Motor mouth
(Once again, my apologies for an extended absence. I know, what were once vices are now habits. I'll try to do better. This is a start.
Our 3-year-old is aggressively chatty. It's virtually a non-stop verbal stream, interrupted only by food, television and sleep.
And yes, I know this is endemic with kids, but trust me -- it seems he NEVER stops talking.
I'm guessing he just likes hearing the sound of his own voice. And that notion was reinforced this week when I asked him, "Do you really have to be talking all the time?"
"I can't help it, Daddy," was his reply. "It's what my body tells me to do."
Aha. So it IS organic, buried somewhere deep in his DNA. It's not a conscious decision to chatter nonstop. So, I'll go with it, because I understand its origins.
But there ARE times ...