Following the endless conversations in the car this afternoon that stressed me out beyond belief.....

[Blandmum]

.....Does anyone know how I should talk to my kids to stop them talking to me????

DD started talking at 11 months. She is now 10, and off hand, I don't think that she has ever stopped talking

i have a secret weapon at the emo

I once said, 'right the word Mummy is banned, no-one can use it in the car for the rest of the day'

Ds piped up 'Martian, do you know that......'

Relentless, bloody relentless.

Mind you MI and I talked non stop for 2 hours in Starbucks onFriday. I think the staff were quite impressed

do you want it?

what drives me most mad are questions about God. I think they have cottoned on that I'm Not Very Good at these questions and now they are coming non-stop.

we're too busy talking to listen cod

gawn, what's your secret weapon

aTHIs had 5 kdis aged 9 - 4 yrs in sielnce fro 20 minutes its evry funny

Yes please - is it wide parcel tape ?

best 'God' question we had was ds's

'Mummy, you know when they put the big Baby Jesus on the cross?'

'yessssss' worried what is coming thinks mummy ??

'Did they use glue?'

ds1 and dd are like this too. I never thought they were that bad until recently when dd went to a friends' for tea. The mother of her friend asked me in the playground the following morning if dd ever stopped talking at home. I think I have become immune to it over time .

get the cd

lol

(in bike shop driving bike man mad)

'did God have a bike'

(bike man looks at me, trying to weigh up if we are religious nutters)

me: 'no, I don't think so. Bikes weren't around then'

dd 'but God is always around mummy. That's what we learned at school. So God could have helped make bikes, couldn't he'

me: 'he had other things on his mind and besides, according to the story, God made people and people made bikes'

dd 'why is it a story? so God did help make bikes then even if he didn't make them himself and God is watching now while we buy this bike, isn't he mummy?'

(bike man looking around nervously)

oooh that looks good....I need some more CDs for the car to ensure a bearable driving experience

I have a 4yr old ds. I nearly crashed the car driving through bushy park when, in his normal mode of "constant chatter" the following came out as a monologue: "mum, will you die" "when?" "do we come back?" "I think we come back" and then changed the subject onto poo!
He wakes up singing and doesn't stop chattering, he follows you from room to room just talking at you!!
Help me please

Do none of you say "xyz just SHUP UP for 5 minutes please", or does that not work in your house either?

Give it three years or so and they'll be teenagers and only grunt at you.

Problem solved!

school rabbit. It's like respite care for us aurally challenged parents. People kept asking if I was sad when ds (my youngest) started school. They were tears of joy I tell you, not sadness. On his first day, I sat in the house for a few hours and READ A BOOK in silence.

in desperation we sometimes play the see-who-can-stay-quiet-the-longest game with dd, she can be very good at it, on the other hand, I wish my ds would talk, he is getting there, sometimes I think he can't get a word in edge ways.....

I can't believe how mean you all are to your children! Of course they want to share everything with you; you are the centre of their world. And the endless questions? Well, they are just being inquisitive, the precious darlings!

The Starbucks staff looked quite scared

Very

I think that they thought we'd had enough caffeine!

Aefondkiss - not sure how old your ds is? when I was nearly 2 my mum took me to the docs cos I didn't say a word, while there my bro (4 years older) didn't stop talking. Doc suggested that "maybe she can't get a word in?". I apparently started talking in sentances pretty soon after missing the single and two/three word stage altogether, and I think I can communicate fairly well nowadays
Unless you have other concerns about him then I wouldn't worry too much.

lol foxinsocks at God & the bike shop man.

Does anyone elses DC throw in a weird question repeatedly in amongst the wittering (so to catch you off guard)?

DD1 (3yrs)
blah blah, witter, whats for breakfast?, burble beebies please, drivvle, what top am I wearing tommorrow?, twaddle trees rabbits flumbbber twiidle when am I getting my willy?, blah di blah whats in a fish finger har har, oh look theres a sock......

me
yeah yeah whatever yes dear in a minute, WHAT?

i got heaing aids today (after an intermiable wait on the nhs) - have discovered that not only does dd1 talk constantly (running commentary on her life from 7am to 7pm) - it is also damn loud. at least i can take the hearing aids out - dh,ds and dd2 don't have that fortune.