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Has anyone else's three year old started acting like a baby?

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Glow25 · 23/09/2026 16:51

Anyone one else's 3/4 year old start acting like a baby?
My lovely, active, polite, sociable 3 and a half year old has started acting like a baby.
She has hit all milestones, speech is good, physically strong, has friends at nursery but has suddenly decided at home she’s a baby.
Deliberately talking like a baby, asking to be carried, asking to be fed, asking to watch baby tv, watching a baby cup/ bottle.
if anyone can relate, is there anything I can do and when did it stop? 😂

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ExplodingSmittens · 23/09/2026 16:55

Has anything changed? New room at Nursery or maybe a new sibling?

Hathead18 · 24/09/2026 09:24

I have a three year old and a 1 year old and the older one has started acting a bit babyish - for example the baby will point and grunt at something and now my toddler will do that rather than just asking for something like he used to. It’s quite annoying! Sometimes he whines and talks like a baby too. I’m guessing it’s because the baby gets attention so he’s copying.
Do you have a new baby? Or has anything else changed?

Nelly44 · 27/09/2026 08:12

Just go with it, cuddle her like a baby, give the bottle. It’ll stop soon enough

ExplodingSmittens · 27/09/2026 10:51

Nelly44 · 27/09/2026 08:12

Just go with it, cuddle her like a baby, give the bottle. It’ll stop soon enough

Now I’m the exact opposite. If she was talking like a baby I’d claim I couldn’t understand baby talk and she needed to talk like the big girl she is.

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