But as my mum says "If he wasn't talking you would be worried!" which of course she is right.