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

We always used to sing on car journeys. It wans't till I grew up and had children of my own that I realised it was all a cunning plan by my parents to stop us arguing with each other.

I tried a 'I know, let's play a game to see who can not talk for longest' and ds1 vomited in the car with the stress and unfamiliar strangeness of it.

After about 90 seconds.

When DD went to play with her new best friend for the first time the mother dropped her back and said 'You know, I used to think that she was quiet". She just looked at me and shook her head. I think she was in shock.

turn the radio up. loud. I mean really loud. Preferably dance music. It shuts them up - admittedly only temporarily, but it does.

Makes mine cry.

MB, when you're DD turns 13, she'll suddenly stop talking to you for about five years.

oh god the singing. It is cute but doesn't really provide a break from the talking. Also its often along the lines of one word or phrase repeated endlessly in a tuneless dirge.

I have the radio on loud in the car mostly cos a) if I don't he complains non-stop (that was fun when my radio was broken ) and b) it gives me a break from the endless chattering.

Bless him he's lovely really, but I now realise why dp's aunt gave me earplugs as a new baby present (and it wasn't for the crying)

omg it was all i could do not to throw them all out of the car this afternoon

dd2 had a friend for tea, and they started chatting non stop about nothing at all for the entire journey, combined with the boys blithering on about chewing gum, it was almost more than i could bear

i wouldnt mind too much but they kept trying to include me in the convos

Actually, DD1 talked at (I wouldn't say to) DD2 quite solidly for the 35 minutes to DD2's childminder this morning. Result, I thought. DD2 was silenced by the absolute barrage.

It's got worse. I've lost my voice. I can't talk back! With anyone over the age of ten or so that would be okay, they'd just stop after a while, with a three-year-old it's just an invitation to keep on comin'. Fortunately DD was in nursery today, and will be tomorrow and Thursday. Hope I have a voice by Friday, weakly wheezing 'please just listen to me' could get old very quickly. OTOH, we ARE going to visit the friend of the circular breathing, so SHE can talk for me.

lol

circular breathing reminds me of a tenacious d track

I am sure this is a temporary 'hitch' but we are breeding people who will turn in to other people's PILs and DH/DW's......please I beg you to join me on my mission to make sure that they get their talking under control SOMEHOW. My MIL is an utter nightmare.......the wittering is unbelievable - suffice to say she doesn't have many visitors!

My DD is one of these talkers. When she left a year ago to live with her dad the house seemed so so quiet but she still does me up at weekends and I have to mentally tell myself how much I miss her wittering.

Some of her car questions from the past include

'Where is that man going?'
'If you were in a car with the windows closed and the radio on would someone outside the car be able to hear the radio?'
'Are we going the right way?'

Just last Sunday in the car she asked me this:

'Do many people get struck by lightning?'

(she will be 15 in 2 weeks' time)

The most noticeable feature of her questions is that they require long complicated answers, which bore her and she doesn't bother listening.

She also bombards me during meals. I always finish eating last. I counted 30 questions once when I decide to count during a meal (only a couple of years ago). If you say anything she gets the hump.

Believe me though, it is horrible when suddenly that child is gone and the noise stops.

oh my ds doesnt shut up either. I have tried the silent treatment but I get. 'did you hear me or are you deaf' and MUM MUM you didnt answer me.

I try turning my music up after a while and he does tend to quieten down rather than comepete then.

compete, whoops!

I love this thread.

I am in a minority though, it would seem, I rather like the wittering

PMSL at number wittering

This thread is hialrious.
I too have tried the "let's see who can keep quiet the lognest" except I do it at home as well as in the car. I have also tried "let's see who can go the longest time without saying mum".
DS1, who is 9 has now started saying Can I ask you something? then we get a question, usually about what a word means eg.
"Can I ask you something?"
Me "Yes"
"What does hypochondria mean".

They also seem to be on a mission to talk as loud as possible just in cast the lady at the top fo teh street didn't hear them, and they try to outdo each other by both talking at once about completely random things. They are 9 and 7 and I'm wondering how much longer it will go on for

We were at the Doctors a couple of days ago and there was about 30 people in the waiting room. DD has a chest infection and I explained that the Doctor needed to Look At My Bits.

In the waiting room DD started explaining loudly to an old man that she had a bad cough and I WAS SO TERRIFIED so was going to start talking about my bits that I could almost feel myself starting to have a stroke there and then

My whole body wanted to shriek DONOTMENTIONMYBITS! DONOTMENTIONMYBITS! DONOTMENTIONMYBITS! DONOTMENTIONMYBITS!

Fortunately she just rambled at length about her bad chest and various ailments

It was the most stressful ten minutes of my whole life

lol

i had to take dd1 with me to the doc once when she was abour 2 or 3, and i had to be examined in a rather personal area, now dd1 didnt actually see anything going on, but drew her own (wrong) conclusions

as we came back into the waiting area, dd1 turned to the first person she could find and said REALLY loudly "my mummy has a sore bottom!"

i legged it

We have number wittering as well - I did not realise it was a recognised condition. I'm not sure that knowing that makes it much more bearable.

My two are very, very talkative and seem to have an agreed pact never ever to let silence reign. They have their own areas of specialisation. DS's involves number wittering (see above) and low level commentary/muttering, even if he is in a room by himself; DD's is singing wittering.

"Fortunately she just rambled at length about her bad chest and various ailments"

MP sounds like DD is practising for when she is an old lady!

DS1 (8) started talking at 11 months and hasn't stopped yet either... I do hold out hope for the monosyllabic teenage years.

I've just got the book "how to talk so kids will listen and how to listen so kids will talk" and my first thought was "How on earth do I get them to shut up long enough for me to read this book?" My second thought was "Why do I want to find out how to listen so they'll talk more??

As an aside, I put one of rthose free Famous Five story CDs in the car for a 1.5 hour journey. Neither DS uttered a word for the whole journey

BabyDragon (15 months) talks constantly too. In gibberish. Last night I discpvered her doing it in her sleep and giggling. There is no hope for me at all.