O god the repeated questions please tell me they grow out of it...?

[stillfrazzled]

DS1 is 3.8. He may not make it to his fourth birthday, though, if he doesn't stop asking the same farking question over and over and OVER again.

Sample: "Mummy, are we going to Nana's after Nursery?" "Yes, DS1, we are."

"Mummy, are we going to Nana's after Nursery?" "Yes, DS1, we are."

"Mummy, are we going to Nana's after Nursery?" "Yes, DS1, we are."

"Mummy, are we going to Nana's after Nursery?" "Yes, DS1, we are."

"Mummy, are we going to Nana's after Nursery?" "FGS I have already answered that question FOUR TIMES, what did I say the first time?"

Or "FGS I have already answered that question FOUR TIMES, if you can't be bothered to listen to the answer I don't see why I should waste my one and only life answering..."

[I do realise that it takes longer to say this stuff than just to answer him again but it drives me INSANE].

Why do they do it? Does it end? Please someone give me some hope!

3.8??? My Ds has just started this and he is only 2.6. Pleaseeeeee tell me it doesn't go on for over a year The other night I stupidly decided to have a bath at the same time as ds going to bed, so much for relaxing;
"Mummy are you in the bath?"
"Yes ds"
"Mummy are you in the bath?"
"Yes ds"
"Mummy are you in the bath?"
Again and again and again. I fully sympathise stillfrazzled we might not even make it to 3yrs old!

hi both,my ds2 is four, in reception and still repeats himself, endlessly. but ds1 who is six never did, i thought it was just mine, not that this helps much

Yes they do. DS was like this and stopped just before he turned 4. Now he is annoyingly clingy instead. It never ends....

mine is five in august.?

NO DS still does this, but he's 10.

However, he does leave longer gaps between asking eht same question.

DH does it too.

Ah yes, DH does occasionally ask me the same question twice. I'm OK with it though because the technique - steely stare and What Did I Say The First Time? - works quite well on him AND leaves me preening on the moral high ground

Mine is 16 years old and I get the constant questions too.

" Mum, can you pay for my V tickets?"
"Mum, can you pay for my V tickets?"
"Mum, can you pay for my V tickets?"

Actually, my mum does this to me. Plus she tells me the same story over and over; ditto MIL, who I thought was giving me secret messages (she told me a story about a baby dying after eating too much adult porridge with salt in it - I thought she thought I was going to kill DS with salt). So I would say that there is no age limit to this kind of behaviour...

sparklyboots Right you have me worried now - away to check box of porridge..........

Dammit, ive poured it into a plastic container. Im hoping adult porridge doesn't have salt in it and the silly people were actually adding it to the porridge??

OP my DS is past repeating and justtalksnonstopwithoutabreathorabreakandithinkimayloosemyfeckingmindifitgoesonmuchlonger.

We walk (he scooters) for 30 mins every morning and every afternoon back and forth to nursery. Even though he is miles infront as im pushing his sister in the pram and I can't hear a thing for traffic etc, he is still talking.

People in bus stops laugh every morning at this (it's usually the same folk). Occasionally he will realise nobody has answered him and he will stop dead and scream something like "WELL MUMMY TELL ME WHAT COLOUR MY ALIEN ZAPPER IS THEN"?

He is also much much more boystress and generally a PITA.

On a brighter note, he is also hilarious at times with what he does say when i tune in from time to time.

I still need to know about the porridge though.....I force DS and DD (16 months) normal porridge every morning and have done since they were 8 months old .

The DDs do this, and when they can't think of any questions it's a constant monologue of "Mummy, where are you? Mummy, mummy, mummy..." until I say WHAT?????? and they say "Nothing, I just wanted you to ask what I wanted" GRRRRRRR!

Mummy, why are you drinking coffee?
Mummy, why are you drinking coffee?
What are you looking at on the internet?
Mummy, why are you drinking coffee?
Mummy, can I be a princess too when I grow up?
Mummy, why are you on the internet?
Mummy, can my dress be glittery, Mummy, if I become a princess?
Mummy, why are you drinking coffee?

DS (nearly 4) is doing this and has been for some time, although recently he's found a new and improved drive-mummy-and-daddy-to-swearing technique. It goes like this:

DS: "Mum, why ? Why?"

Me: "FGSyoudonotneedthesecondwhyIhaven'thadtimetoinhaleletaloneanswerthebloodyquestionjustaskthequestionanddon'tsaywhytwiceOK?"

DS: "Yes mum but why?"

Me: Argh!

"Mummy, where are we going?"

"Home"

"Why?"

"Because that's where we live"

"Why?"

"Because we like living there"

"Why?"

(losing patience) "Because otherwise we would live in a cardboard box, now think about what colour the box would be..."

"Blue mummy, why?"

I do try to keep calm but it is exasperating!

Quickchat - if it's just porridge oats you are fine, but if it is a quick-cook or preprepared oat based breakfast cereal - e.g. Ready Brek - there may be some salt in it. As I explained to MIL ad infinitem.

My ds is nearly 2 so not got to this stage yet. However when I was a nanny I just used to say to the child after the 3rd or 4th why....'well why do you think?' This 9 times out of 10 would make them stop, think and then just walk away!

Oh thank god - re the porridge!

Yes reversing the question back to them as moojie has said, does really work.

Shut Up, generally doesn't

"You just asked me that. Can you remember what I said then? said as calmly as possible and as though the thought of sitting down in the middle of the street with your hands over your ears and quietly weeping couldn't be further from your mind.

I used to have this. I am a bad mummy. I dealt with it by giving my DCs very obvious nonsense answers. Something like this:

DD: Mummy, are you in the bath?
Me: No, I'm in Bedford Prison, sweeping the landings.

DD: Mummy, can I have a snack?
Me: You've just had lunch.
DD: But I'm still hungry.
Me: There's a spade in the shed, go and dig for worms.

It works. Admittedly mine are now 8 and 10 and think I'm insane, but they also think I'm cool .

pointythings I tried that approach.

DS "where are we going?"

Me "I'm driving us to the moon"

DS "no mummy, if we were going to the moon we would need a rocket"

Bloomin' answer to everything!