Do 5 year olds EVER quit talking?

[Oh Haha]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

Just answer like this:

Do bats bite?
Yes, but only 5-year-olds'

Do bats drink blood?
Yes, but only 5-year-olds'

Do you drink blood?
Sometimes.

Does Mommy drink blood?
Sometimes, but less often than I do

Does Sarah drink blood?
Yes.

Can we watch shark videos?
In a little while.

Is the sun still up?
Look outside and tell me.

how come the sun is still up
Because they haven't come to take it away yet.

How come I can't see it?
Because your eyes are closed.

Will the bats be out tonight?
Yep, and they'll be looking for YOU.

can we look for them in front?
sure.



Have some fun with it.

I do most times. Depending on the topic I'll either give him a true answer or throw something funny out there.
Whenever they ask "what are you doing Daddy?" I answer "building an airplane". My Dad used to tell us that.



oh, and the 911 does NOT have welded shut doors like the General Lee.

Yep, he climbed through the PS window of the 911 today. YOW!!!!

No damage but we had a talk about the proper way to enter a car.

[onlycafe]

Originally Posted by Oh Haha

No damage but we had a talk about the proper way to enter a car.

teach him this.......

[epbrown]

One of my cousins was that age when our grandfather passed. Everyone was trying to console my grandmother, make arrangements, and Megan just wouldn't stop nattering. I said "Kid, I'll give you a twenty bucks to be quiet for 30 minutes." "Really? Sure!" I take a twenty from my wallet, tear it in two, and give her one half. "You'll get the other in 30 minutes." "Oh my god! You tore up the money!!" "Want to start again?" "..."

Give her credit - she almost made it 15 minutes.

One thing I love about being an uncle/older cousin - it really frees up your options when dealing with kids. Bribery, blackmail, coercion, pretty much anything you'd use on a Chicago alderman is back on the table when it's not your kid. For my nephews, I invented Go Away Juice - I give'em a few bucks to run to the store for some all the time, but only we know what it is, I just say "Guys, can you run and get me some juice?" I swear it was years before my sister noticed they never came back with anything but candy.

[red-beard]

some of us never stop...

[onewhippedpuppy]

Hi-C + rum = peace

[Nathans_Dad]

The short answer is no. 6 year olds don't stop talking either.

I try to be patient but I must admit I sometimes tell him to catch a bubble in his mouth and not pop it.


That usually works for about 3 seconds.

[psychII]

my kids are 7 and 6 and still ask questions; some are silly, some are actually good.

I will answer the good questions honestly, the questions with obvious answers with "what do you think?", and the silly questions with a silly answer.

So, sometimes they learn something, sometimes they come up with the answer themselves, and sometimes we just have fun.

[DanielDudley]

There is no such thing as Vampires.

Batman is just a man in a costume, and movies aren't real.

Real bats bite, but we don't play with them, so they don't bother us.

Mommy and Daddy love you, and would never let anybody hurt you.

BTDT. Screw the T-shirt, I want a medal.

[repp]

duct tape and zip ties.

[Don Plumley]

They seem to stop in high school. Then the silence is deafening. Pulling a sentence out (except when they want some money) is like torture. You'll miss 5. I do.


(Okay, there are some bright spots; they become designated drivers, don't need to be chauffeured everywhere, they can cook for themselves and at times you are allowed a brief moment to be proud of what nice people they are turning into.)

[VINMAN]

Cherish it while you can. Once they hit their teens, all the talking stops.




Except when they want money......

[Jims5543]

Originally Posted by VINMAN

Cherish it while you can. Once they hit their teens, all the talking stops.




Except when they want money......

I have a 5 y/o and a 15 y/o and they are at each end of the spectrum. My 5 y/o is too smart for his own good and would never fall for 1/2 the lines fed you the o/p's kid, he drives me nuts because if you do not give a concise well thought out answer to a question, it will never stop.... well it never does stop regardless.

I am extremely lucky, my 15 y/o is by buddy and he loves to hang out with me. We just got back from Fastpats this weekend where we went thought a ton of ammo together and fell a tree with bullets and shotgun blasts from 50+ yards out. All the 15 y/o did all the way home was talk guns and future purchases. Plus he digs cars too and has an E30 we wrench on together. He is about to do his 1st AX this summer.

Find common interests with them, be it video games (I am known to grab a controller and play xbox with him) cars, guns, etc..

I am having a ball with both of mine, my 5 y/o shot the Marlin .22 for the first time this weekend. That was cool for both of us.

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by Oh Haha

My God, our 5 year old talks constantly!!!

I have a cat.

[peppy]

Maybe I should rethink the speech therapy for my son.

[gr8fl4porsche]

I've been teaching my 5 yo the definition of annoying.

I don't mind the questions, it's when they repeat them every 3 seconds until you stop what you are doing and answer is what drives me nuts.

[T77911S]

yes, when they are teenagers, then you cant get them to tell you anything.

[cstreit]

Wow... Sometimes I wonder if my 4 year old breathes through his ears, because I swear I've heard him talk non-stop without taking a breath for 5 minutes straight. He just wanders from one tangent to the next without ever actually going anywhere.

...and watch out when he starts (as he calles it) "imagine talking" in which he spins a yarn.. It's completely unreal.

However ask him what happened in school today? "Nothing" and "I don't remember".

[Amail]

I'd forgotten about this, but I guess I was the same as a kid.

One day, a bit later in life, I asked my dad a question, and he said "That's a rosebush question". I asked him what that meant, and he said when I was little I once asked "If you drop a bowling ball from an airplane and it lands next to a rosebush, will all the flowers drop off"? So, I learned that he coined a pretty useful term, that I asked stupid questions as a kid, and that I apparently hadn't learned to stop asking stupid questions.

Kinda pissed me off at the time.

[Oh Haha]

However ask him what happened in school today? "Nothing" and "I don't remember". [/QUOTE]



+1


"Jake, did you tell your buddies at school how much fun we had at the zoo and the park over the weekend?"

"No, I forgot".



me-oh

[glewis80SC]

+1 cherish while you can, it is tough to pull info out of my 14yo, my 9yo daughter still talks a mile a minute.....i love it, the questions and thoughts they come up with are the beat.... when she is really going i tell her she has diarrhea of the mouth!!!