Does anyone have a dd age 7 who talks....

[treedelivery]

....all the time?

Total inane nonsense and it's driving me round the twist [bublush]

My 7 yo dd doesn''t talk ALL the time, like if she's busy with or distracted by something, but she does talk alot, about anything. And between her and her 2 yo sister it is pretty non-stop and, yes, it does send you scatty.

I suppose mine might stop whenshe reads or something. That's about it though.

I have a 3yo coming up the ranks too - so in pretty similar scenario. I need ear muffs.

Well, actually it isn't just talking that my dd does, she's wanting to play word games all the time, which actually requires thinking or replying on my or dp's part!

I found it hard to concentrate on what we were meant to be doing in Homebase yesterday 'cos she had me playing the game where you have to say a word that starts with the last letter of the word that the last person said. Except the words had to have a certain number of letters i them, like we both did a three letter word, then four letters and so on.
I had to get her to wait in the end so I could think straight!

I knew the sentence would end 'all the time?' But no, I don't have a 7yo DD who talks all the time. She turned 8 three weeks ago.

I have learned to filter it out and have only said 'oh my god STOP TALKING' once this year. Very proud. I think she's improving a bit though, as she makes sense quite a lot of the time, but then the rest of the time it is inane nonsense. And she has still not learned the basic social niceties of conversation, does not wait her turn, doesn't listen to the answers to the questions she's asked ... I love her dearly, but really, making up for being an only child by making enough noise for three kids is not necessary.

They do. They talk all the time. You are all lying to yourselves to make yourself feel better.

It's all the time I tell you

I'd have simply fallen over in your position MamaMimi

No but I do have a 5.7 year old who does . I really do wish she had an off switch at times. She interrupts and keeps on talking when DH and I are having a conversation and then gets stroppy if we don't listen to her! And to think she was referred to a SALT at 2.3 because our GP didn't think she was verbal enough. No problem BTW according to SALT and she's made up for it since. I'm hoping DD2 doesn't follow her sister's lead....

not 7, but 5. it is constant, unless she's doing something involving a screen. even if she's doing craft or something we get a running commentary. on bad days it feels like her constant talking uses up all the oxygen, and i have to go in a different room to breathe.

her sister has been referred into speech therapy, and she gets cross when we keep having to remind her not to finish dd2's therapy exercises for her

No but I do have 7 year-old DS who talks, sings and whistles pretty much non-stop.

Swap you, for a 10 year old (well he will be next Tuesday) 7 year old (8 next week) and 3 year old, who all talk non-stop, all day every day - usually all at the same time.

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My 3 yr old does, she has done my nut in over Easter tbh!

Yes my dd is 6 though honestly she doesn't stop from wake up to bedtime and sometimes in her sleep too!!
I have learnt to 'stop listening' but dh hasn't, I say we wouldn't have her any other way but am trying to teach her 'turn taking'

I have a 3 year old boy who talks constantly. I get running commentaries on everything, using the most roundabout language/explanations and repeating himself.

It goes something like this:

Mummy? Mummy, are you there?
Yes, I'm here.
Can you see me? I can't see you from here. You should sit on the bath, right there.
No, I'm alright here thanks, I can still hear you!
Oh, alright then. Mummy, I am getting some toilet paper now, I'm getting one bit for you and one bit for me. I've got them here in my hands. Now I'm putting this one on this leg, this is your piece for you to use, and my piece is on this leg. Look!
Wow, that's great!
This one is on this leg, and that one is for you. It's not for me, it's for you. The other one is on this leg, and that one is for me. You can't use my piece.
Okay, I won't use your piece.
Oh no! I just dropped your piece of toilet paper on the floor! Mummy, help, get it for me! Oh, it's okay, I picked it up with my toes, that was close, wasn't it! Now I put it back on my leg.

(And so on, for hours. Punctuated with the odd "Did you hear that splash?? It was a VERY BIG splash, it came right up to my bottom!" and "Can you smell my poo? I can smell my poo!")

Please tell me you all have to suffer this too?

[bugrin] moosemama

treedelivery I probably would have fallen over if I hadn't had the trolley to hold on to! In which I had aforementioned 2yo dd btw, who was screaming LOUDLY everytime I turned in a direction she wasn't happy with - aaaargh!

She's 15 now and at least the conversations are a bit more 2 way these days plus she has 3 younger siblings to talk to

Bertie I feel your pain (dd is 4). I hear people say "My teenager won't talk to me" and I think, "And your problem is?" .

My ears just bleed.

Snap Bertie

Yes in 6 years if I start a thread complaining my child won't talk to me anymore - slap me.

Yup. DD - almost 7 - talks non stop. And when she's excited or nervous it's a non-stop stream of consciousness.

A few weeks ago we went away on holiday. She talked non-stop - no exaggeration - all the way to H'row in the car, all through car-parking and check in, all through our 4 hour delay, all through the plane journey and all the way to the hotel, evening meal and only finally stopped when she fell asleep.

She talked so much, that when we arrived and were waiting for our luggage to come off the carousel, a man who'd been on the same delayed flight of us came up and said (I will always love this man) 'Your daughter's amazing. I've never heard anyone talk so much who actually had something to say. She's kept me entertained all day'.

It was soooo nice to hear as I was actually at the point of wanting to find a muzzle.

Well, she's 10 now, but still talks all the time (possibly not what you wanted to hear ).
In fact, she talks in her sleep as well, so it honestly is a lot of the time

Made me chuckle culturemulcher

Aw wish I had the same approach to my parenting as he does to his travelling. I'm more inclined to muzzle too.

Excited or nervous - yes I can relate to that.

nods furiously

I have a 3 and a 7 year old and they just never shut the fuck up.

Yes and her subject matter is extremely "niche" shall we say...Spongebob, nail care and how dreams work all feature highly at the moment.

Scooby Doo, clues and the relative benefits of various potential secret club passwords. Also the tales around scars, scabs and bruises. Including invisible ones.

treedelivery he was American. Perhaps he was charmed by her non-stop British accent?

Mine is only 4.5 & talks constantly. I kind of had a vain hope it might calm down a bit as she got older.

It doesn't help that I'm a classic introvert & need quiet to recharge my batteries. After the end of a day at home with DD I'm about ready to explode.

I just hope that once her little sister starts to talk she'll have someone to talk to so at least I'll only have to deal with the noise level & not have to be involved in the conversation all the time