14month old constantly winging

[chickenlittle]

Mine were, and still are at times, whingers too.

I remind my 3yo constantly when she whinges "talk to me in a normal voice please" "is that your normal voice or your yucky voice?" "is that the way to ask or is there a better way, without whinging, and in a normal voice?" etc etc

It works in the moment then she'lll forget again... but I'm trying to be consistent so she learns the right way to speak to me and others.

I think its very very common though. We just try not to give in to her requests if she's whinging for them, and reward her when she speaks properly and nicely.

[Butterfly Child]

Ohh hun i hear u my dd's 14 months too it must be a stage hopefully! it is horrible i know, ive been trying to distract dd when it starts. doesnt help with the new teeth coming through either.. hopefully we both can get through this stage lol

if u ever need a chat or vent pm me hun xx

[Miss.September]

Hugs hon, you are not a bad mum!!!! My DD is 13 months, so I'm sure this is coming up to me too, but she has her days! She's definately protesting against the word "NO" right now!

Corelly x

[Butterfly Child]

Awww corelly im with u there!!

Im having big issues with getting NO across to dd too

[curly173]

I know that Im late reading this, but my 14 month old did exactly the same thing for about 3 weeks and it was just SO tiresome. He shrieked and whined ALL day and he wouldn't even let me hug him. Then it got remarkably worse - then one day, pop a molar tooth plus a change of sleep cycle - turns out he wanted to go from 2 to 1 sleep per day. It was HELL and then it got better. Stay strong, it will pass.

[Junglemum]

14 months is such a difficult age for kids i reckon. They are old enough to know what they want and what they don't want but haven't quite got the communication skills. The result is generally a lot of whinging! My 14 month old is doing exactly the same thing. It was about this age that i started using a bit of sign language with DD1, we just used a few basic things like food, drink, nappy change and finished. That way i was helping her to communicate and she didn't need to whinge as much to get her point across. I've just started with DD2.

All kids whinge, but with my 2 i find this age particularly, involves a lot of whinging! It will get better.

[Mrs Jak]

Ohhhh, this is just like my nearly 14 month old and it's been a shock to the system, as our first was and is such an easy child...

I was a bit worried about it too, but now thanks to your posts I feel better!

Mine is not walking yet, so may be adding to his frustration?