Anyone else have a child that WIll Not Stop Talking?

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DD1 never shuts up. And if she asks me soemthing, as opposed to just randomly making noise then she will repeat it and repeat it until it drivesme mad, even if I answer.
I can see that DD2 is heading the same way as well, she was a late talker but is making up for it.

YEsterday they had me in tears after a day out when DD1 just Did Not Stop and I was trying to relax and listen/talk to other people as opposed to being 100% focussed on her!

Anyone have any advice? I feel awful telling her to Shhhh as I hated it as a child (Oh yes, she gets it from me) but when I am on the phone, or cooking , or driving and she is demanding my full attention it is too hard not to.

DS(5) is working on some ghastly (but on some levels admirable) Karen/Ben hybrid.
I end up giving him huge lectures on particle physics (or some other completely age-inappropriate subject) in self-defence - people listening must think I'm either completely delusional or the most competitive mother ever, but at least it shuts him up for a bit, and means I don't have to deal with his more random thought processes.

Thats funny Groovy I would be dead proud!

I have a 10 year old dd who yaks at full volume non-stop. The rest of just do the beak hand signal until she stops, then we all laugh (including her). She is the most lovable and loving girl but boy she can yikkity yak.

When she was younger I just used to walk away after a while and shut myself in- kept me sane and stopped her yakking.

Hope this helps.

JackBauer, I have started and contributed to a number of threads like this one, and I seem to remember that the Non Stop Talking peaked at age 4 for my DD1. Like you I was worried how she would get on at school (if her own mother wanted to hold a hand over her mouth, how would her teacher fare?) Like other posters I developed strategies, notably the mantra "Please stop talking until I say 'go' so that Mummy can think"- most useful for the two minutes before leaving the house when I need to find my keys.

But DD1 is now 6 and has calmed down considerably- crucially, learning to read and write has given her other outlets for her overactive brain. She now has a little pile of notebooks into which she writes long, misspelled monologues about moustaches and circuses and yes, black holes, and can often be found silently reading a paperback to herself- what relief! So I think this is probably a phase that willquickly pass. (I hope so because DD2 is gearing up to fill the gaps in the wall to wall conversation!)

Be grateful that for most of yours, it's a passing phase.
Arsenic and I are in for the loooonng haul!

Yup. We have had some success with 'I really need to concentrate on this junction' but it then gets followed up with a lot of chatter about how people who crash haven't concentrated etc etc etc.

For the last 3 days we have had incessant singing about things too - he has often made up songs about stuff, but this has been more than usual. I did love the ode to sushi though

He chats from the moment he wakes up (actually, DH swears that his mouth opens before his eyes) to the point he goes to sleep.

We overexplain (but are both scientists, so this may explain things) and it is hilarious when he lectures people on volcanos/the solar system etc.

He's 4, and I do pity his teacher

Yes, am still waiting for ds (7.6 yo) to grown out of this 'phase' he developed at 2.6 yo. He talks over everyone and insists its important when asked to wait

Yep, me too. DS1 in full flow is mind melting. Why he think I need to know the full history of each bloody Bionicle, whose names seem to be a hybrid of Maori/Greek, (Thank you, Lego) is beyond me.
He recently started challenging me with mental maths. 6.30am...'Mum, what's 7 + 32 + fify hundred and 11 and how many zeros in 6 billion...is there a 7 billion if so how big is it really and how close to infinity is it?' My maths CSE doesn't hold up well at that time...or in fact, anytime.

DS is like this some days.

He really picks his moments though...like a recent 8hr car journey. I swear, when we got to the hotel I was ready to book into a separate room.

Luckily, as the hotel had a TV (and the DC hadn't seen one for over a week) it proved a big enough distraction for long enough for me to have a quiet lie-down with a drink

This si why my dvd player is such a godsend. 4 hours in a car with both DD's means I am ready to drive off an embankment if only to Shut Them Up.

I have been known to beep for no reason just to break a train of thought as well

Its so difficult in a confined space where you can't escape or send them on a fictitious errand ("DS can you pop into the garden and count how many roof tiles are on the house please as I need to know for this form") isn't it?

What is it about black holes - we are big on them in this house at the moment too...and as for a 'phase' humm....ds is 7 so some phase is all I have to say! Norbs I love the 'can you count the tiles'..

