Constant whining

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How do you guys deal with constant whining from your toddler? It almost seems she’s whining out of habit now, like not anything in particular. She’s just making whining noises a lot

I am understanding when she’s unhappy about something in particular but as I said it seems like a lot of the whining is just a habit. Do I tell her to stop in these situations?

If it makes any dif, she isn’t talking yet but she definitely understands everything. And I can tell she’s not whining for my attention or anything, like right now she’s reading her books and seems happy but is making whining noises randomly

I don’t think a minute has gone by where she hasn’t whined tonight lol

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I think I’d play it off as if she’s talking. Like, respond to it as if she were saying words. “Yeah, you’re right! I see that (characters in the book are doing xyz)!” I don’t know how old your little one is, but I think because she isn’t verbal yet, I’d consider this a form of communication and encourage it as that leads to more development of skill and could lead to verbal communication

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How old is she? It’s a little tough if she’s not talking and just making noises. If she is just having an off moment here or there I comfort but if it’s a habit it’s fair to address it. When my daughter whines I have always told her calmly and nicely “oops, that’s not how we communicate! We don’t whine, we ask for it like this..” and then model how to communicate without whining. That has always worked well but she has been talking well since before she was 2. She just turned 5 and up til now hasn’t done a ton of whining but is currently in a whining phase and I am reminding her a lot through the day at the moment that we don’t whine to communicate. I also sometimes tell her it bothers my ears listening to those noises, if you just feel like you want to whine you can go in the other room lol

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A✨ • Dec 21, 2022
Yes it will pass! My son just turned 2 and talks less than my daughter did. He whines all the time to communicate. I just ignore it and tell him how to ask me and then give him what he wants. It’ll click eventually 😅

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She’s 2, but exactly that’s the problem! I wish I could tell her to use her words but she isn’t yet and I know that will cause more frustration! If I know why she’s whining I do explain it and try and give her an example of how to ask for help or whatever she needs. But I just know she won’t apply it yet but at least she’s taking it in hopefully. I have definitely told her the whining bothers me lol. But in the meantime I feel like we just have to deal with whining lol. Thank you for your advice!

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Is it just really recently? Since she’s not talking I’d wonder if it’s just something she’s learned to do so she’s doing it a lot. In which case I’d say she’ll stop on her own and move on to something else.

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You know she’s been doing it awhile but it’s not usually this much. I was kind of wondering if it was a phase too! I hope 😅😆