Wonder03
03-02-2003, 05:30 PM
What would you do if, your daughter has been acting really silly and using baby language. At first it would be funny, but then it would get annoying. What would you do? Thank you
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snowbug
03-02-2003, 07:18 PM
It depends....how old is she?
Marie55
03-02-2003, 08:32 PM
How old is she?
Older children resort to using baby language to get attention. Try to give her undivided attention at the appropriate times and when she needs it. Then, there will be no excuse for trying to get attention in the negative way.
Marie
Older children resort to using baby language to get attention. Try to give her undivided attention at the appropriate times and when she needs it. Then, there will be no excuse for trying to get attention in the negative way.
Marie
mommyof5
03-11-2003, 07:47 AM
How old is she? My 7 year old does that (she' been doing it for years on and off), but it's all out of fun and acting cute. My only concern was that her little sister (13 months younger) is speech delayed and I wanted to have everyone speak normal so she would learn to speak properly, but it hasn't hindered her. Could she be doing it just to be cute? Is she doing it all day? Or just at specific times?
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niecsey
03-11-2003, 04:25 PM
my 9 yr old stared doin that for while when i had another baby http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/bang.gif
H.Kondriac
03-30-2003, 06:50 PM
Yes, my 9 year old son has always done that. He just starts using baby language and gets a silly look on his face. I have always looked for ways to stop him from doing it but nothing has really worked. Then the other day I came up with a way that I am in the process of working on now. Whenever he decides to use the baby language and act like that I take him by the hand and then set him at the kitchen table and I put a paper and pencil in front of him and make him write his ABC's down because that is what babies have to learn. Then when he gets them wrote down I say to him, Now you act like a big boy, not a baby. This seems to be working really well. It is not a punishment or anything. It is just sort of like a time out for him to think about the way he is acting. I think this will work for him. I don't know what the cause of this action is. He says that he acts like that sometimes because he wants to be a baby again and doesn't want to go to school. He wouldn't be caught dead acting like this outside of the family. LOL!
Wheresrunt
04-07-2003, 04:53 PM
My seven year old has done it a few times. I just tell him " I don't have babies in the house anymore so you have to talk to me like a big boy because i can't understand what your saying." That works with him.
H.Kondriac
04-18-2003, 10:14 PM
I just wanted to post a follow up of my technique I used with my 9 year old son. He acted like a baby on 4 more occasions. Each time I made him write his ABC's. I do not have a problem with him acting like a baby anymore. I am glad I have found something that FINALLY stopped it!!!!!! Sometimes the simplist techniques are the ones that end up working.
H.Kondriac
04-18-2003, 10:14 PM
Wonder03:
Let us know if you have found something that works with your child.
[This message has been edited by H.Kondriac (edited 04-18-2003).]
Let us know if you have found something that works with your child.
[This message has been edited by H.Kondriac (edited 04-18-2003).]