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The squealing anymore. For the last several weeks gfg has been talking with a really high pitched, squealy voice and I'm about to pull my hair out. I am so ready for school to start. I need a few hours of peace!!
Me
DH
GFG 11 YO DD Bipolar taking 1200 mg Trileptal,150 mg Wellbutrin, Benedryl and Melatonin to sleep
PC/GFG 10 YO DD ADHD taking 36 mg Concerta, .1 mg
Clonidine and 3 mg Melatonin to sleep
PC 8 YO DD
PC 4 YO DS
Something to try:
Read books to your little one when GFG is near by. Use different styles with your reading - maybe each character has a different tone, maybe each page is read with a different tone. (The 3 Little Pigs would be wonderful - wolf gets gruff voice and pigs get squeaky voice similar to GFG's.
The goal, GFG may hear the fun you are having with reading with the variety of tones from low gruff, to whisper, to normal, to squeaky, ect. that maybe he will start practicing one of the non squeaky ones?
Try to let your little one (within GFG's hearing) know how the different tones will be used and maybe ask how the narrator should sound. For example, in the 3 Little Pigs, would your 4 year old like the narrator to have a calm soft voice or a face jumpy voice?
If GFG would let you read to him that would be fantastic but seeing the age, not many 11 year olds are still willing for mom and dad to read to them (though my Diva did when she was 10 or 11 and going through a rough time).
Andy
Dh - married 23 years
Me- 49 yrs old
DD diva - 21 yr old daughter - hates mom less as each day goes
GFG 15 yr old son dx with deep anxiety and migrane varient - 30 mg Citalopram (Celexa) for anxiety, Vitamin D, multi-vitamin, and vitamin B-2 for migrane, and 5 mg Amphetamine (Adderal) 3X per day for ADD
Bichon Friese "diva puppy" DOB: 01/31/08
Goldendoodle "sweet puppy" DOB: 05/17/10 - 03/27/11, lots of tears!
"Chewy" DOB: 03/18/11 (sweet puppy's sister)
I think that would drive me crazy! I can understand why you are ready for school to start!!
Sharon, teacher
dh of 20 years-don't know what I'd do without him
gfg 14 years-old son adopted at birth-premature by 3 months-birth mother use crack,-bipolar, ADHD, Cognitive Disorder Not Otherwise Specified, Severe dyslexia taking clazapine, loxapine, gabapentin, clonidine during the day for help with ADHD symptoms.
pc/gfg 18 year-old daughter, also adopted, taking generic of Welbutrin for depression and Risperdal (sp?).
My tactic is pretty simple when it comes to stuff like this. Whether it's a funny voice, a tantrum or an attitude problem I expect to be approached in a certain way if gfg or any other kid I am overseeing wants something. It sounds a lot like this:
"If you ask me politely I may say yes."
"If you stop whining I may be able to hear you, I can't hear you right now I am deaf to whines."
...tantrums I pretty much ignore and simply refuse to respond to.
In your case I would be delicate since your gfg is only 11 but I would say something like this;
"If you want my attention/that snack you are asking for/to play that game (ect.) please ask me in the right voice. The squealing voice is okay for play but it isn't okay for talking to people."
The squealing may continue for awhile but if you stand firm your gfg will quickly learn what voices you do and do not respond to. I've had this trick work with all sorts of kids in a lot of age groups, gfg and pc alike.
p.s. It would annoy me too!
gfg: 16 y.o. Cyclothymia, possible Adhd, some OD, possible CD, delayed motor skills, several slight learning difficulties...outwardly seems average. Zyprexa.
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