Anyone Have This Kid?

[dave4him]

--I can see you are eating
--I can see that you have something yummy
--I can see that you made 2 sandwiches
--I can see that you ate one of your sandwiches
--I can see that you are drinking
OMG!!!!! GO AWAY!!!!!

Sounds like my youngest daughter! She is two but she always knows! If i am playing Angry Birds, if i am sneaking an Oreo, anything! Clearly she has a radar build in.

[Bookworm]

Lord Jesus in Heaven! I have two, a boy and a girl, and it drives me up the wall.

Me sitting and cutting out paper:
Ms. Teacher are you cutting paper?
Me: You tell me.
DCK: Yes

Me pouring milk:
Ms. Teacher, are you pouring milk?
Me: You tell me.
DCK: Yes

Now do this for about six hours and you have my day. I love both of these DCKs to death. They are some of the best kids I've ever had, but this habit drives me crazy. Why do kids do this?

[dave4him]

My niece is repeating everything these days.... but i think that comes from when she was smaller and we did that with her to confirm what some things were or what we were doing. Kind of asked ourselves for it i guess.

[TigerLily]

The obvious questions drive me batty! I vary my answer between "What AM I doing?" and "I am riding on an elephant!" The second one usually gets me "No, not an elephant! Making lunch!" And they wander away

[Evansmom]

Yes, i have that DCG and her family is moving at the end of the month thank goodness!

Why are you eating that?
Why did you pick that up?
Why did that break?
Why is that green?
Why did you put on that sweater?
Why why why???

I always say "why do YOU think?"

[rmc20021]

Sounds like my ex husband...

He used to drive me crazy. He constantly asked me what I was doing...yes, a grown man.

Finally one day I couldn't take it any more and was tired of trying to be so nice about the obvious. He asked me what I was doing...I said "I'm flying a kite!!! What does it look like I'm doing!"

He never asked again...

[Starburst]

Lord Jesus in Heaven! I have two, a boy and a girl, and it drives me up the wall.

Me sitting and cutting out paper:
Ms. Teacher are you cutting paper?
Me: You tell me.
DCK: Yes

Me pouring milk:
Ms. Teacher, are you pouring milk?
Me: You tell me.
DCK: Yes

Now do this for about six hours and you have my day. I love both of these DCKs to death. They are some of the best kids I've ever had, but this habit drives me crazy. Why do kids do this?

I think it has alot to do with when they are babies and their parents/ caregivers narrate everything everyone is doing. Then the child grows up thinking that it is weird if you don't narrate everything you are doing and wondering. Don't get me wrong it is a great way to teach babies vocabulary but there are some drawbacks to that as apparently everyone on here can see. I think too much focus on talking to babies is the actions and what is visual and not enough on just conversation- just talking out loud to the baby like a real person instead of patrinizing them all the time.

If parents just talk to them more and not always focus on actions (or question) so much but actual conversations (even if they are one-sided for a while) they will learn MORE vocubulary that way. Like telling them a funny story, talking about your day or your childhood memeries or even just reading; as long as the conversation is not too stress inducing. I think when you talk to them more about mental concepts than just what is visual concepts they will become deeper thinkers instead of a 'surface thinker' as my ECE teacher would call it. It will also help create a stronger bond between the child and the adult; I never heard of a strong relationship based on the fact that the sky is blue .

[Sprouts]

I think its just the kid and their own built in personality

My daughter is like this..especially during a movie...I call her 1,001...she asked me why, and i said becuase you ask 1,000 and one questions! sometimes i get annoyed but I actually dont mind answering all of her questions...i know I will miss this when she gets older....