I'm feeling quite mean...

My daughter went through this phase, too, and it drove me up the wall. In middle school she landed several roles in different musicals, and it got worse.

But it does pass, though. Eventually. You have my complete sympathy.

My daughter went through a phase like this about the same age. My answer: Sing along.

Sometimes it would shut her up. Sometimes we cut loose and totally had fun singing together (some of my favorite memories of her come from this). Sometimes she'd start singing quieter. Regardless of what her reaction was, singing along improved MY reaction to what she was doing.

But she stopped doing it incessantly in a short time after that.

Now when we sing together, it's because we want to--which gets interesting 'cause all her present favorite songs are in Korean and the way I butcher the lyrics sets us both to laughing hysterically.

Good luck.

Perks said:

My 11 year old daughter is going through a phase. I hope to god it's a phase. She sings. Constantly. And at the top of her lungs.

I am glad that she's a happy kid, but it's really annoying and it would be even if she had a particularly pleasant singing voice, which she unfortunately doesn't. She gets her feelings hurt when I tell her to knock it off.

I can't think straight even when she's in the shower. The pounding water and the closed door is no match for her pipes.

Aaaaagggghhhhhhh!

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I hear you. My six year old has similar habits. That, and when he's not singing, he's talking. And he doesn't stop talking. He tells you everything that is going through his head or has gone through his head for the entire day and some of what might happen tomorrow.

Right now, he's in talking his brother's ear off. In a little while he'll be back to chew on mine.

He's a good kid, but his report card always comes home with the note "needs to work on not talking so much".

In the shower, singing, in the car, singing...then talk talk talk talk talk talk.

He talks when other people are talking. If something comes into his head...he HAS to say it...and not in a minute when the other person is finished....NOW!

I feel mean sometimes, because I really just want silence. But, I know he desperately wants to communicate and that his endless talking is part of his love of friends, family, and life in general.

Of course, that doesn't keep that voice in my head from screaming inside the confines of my brain: "Oh FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, BE QUIET!!"

Send her to Simon Cowell?

MY sister went through this phase and it was really annoying when she would sing at the top of her lungs while me and my brothers tried to play video games - when we did play video games.

Mine's 14 and still in it. She has an okay voice, but doesn't understand that singing along to YouTube doesn't count as practice. We'd get her lessons, but she doesn't have the discipline to stick with them. As soon as it's work, she's done with it!

She might not grow out of it. My mom is 63 and has been compulsively humming "Yellow Submarine" for eight years now. Dad's spent a lot of time in the Man Cave for the last eight years...

Perks said:

My 11 year old daughter is going through a phase. I hope to god it's a phase. She sings. Constantly. And at the top of her lungs.

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that's why God created duct tape

Mine's 7 and has ADHD. The medication helps her quiet down to 'normal 7 year old level,' but if she hasn't taken it, oh my god. She'll sing at the top of her lungs and she'll talk. Constantly. And when I mean constantly, I mean to the point that my 3 year old niece turned to look at her one day in the car and said (I kid you not), "Stop talking, why are you such a chatterbox?" It was hysterical, and oh-so-true.

I'd suggest earplugs.

I used to sing while I would swing on my tree swing and think that no one could hear me


boy was I embarrassed when I found out otherwise.

ether said:

Mine's 7 and has ADHD. The medication helps her quiet down to 'normal 7 year old level,' but if she hasn't taken it, oh my god. She'll sing at the top of her lungs and she'll talk. Constantly. And when I mean constantly, I mean to the point that my 3 year old niece turned to look at her one day in the car and said (I kid you not), "Stop talking, why are you such a chatterbox?" It was hysterical, and oh-so-true.

I'd suggest earplugs.

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Your three year old niece has much better manners than my 2 year old princess...of course, she spends her time in the car sandwiched between my boys...so...maybe this is why... The other day her response to the chatosaurus next to her was "Just shut up, already!"

My guy doesn't have adhd, but his mouth does. I'm afraid it's catching because my princess is turning chatterbug, too. The main reason she wanted him to shut up was so that she could talk...

I think all parents could definitely benefit from an investment in a quality set of earplugs.

ether said:

Mine's 7 and has ADHD. The medication helps her quiet down to 'normal 7 year old level,' but if she hasn't taken it, oh my god. She'll sing at the top of her lungs and she'll talk. Constantly.

I'd suggest earplugs.

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This, only mine's a 9-year-old boy.

Jamie, Jamie, Jamie, did you learn nothing last summer?

Repeat after me: "Shut up or I'll send you back to the nasty Scottish lady."

I can relate! My daughter's ten and if I have to hear chopsticks played at top volume on our out-of-tune piano one more time I'm gonna lose it. I know, I know, I could get the piano tuned but who has time to arrange THAT?!

Hey, maybe you can get her tuned!

::hums theme to mayberry AND barney::

ah there's jamie, uhm. here.

Perks said:

She'd go, you know. The girls liked you very much!

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Two children liked me?

Dear God. My reputation ruined by a couple of well-behaved, pretty relatives of yours. The shame.

No accounting for taste.

Screw you, Fuzzface.