Whiney Kids

whine, whined, whin•ing, whines.
v.intr.
1. To utter a plaintive, high-pitched, protracted sound, as in pain, fear, supplication, or complaint.
2. To complain or protest in a childish fashion.
3. To produce a sustained noise of relatively high pitch: jet engines whining


4. Noise that makes you want to throttle small creature emitting offending noise. (Scar's definition)

My precious, sweet, two year old, baby girl has just started this incessant whining business.
I’ve blamed her sudden horrible behavior on everything, first I said “Well, she’s whining because she misses her pacifier” then I said “Oh she’s just whining because the other kids at Daycare do it.” Now I think I know the real reason ….she’s a big~ol’~whiney~ass~tittie~baby. I thought she was going to drive me crazy this morning before I could drop her off at preschool. I almost got a speeding ticket on the way to school. I slid into the parking lot on two wheels then threw her out before the tires stopped rolling. I was yelling “Free at last, free at last!!” as I screeched out of the school drive way.
I told her this morning…”Stop it or Grammy is going to make national headlines!”
That shut her up for um about .5 seconds.
I don’t know what happened, she was such a good baby.

Short of choking her out nothing I've tried has worked.

I've tried ignoring her when she's whining(You try ignoring a 36 lb of flesh attached to your leg sounding like a fire engine)
I've told her "Use your words" (Now she just whines the words ie Iiiiiiiiiiii wannnnnntttttt milllkkkkkkk)


How do/did yall deal with a whiney kid?

I pretend I'm deaf....

Oh yes tara...you have a little whiney-hiney too.
I can pretend to be deaf right up to the point she grabs my leg & starts climbing up my body like a spider monkey.

yup he does that too. I want to run away at least 25 times a day. He came out screaming and hasn't stopped yet. If he isn't screaming, he's whining- and that is worse. It just goes straight through my head and I can't stand it. Oh and he's teething too, makes for very joyous days. Nothing helps either, teething tablets seem to do nothing, neither does anything else, except maybe biting his sister.

It's bad when it is an almost 11 yo whining, drives me CRAZY!
I have tried ignoring it, I have tried walking away, and pretending I am deaf......nothing works short of leaving home.and Dh would hunt me down like a fugitive.

I feel your pain... my three year old whinnies and cries for now reason... like his straw will not work and he will cry like its the end of the earth.... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I want to cry and run all the time!

I just kept telling myself that "this too shall pass!" of course, here it is 9 years later and they are still whining!! LOL! Now at least I can send them away! ROFL!!!

Mine have their moments too. With Devon I always tell him that the other kids at big school won't want to be his friend if that's how he's going to talk to them and he smartens up. With Sam "You'd better pull out your smile or you won't be able to go to swimming lessons (or t-ball or whatever else he's looking forward to)" works well.

Mine isn't whining so much, but she is going through this phase where she yells "MOMMY!" about once or twice every 30 seconds. And when I say "what?" she doesn't say anything. And if I don't answer, she just keeps screaming.

I got paid a few months ago by Wondertime magazine for my comment about whining. We have a rule. If you whine, the answer is always NO. However, if you put the back of your hand to your forehead and do your best damsel in distress impersonation and say, "Alas! I fear I shall perish without it!" we might just say yes. Zaven and Caly STILL do this in the middle of Wal-mart, and Zoe is starting to learn it. It's MUCH better than whing and has the added benefit of causing other shoppers to be very confused. But sadly, Quinn still just screams at me.

eat_a_cookies wrote:Mine isn't whining so much, but she is going through this phase where she yells "MOMMY!" about once or twice every 30 seconds. And when I say "what?" she doesn't say anything. And if I don't answer, she just keeps screaming.

That phase is almost as bad as whining. I have this incredible ability to block out screaming so Dev and Sam learned that this one got them nothing in a big hurry. Whining is much harder for me to block out though.

I am a very mean mommy. If the whining goes on and on, or she is crying for no reason other than attention,
I make her go to her room or a corner. I call it the whining corner. She goes there first. THen if she starts again after she promises to stop whining she goes to her room to sit.
when she swears she will stop and comes back out, but starts whining again

I tell her I will give her something to whine about.

If it continues I swat her. then send her to her room again.


I am FED up with it.

that and when I ask a question and get the look, the 'why are you speaking a forgian lanuguage to me' look. I could GLADLY slap that look right off their faces. But I refrain. seriously. I do. I will ask again, tell them to answer me, and if they still look at me like I am crazy or ignore me I will start to count. They know if I hit 3 I will use the wooden spoon. NOT after I say three, but in conjunction with 3.

ohhhh the 'mom, Mom, MOM, MOOOOMMMMMM< thing is awful. All of mine do that.

usually when I am on the phone with one finger in one ear and my hand up saying one second.

Strangely enough, my 3 year old doesn't do much whining.. it's my 13 and 14 year olds that whine whine whine... They whine about anything and everything under the sun. It takes everything I have to not strangle the demon spawn sometimes. Since they are older, taking things away from them usually works. Thank God for summer vacation as they are gone most of the day hanging out with friends lol.

Karen, that is fabulous. I was just going to ask if Scar had tried laughing. My mom babysat for years and we had no whiners. Most of the time when a child would try doing something like that we would just laugh and say no and continue with what we were doing. In a way, it is a kinder form of ignoring and they can figure out you are not going to take them seriously so why even go there...

But one time when my mom was really fed up with a new kid and he was misbehaving, she told him, "Boy, if you don't sit yourself down I'm going to take that other boy over there and whip your butt with him!" Of course everyone just howled laughing, kids, grownups and all. He instantly sat down. Humor worked for us most of the time but I also understand that sometimes you just have to get serious. Good luck, Scar.

Karen, that picture is beautiful. Absolutly adorable.

Pearly, I will try the lauging thing. But I am fairly certain it wont work.

I cant let them whine and scream most of the day. BR is asleep. Then by the time he wakes up and leaves I am SOOOO fed up that I am close to snapping.

So at that point the ignoring thing doesnt work.

I told them this morning that if they whined one more damn time I would lick their eyeballs! I got the " omg she has lost her mind look" but they did stop whining.

My friend had the same problem with her twins. It got so bad (not just with the whining, but the twins love/hate relationship) she took the whole family to a counsellor.

Similar to everyone else, the counsellor set up rules, and gave the parents responses to use in certain situations. For whining it was simply 'I will NOT respond to you when you whine.'

She said it every little peep whine out of their mouths.

Took about 10 days, but eventually they stopped.

Like any kids, the whine still makes some appearances, but she still uses the phrase and it still works

Best of luck. lol

My son does not whine as much as he begs. He actually gets on his knees, his hands folded over in a little prayer action and begs, "please please momma?"

I give him the answer to what ever he is begging for and if he continues, he is told to get up. My hubby hates seeing him do this and we have no clue where he picked up on this. I watch all his shows and movies with him, and I do not see them do this.

thebigscott wrote:I got paid a few months ago by Wondertime magazine for my comment about whining. We have a rule. If you whine, the answer is always NO. However, if you put the back of your hand to your forehead and do your best damsel in distress impersonation and say, "Alas! I fear I shall perish without it!" we might just say yes. Zaven and Caly STILL do this in the middle of Wal-mart, and Zoe is starting to learn it. It's MUCH better than whing and has the added benefit of causing other shoppers to be very confused. But sadly, Quinn still just screams at me.

absolutely beautiful, such a gentile way to teach the children... no screaming, kicking, or mom's running away from home.

Love how you deal with it.... if only more could follow your lead, it would make my Walmart shopping trips a whole lot more pleasant -- as well as entertaining!