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5 year old never stops talking

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Mumoflittlegirl29 · 19/12/2024 09:48

Hi, just looking for some strategies to help my lovely 5 year old. She has always been a bubbly little girl ever since a baby, she was always giggly and smiley. She continues to be so, she is full of life, bubbly and always happy. She rarely has tantrums and if she does get upset it’s soon forgotten. The only thing I do find difficult to navigate is she loves to chat. We have always encouraged her to be friendly and chatty but sometimes I feel she can be over bearing especially since she is at school. She is an only child and I will admit she is the only baby in our family so she is always made a fuss of, which I know sometimes is not always the best. We do set boundaries with her and she is very polite and well mannered. I just find sometimes she loves the attention of adults and will chat constantly and sometimes talks over the top of everyone. I always worry that other children in her class may find her bossy or over powering as she can sometimes come across like that but we do encourage her to wait her turn at home and we have tried to show her that sometimes she has to simply wait for us to do things as we can be busy doing something when she is asking us to do stuff. She has always been full of energy. She goes to bed at 7pm every night and has atleast 12-13 hours rest and always has done since she was small. Her teacher says she is lovely in class but she can be quite rough ie she sometimes bumps into people / bumps herself in the playground. She is quite an outdoors girl and loves sports. Overall she is a joy but sometimes it can be a little draining when there is constant chatting from morning until night.

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TinyMouseTheatre · 20/12/2024 07:04

It's difficult to know if she's just chatty or an indicator of something more.

How does she do on this simple progress checker?

Sweetestp · 22/12/2024 20:26

The bumping into things and people is quite interesting from a sensory/perceptual perspective as maybe she has some decreased sense of body position in space or relation to other things, and possibly coupled with poorer awareness of others and boundaries she just doesnt realise she is chatting over anyone or bumping into them etc.. it seems harmless and she sounds lovely, but I wonder if maybe some chats around boundaries in the sense of who are the ppl I have in my inner and outer circles, as well as physical space boundaries (potentially analysing some pictures of good and bad examples of being in someones soace - strangers and familiar ppl and what is and isnt onay) and then asking all adults in the family to stop allowing her to bud into convos but just politely asking her to wait until they have finished their sentences..

i think with age development kids need to adjust so much to social norms, something she did at 3 may have been adorable and just isnt at 5 anymore, and if many adults have praised her a lot (which they should have done) its possible she still craves that same positive reinforcement.. so from a self awareness perspective, your chats with her could maybe start looking at her own feelings of pride regarding things she is good at etc rather than focus being on impressing the adult..

Not sure if im out of line here, but i think this is a good thing for you to have picked up on with regard to social development

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