You know we did LOUD parenting?

[InterruptingKid]

wel can i now just object to OVER conversation?

mum in town with kids in double buggy

kids offering a running commentary

mum REPEATING every thing the kid said

shut UP fgs he is talkign drivel and therefore so are oyu

I like CONFUSING parenting

3yo DD 'That man speaks funny'

Me 'Yes he's Australian'

DD 'What's Australian'

Me 'It's the term used for the indigenous people of a country in the southern hemisphere'.

Silence.

ooh flamingo!!

loud parenting

[raises hands]
guilty as charged IK

although in my defence the only parents I know who didn't/don't do this (because 'it's unnecessary and they feel silly') are now shitting themselves because the HV tore a strip off them when she discovered their 2.5yo can't say anything apart from 'milk' and 'mama'...

Maybe he wouldn't even be able to say them, toadstool, if you hadn't ever talked to him!

'Tis a proven way to develop children's social skills and language development

Guilty as charged

In my defence though, ds will keep saying the same thing over and over again until you repeat it so it's the only way to shut him up.

I have another child who repeats whatever he said until I repeat it. Like this

Ds2: car! car! car! Car! Car! Car! CAR! CAR! CAR! CARCARCAR! Mumma! CARCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCARCAR CARCARCARCAR

Me: car

Ds2: [blessed silence for a short while]

DS2: car!

Trouble is, I do it on autopilot and am now starting to repeat everything the Dh says, too.

"'that car is blue'
'yes, it's blue'
'it's a car'
'yes, correct, excellent observation'
'a blue car'
'yes, you've said that. So have you read any good books lately?'
'it was NOT a green car'
'Or films? Any good films?'
'It was a BLUE car. I saw it.'"

That sounds very familiar. DD gives a running commentary on life and we have to respond or she keeps repeating herself! It's soooo draining!

Eek. I was thinking about this the other day because I do it to DS3 (2.5).

In my defence, DS2 (4.5) has speech delay so to get him talking in the very early days we had to repeat/re-affirm any comment he made. So, have not broken the habit with DS3 , although he can speak for England.

guilty here too. In a vain hope that DS would pick up the correct pronunciation of words so it wasn't just DH and I who understood what he was saying. I think it worked.
It was SALT who told us that repeating back , acknowledging we had understood and modelling correct pronunciation was important. Still don;t always understand DS but he is getting better at finding alternative words or describing to make us understand what he is trying to say.

Right on FlamingoBingo

Now, Im a first time Mum to be...so Im no expert but correct me if Im wrong at any point.

Are you not suppoesed to be doing this with your children like fanjolina said "to develop children's social skills and language development"???

I will encourage my child to do it in the hope that we will be able to communicate and learn stuff together.
Couldn't give a shit who else hears or is annoyed by it

Yeah it can be annoying and the sound of other people kids can jar your head fair enough. But I dont like wiping shitty arses much and mopping up vomit but I am pretty certain that I will be doing this for my daughter when she is born, as it comes hand in hand with the job.

Why is everyone on this post "guilty" or explaining themselves "in my defence"??? What exactly is wrong here??

Cant be worse than seeing a child throwing an almighty strop in a supermarket surely, at least the child is behaving.

yes, but once your kids have got through that stage (like IK's) all reminders of the bits you have Finished With start to rankle

like cooing over ugly newborns
or nappies once yours are pottytrained
watchign people fanny about with bottles while yours swig milk from a glass

etc etc

LMAO hundredtimes I think we have twins!

Huwedwards (yes, it was ages ago, but it made me laugh). A lot. I do that.

This reminds me of parents who read out road signs:

It's XXXville, in shakespears' (sic) county.

It's nearly Little BottomHanger.

Oooh look, only 5 miles to Grimsville.

Etc Etc.

Done by my mum (only passengers can do it), apparently by my MIL, and now occasionaly done by me.....

And HuwEdwards I love your style- I have done similar, and it IS fun

Is confusing parenting the one where they ask "Why clouds" and you say, listen carefully, this is complicated...

I did loud parenting with DS1. Constant stream of inane chatter. I think I thought if I didn't speak to him every minute he'd never learn to talk. Yes, it IS good parenting, up to a point, but I didn't speak to DS2 nearly as much and he did OK. (admittedly, not a statistically valid sample, but you know what I mean).

My favourite loud parenting is "Ostentatious Disciplining/explaining". Normally practised with a tantrumming 2 or 3 year old in a toy shop. Parent with high, slightly panic-stricken voice, explaining why little Johnny can't have something, little Johnny completely off on one and unable to take anything in in the state he's in. Parent should really just take child outside but is very keen to show the world what a reasonable, not authoritarian person s/he is ...

Cod, you're outing yourself again .

Who, Me ?

I use the 'spurious science' parenting method myself.

But I do need to explain and repeat things because frankly otherwise every other word I hear is whyyyyyyyyyyy!