Re: incessant chattering

tedneeley@xxxxxxxxx wrote: 
My toddler (2.5 yo) asks questions a lot. Most of those is kinda
re-stating the obvious. When we are driving in a car, taking a walk,
pretty much any time we're outside or at home, she's constantly asking
questions.. Sometimes she asks same question repeatedly even if you
answer it the first time ("Mummy, what is this rabbit doing" about 10
times) She's smart and inquisitive. But sometimes I just need the
quiet. I don't want to tell her to stop talking (sometimes I do but she
won't). I know pretty soon a day will come when she becomes a teenager
and I'll be begging her to talk.. but how do you manage/channel these
types of incessant conversation?

She's quite smart. She's only 2.5 but already toilet trained and
recognizes all alphabets and numbers, recites more than 20 rhymes. I
guess this questioning is kinda asking for attention?

Thanks.


Join the club.

The advice I got (and didn't work for me, btw) was to turn it around and ask her what she thinks (e.g., "what do you think the rabbit is doing?").

What *I* did was answer the questions and if they continued, I began to make up stories from the questions. It provided me with at least some amusement for a while.

But when DD was 4, when her questioning got too out of hand - my answer leading to another question leading to another answer leading to another question leading to another answer leading back to the original question - I would impose a 3 or 4 question limit on her.

I don't think at 2.5 the questions are asking for attention. She's practicing her verbal skills (asking questions versus demanding) and she's curious. I know DD used to ask the same question over and over again if 1) I didn't answer the question or 2) she didn't like my answer.

Jeanne
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