Beth is like this, just does not stop. Sometimes I have actually asked her for 3 minutes silence (she can't get past one) and I'm ashamed to admit I actually lost my temper with her at once because I was having trouble focussing on the road and got lost, but that was only once.
She even makes up songs (we can thank her dad for that).
Maybe if we stick my dd and yours in a room together they would cancel each other out - he he
I have a 9yo talker and it has eased up a bit since she was 4. She'd narrate everything she did back then, down to a progress report on what the poop is doing when she's on the toilet. THAT has stopped at least, as has narration as she draws - but it didn't slow down until she was about 7. She gets pinged a lot at school for fidgetting and talking. I can't concentrate when I'm driving with her yabbering on either. And of course, she was an early talker so I've been getting this since she was not much past 6 months. The other one is near 18 months behind her in talking stage - and she's the normal one!
Now if she thinks you're in earshot she narrates everything on the TV (and then asks what is happening because she wasn't listening) and talks constantly during dinner about weird stuff, and generally runs into our study (or yells from the next room) very frequently to tell us what she's doing with her little sister and how fun it is or how much she hates her little sister and hates playing with her. At some stage she stopped talking to every random stranger she bumped into about her entire life story and is now "embarrassed" about talking to people to the extent she can't even order lollies from a shop, even if you get nasty and threaten that she can only have lollies if she orders them herself. I'm sure by the time she's a teenager she won't be speaking to me (or anyone else) at all.
Little one is the quiet type. Rarely narrates, so you can't tell what she's getting up to in the next room like with #1 when she was little, so you get little surprises like finding she's silently emptied a tissue box or something. She is more likely to ask us specific questions while the other one just yammered on constantly.
Mine also gets in trouble at school for talking and general distractedness. It wouldn't be so bad if she could talk and do something at the same time, but she can't...ie will stand there with weetbix box in hand for 5 minutes while she blarps on about some totally unrelated thing...and then insists she was "getting her breakfast" the whole time and wonders why she's running late *again*.
LOL same here! Words come out, nothing else happens. You wouldn't believe how long it takes her to eat dinner (actually you probably would ). We stopped eating breakfast with her absolutely years ago because she takes 45 minutes if there's someone there to talk to and about 2.3 minutes if she's alone. And she has this habit of standing in doorways, holding the door open, taaaaaaaaaalking while we all yell at her to shut the door. Its usually 8 outside and 18 inside at this time of year - sometimes she does it when it is 3 or 4 outside! Aaaargh lol!
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). We stopped eating breakfast with her absolutely years ago because she takes 45 minutes if there's someone there to talk to and about 2.3 minutes if she's alone. And she has this habit of standing in doorways, holding the door open, taaaaaaaaaalking while we all yell at her to shut the door. Its usually 8 outside and 18 inside at this time of year - sometimes she does it when it is 3 or 4 outside! Aaaargh lol!
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