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.