Loving the beep for no reason JB and Norbert - how many roof tiles do you have? I definately need to know how many we've got now you've put the thought in my head!! I can see my dd1 counting them next time I just can't answer any more questions!!!!!

so tonight we have done countries that are divided (Ireland, Korea, germany, India), why were they divided, how did they draw the line, who doesn't let you into their country, immigration, wars, passports......I am knackered...and I can still hear him chuntering from here

This might seem an odd idea, and I have no idea whether it would be useful, but I'm just brainstorming having raised two bright/inquisitive/but-thankfully-not-noisy children:

How about going to your local library, seeing if they have non-fiction books (science, history, or maybe Bill Bryson or Michael Palin - you get the idea) on CD, borrowing them, putting them on your iPod and sticking the headphones in their ears. Perhaps being talked at by someone who absolutely won't respond, could give you a bit of a break.

Oh thank god I'm not the only one Ds's constant chatter has had me at my wits end. I just wish he would give it a rest for 5 minutes so that I can think straight.

mme well re the driving I have told (repeatedly and insistently ) that ds has to be quiet when mummy is doing "important driving". This has had some effect and I no longer feel like I am about to crash the car when reversing into small spaces....I also answer with "I don't know" to many many of ds's hundreds of questions.....I really don't care if he thinks mummy is not too bright a spark!

LOL at this I am relieved its not just us being driven mental by the constant yakking. This weekend we had visitors and dd could hardly handle us talking to eaxh other and not to her. At one point she scraeamed 'Grandad STOP talking to Daddy!'

Norbert's spurious task is now being added to the armory.

If it was just talking I would not mind so much, as I like a chat too, but when there is no talking she monologues her actions in song ('I am walking down the road, wiiiithh my little sister; etc etc). When she can't think of a song she just makes random noises ie

Her: 'Uuuuuuuuuuu'
Me: 'What are you doing?'
Her: 'That is what the hoover sounds like'

Why?

LOL at this I am relieved its not just us being driven mental by the constant yakking. This weekend we had visitors and dd could hardly handle us talking to eaxh other and not to her. At one point she scraeamed 'Grandad STOP talking to Daddy!'

Norbert's spurious task is now being added to the armory.

If it was just talking I would not mind so much, as I like a chat too, but when there is no talking she monologues her actions in song ('I am walking down the road, wiiiithh my little sister; etc etc). When she can't think of a song she just makes random noises ie

Her: 'Uuuuuuuuuuu'
Me: 'What are you doing?'
Her: 'That is what the hoover sounds like'

Why?

ds1 (9) never stops. Seriously, the boy chats in his sleep. He often wakes up the whole house by yelling for his sister/school friends etc in the night and then having loud conversations with them.

Sometimes I want to cut off my own ears.

I have a 22mth old who does shut up!
I fear I have many many years of this to come with her. DD2 is only 4 weeks but god help me if shes the same!

DD's already talks in fluent sentences and knows her shapes,colours,numbers and is now interested in letters. She was even saying mummy /daddy at 10mths.
Its great that her speech is so good but please... SHUT UP for just a few moments.

From the moment she wakes shes laying in bed chatting away to her teddies and dollies. Its hilarious to listen to as all sort of stuff crap comes out very randomly.

My DS1(4.8) never shuts ups from the moment he opens his eyes til the moment hes asleep on a night, its incessant, and he talks in his sleep too.
When his chatting gets too much, in the car for example i,ll say 'Lets play the no talking game-see who can last the longest without talking'... gives me a little peace sometimes

who can last the longest without talking - ds is HOPELESS at that game - lasts two seconds if you are lucky and then he's off again...

OMG yes, I feel your pain JackBauer I have two DDs (3yrs old and 20m) and they're both at it already - the 3 yr old drives me up the fecking wall with her chatter and questions. I was talking to my mum about it yesterday and she sighed knowingly - says the way she got over it with the three of us was to get us reading early - but it's worrying to hear it's only going to get worse (though I do like the idea of them flummoxing academic types with their questions later on in life )

So other than counting roof tiles, no real answers here as to how to get them to stfu? (I have been so close to saying that to them recently )

And yes, I get no sympathy from friends or family - just a knowing look

Current rambling from DD1 (it's 6:40 in the morning - this has been going for at least half an hour already) (word for word as I wrote it down)

(pointing out of our bedroom window)
"Look it's a frosty tree! A frosty tree! A frosty tree! Look, it's a frosty tree! A frosty tree? (incredulous at her own desciption) What's a frosty tree??! I don't think it's a frosty tree! I don't think it's cold today. I think it's warm today. I think it's summery. I can wear short sleeves! Can't I mummy? I can wear short sleeves if it's warm can't I mummy? It's not cold today Oh Look - a worm! I think that's a worm! The worm is saying Aaaarghhhhhhhhhhhh (top volume). A ladybird! A ladybird! A ladybird! There! Look mummy! A ladybird (there's no fecking ladybird to be seen btw). That's a ladybird. Hello ladybird! Hello ladybird! HELLO LADYBIRDDDDDDD! (cue me running whimpering from my room)