Help! Shouty toddler

[MurkyGloom]

I have a 17 month old boy. He’s sweet, clever and high energy. Both my husband and I are quiet people. We tend to be softly spoken and generally not loud. Until about three weeks ago, our son was like that. He would speak normally and whisper a bit. Suddenly he’s found his voice and keeps on shouting. It’s driving me insane. He does this as part of a normal conversation when he has our full attention, we’re making eye contact, etc. He’s not looking for attention or anything like that. We definitely can’t risk taking him to a cafe or anything anymore because he’ll yell the place down. He’s currently having a nap and instead of chatting until he felt tired enough to lie down (5 mins max normally), he shouted himself to sleep. I was with him the whole time.

Anyone had this? Any advice on how to stop it?

My toddler is a bit like this, he sings himself to sleep at fully volume. Is this such a big deal? I think accept you have a toddler and toddlers are noisy. If it was somewhere inappropriate I would tell mine to be quieter but generally in your own house etc why does this matter.

I have an almost 15 month old boy and he likes to yell a bit too. And is generally quite loud. I love it - the more noise he makes and tries out sounds the better I think. But as previous poster said, if we are out and about I engage him more quietly. I'm also aware that he's at the stage where everything is a challenge so if he's told no or stop he wants to overcome it somehow! He threw food on the floor for a while and enjoyed a reaction from me so I stopped reacting completely and he stopped. Maybe worth a shot with the shouting if it bothers you?

He's learning and exploring - in this case exploring his voice. It's not a big deal and completely normal. You probably had a shouty stage too. I'll tell mine to be quieter when we're out so people don't think I'm a crap parent but it makes no difference! 😆

Wait. He's just exploring the new sound he's discovered.

With DD I reduce interaction when she's shouty and increase again when she's quiet/calm - subtle reinforcement but no discipline as such.

Thanks for the responses. I suffer from reoccurring ear infections and regular migraines, so the noise really does get to me at times. I do understand that it’s all a learning curve but at the moment, it’s driving me insane.
I’m not going to punish him, but any form of distraction doesn’t seem to work.

Mines a little older but when he shouts I respond with whispers and find a lot of the time he copies me