Cute. Hah.

[ailbhe]

The self-consciously cute, nasal, high-pitched baby-voice can stop ANY TIME NOW. Emer is three, she knows how to speak such that I don't want to hit my head on the wall.

To be fair, she does amend it when I ask her reasonably, it's only when I'm at the end of my tether she pushes it.

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[serene]

I don't know if this will help you, but I had a standard response to that, and to whining: "I don't respond to X." It was funny one day, in the car with one of the kids' friends, and the friend started whining about something. Simultaneously, both of my kids said to him, "Aunt San doesn't respond to whining!"

[ailbhe]

I say "Emer's own voice," when she's using the baby voice to address me, but it's annoying even when she isn't. And I just say "You're whining," when they're whining. It works pretty well for whining.

I think annoying pretend voices are just a small-child thing but I have a low tolerance for them. We used to close the windows when the child next door did it.

[mrs-redboots.livejournal.com]

Could you develop funny ears that don't hear that silly voice, but can hear perfectly well when a normal voice is used?

[ailbhe]

She's not stupid enough for that. I just say "Emer's own voice, please," for the pretend-baby voice, or "You're whining," for whining.

The pretend-baby voice is annoying even when it's not directed at me, though.

[mrs-redboots.livejournal.com]

Nor was Emily that stupid, but it made her laugh, which usually jolted her out of whatever mood had caused the whining in the first place.

[ailbhe]

Whining is less of an issue because it happens addressed to me - I just say "You're whining," and they stop. The pretend voice thing happens at random, depending on what games they are playing, and I hates it.

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

Elena's best friend cannot pronounce R or L - it all comes out W - which Elena frequently imitates. The two of them also have a silly baby-talk secret language they speak together. And Elena's been playing with ideas of regression: googoo, gaga..... When she goes that far, we usually start in with "Oh, it's naptime for babies; babies don't get to go X" (where X = fun thing we're about to do). But honestly, we usually get the best results by saying "Elena voice, please."

[ailbhe]

I think a certain amount of stupid voices is legit and reasonable, except that it drives me mad. Certainly a lot of children make weird voices for their toys' voices, and so on. I just hate it.