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Alamb

Author/Television Reporter

Amanda Lamb is a professional television journalist and author. She covers murder trials by day and reads Dora the Explorer to her children at night. Somewhere in between all of that she writes about those parenting moments that catch each us off-guard in a crazy, chaotic, and wonderful way. Aman...

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Amanda Lamb

Recently my four-year-old has been getting in trouble in preschool for talking too much.  I take full responsibility for this issue. 

From the moment my girls were born I talked to them (and often sang to them, poorly).  Before they could talk I would talk to them about the world around them, tell them stories, and of course talk about how much I loved them.  As soon as they could talk, I started to engage them in two way conversations about their likes, dislikes, about their day.  One of the first full sentences my youngest daughter said was:  “Mommy, how was your day?”  She was so used to me asking her the same thing.

Bottom line, we talk all the time.  We talk while I fold laundry, we talk while they’re in the tub, we talk while we grocery shop, we talk while we’re riding in the car.  Now I have to figure out how to teach my daughter how to keep quiet at the appropriate times.

The wonderful thing is that she is a delightful child with an incredibly happy disposition.  She is equally loved by children and other adults in her life.  She doesn’t want to misbehave or let anyone down.  She’s just so enthusiastic about life that she can’t help herself.  I don’t want to dampen that enthusiasm in any way.

I guess, at the end of the day, the best way to deal with it is to sit down and have a good talk about it!