besides turning tv on how do I get ds to stop talking???

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I am going mental.

He never shuts up.

It's "Mum"

he waits for me to say "yes"

Then some inane comment or question he already knows the sodding answer to.

Can I put duct tape on him tomorrow?

I have told him to be quiet ,but it invariably only lasts a few minutes.

When will it end?

how old is he? i've found it takes about 12 years. then they lock themselves in their room

tell him he has three questions at a time

I know it drives you crazy. How about foam ear plugs then just keep saying, 'Hmm. Really? Uh huh' etc randomly. I'm serious.

I am childishly mouthing "effing shut up" nehind his back fgs I need help!

three questions...hmm then how long till the next three...see I can see it now

" no 5 minutes isn't up yet ,no more questions"

trying being really sharp and talking over him

when my son shouts out i just say 'yes night night'

get him a kdis encyclopedia

ro a set of story cds

he's 5 in september...I am so lloking forward to him going to school.

That sounds quite awful .

ha no it doesn't! my 5 year old is hard work

I can stop my 5 year old from talking by feeding him! He loves all food so anything will work.
They do ask the most strangest questions at times. DS once asked me 'Do birds wee?' I have no idea where that came from. He also asked today if God has bigger feet than me.

feeding to stop talking works too

My 2 are 9 & 11 and never stop talking and asking questions.
At least we have grown out of
"what would you do if you were surrounded by 100's of dinosaurs?"

My dd1 couldn't sleep tonight so she came downstairs and we watched the last 10 mins of 'The man who went up a hill and came down a mountain' (or whatever it's called). No idea what happened, as all I got was 'Why are those people going up that hill?', 'Are they being cruel to those horses?', 'Why does that lady talk funny?' [huge apologies to all Welsh people], 'Is that man English?', 'Is that man English', 'Is she Welsh?', 'Why is that man snoring?', 'Why is he drinking beer? Won't he get drunk?', 'Why is the rugby man helping?', 'Why doesn't that man want to climb the mountain', 'Has that man got stiff?' 'Why is he whispering?' 'Ooh, is he dead?' 'Why are they putting him in a coffin? Why not just put him in the earth?', 'Why haven't they got electric lights?' 'Is it the olden days?', 'Is it nowadays yet?' and then the cracker 'What was that all about?'.

What indeed? She is asleep now. My head is still spinning with it all.

Oh, and all that just goes to prove that turnign the TV on doesn't necessarily help!

ds today drove the guy who was rebuilding the fence wall absolutely crazy. He went on asking questions for nearly 2 hours. He is extremely verbose.
and LOL at ellbell's dd

Ciao franca... I like your new name!

lol ellbell

ds said today

"mum-you'll miss me when I'm 100 ,because I'll be dead!"

[waves at ellbell]
lol ggirl

That reminds me of dd's 'If I eat lots of carrots I'll be able to see in the dark, so I'm going to eat lots of carrots and then, when I wake up in the night, I'll be able to see if it's light yet and I'll know if it's time to get up'.

Do what?

pmsellbell -you should write these down and remind her when she's older

I am so glad I am my dd's mum and not her teacher .

bloody hell can you imagine 30 of them ,I could NOT be a teacher if you paid me a fortune

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Is duct tape so bad?