My 10 year old ds feels the need to make constant noise when he's awake. I'm loosing the will to live. Any tips on how to keep my sanity?

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He's lovely most of the time but he never shuts up, it's sometimes an endless dribble of nonsence. I know it won't last, in a few years time puberty will set in and I'll hear nothing but grunts until it's all over. Until then, do I really have to put up with the loud shouts to get attention etc? I'm a quiet person at heart and do appreciate some quiet every once in a while. I have tried diverting his attention/ignoring him/distraction etc, nothing appears to work. What do you do?

Ear plugs

TUNE HIM OUT for your own sanity

arf at endless dribble of nonsense, that is the perfect description

What does he do when you are at home together? does he expect you to do active listening ?

Does he get out every day to run and shout in the open?

Sounds like my (almost 8) ds as well.

We sometimes "joke" that he was born with a broken volume control. Endless wittering on about everything at a high volume, lots of shouting out about things good or bad, he can't even sit and read a book without laughing out loud (loud) every 2 minutes and coming to tell me things.

He's lovely, too, but never, ever, quiet.

He has a lot of energy and needs a lot more running around outside than the girls do.

I had his hearing tested several times when he was younger as I seriously wondered if he had hearing problems. HV pointed out he could hear a bag of crisps being opened from the bottom of the garden! He's just loud.

It is wearing, though.

I did describe all this to his teacher, however, who looked at me as if I was describing someone elses child.

I have tried to tune him out. We had a jamin session this evening to the Beatles which he really enjoyed, the neighbours probably didn't though He likes my laptop, which he can't use all the time as I'm busy on here working. He wants active listening all the time, he even admits that he talks too much but he laughs at it as if it's a joke! I take him out and he's the same, I take him into games workshop and he's 10 times worse and picks up the sarcastic/out of order comments from the staff and joins in with them, the Bogey (al la Dick and Dom -tossers- has been a favourite for some time).

I feel ear plugs will make it worse as he'll really know I'm not listening.

I need peace and quiet!

I do fear ds is exactly the same at school weegiemum, he has more confidence then I had at 10, exceptionally bright but boy can he talk. I don't mind if it's a conversation that is slightly meaningful, this is a rare occurance at the moment though.

DS1 is 7 and non stop talker noise maker.

I sometimes go sit in the car on the drive if DH is in to get some peace, even 10 mins works.

And I put on the oven timer and tell him no speaking until it beeps!

I also pretend that I am a laptop/computer type thingy and say 'I am sorry the Mummy you are trying to reach is not available' BEEP BEEP

He loves my ipod and we have complied some 'tunes' he likes, this does result in lots of banging about as he dances. He also will sit and listen to an audio book, lots for boys on itunes.

I went loony today as it was MUM MUM MUM every 1.2 secs, had to screech twice 'I am having a poo' as he tried to get into the bathroom to tell me about Anakin Skywalkers new helmet he got for Christmas.

PMSL at "'I am sorry the Mummy you are trying to reach is not available' BEEP BEEP"

I am going to use this tomorrow!

I think my son's lonely. He doesn't see friends outside school, he has children he plays with at games workshop but he's really quick to play on the sometimes cude comments from the staff. He's an only child and I'm a single mum. He could do with some friends, this should help There's no spaces in the cubs where we live and I don't drive. Hmm.

crikey do we all have the same child? DS (7) only shuts up if he's asleep. Some of the time he talks sense or cute stuff, but most of the time it's drivel, usually started with "mum, can I ask you a question", which I now ignore cos whatever the answer he asks it anyway (and most times it's a totally daft question like: which wrestler is your favourite etc etc). I can't get the tuning out thing, his voice is set to that sort of white noise pitch that means that even if I'm not listening (and of course I do to the good stuff) I can still hear the witter witter witter. I am seriously considering Elastoplast over the gob. (not really, but it's a nice thought).

Awww fluffy.

Are there no children living near to you, whether at school with him or not, who are similar ages? One of the things that calms ds down is he has 2 little friends in the street who go to a different primary school but come in to play computer games sometimes (well ... they would come in every night after school given half a chance ...)

It can be really hard to get into Cubs, but Scouts is from 10 and a half so that might be possible soon - Scout groups tend to be bigger and have more room.

What about a sport. My ds started playing rugby in September and that has really been good for him - he burns off a LOT of energy and can yell as much as he likes.

If you live anywhere near Glasgow, feel free to bring him round and Wii with my ds (who loves "Big Boys")

Tiger - Duct Tape works better

Ds is not a sporty boy, he falls over alot. He did go to a local school for a very short time, partly in the hope he'd make friends around here but he was badly bullied so I had to move him. He sees the odd child from his old school on the way to the new one and he hides behind me and squeezes my hand

We're in the east midlands, it's a lovely offer though, thankyou weggie

Morning fluffy and other parents of noisy boys!

We're just in from a walk (it snowed again) and ds is now actually sitting quietly! He got an Egyptian excavation kit at Christmas and is excavating a sphinx and hasn't said a word in 5 mins!

Getting out is the key I think. He just has so much energy!