I say these words too many times a day. Sometimes, I even include the words open mouth and insert food. See, the boy has a real problem eating. And by that I mean, he loves to talk (mainly at inappropriate times like while eating, while anyone else is talking, and especially while you are going to the bathroom).
His talking started out as a good thing. Family conversations while eating are a good thing, right? Well in my case the answer is no. Here's why....it generally takes the boy about an hour to finish eating ANYTHING. When we give him a popsicle it usually melts before he can finish. He reports that he is hungry every time I pick him up from school because "they don't give him enough time to eat his lunch." I talked to the teacher and she says that he talks during lunch to the point that he has to sit by the teacher or her assistant in order to get him to eat the small bit that he does.
At a loss of what to do to encourage him to talk at different and more appropriate times, we have tried many things.
1. Riding in the car with radio off......I try this everyday. I ask him lots of questions and he responds with one word answers. After about 5 minutes, he starts asking me to please turn on the radio, and he continues to ask every few minutes for the entire drive.
2. No TV until he talks about his day....all he talks about is what cartoon he is missing. Then he starts to cry because he has missed cartoon and ends up losing tv for the day (which is not such a bad thing, unless you are the one that has to listen to the all day tantrum).
3. Board Games...These encourage lots of talking about the game, mainly how the other person or people are playing wrong...and some cheating, but that is another post all together.
4. Arts and Crafts...This one is working the best! He will talk about the craft that we are doing, crafts he has done in the past and crafts he wants to do soon.
All day long, I cannot get him to talk about his day, things he learned in school or pretty much anything, but , without fail, as soon as you put the food in front of him, he finds he has so much to talk about.
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