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Babyish behavior at home with my HG DS9 drives me crazy. Does anybody know if this can be a result of being underchallenged at school? Is there anything written about this?

Babyish behavior - whining? tantrums? More detail on the behavior and what you've tried to do do address it would be helpful.

babish voice, cooing, crawling on the floor.

My way of helping improve the situation is to talk to him out of the moment. He needs to be comfortable with who he is and think about the impression he is giving others. I have approached this from many angles. I have not really done agreat job of ignoring the behavior which has probally encouraged it some.

Onthegomom,

Does he think he is funny? My DS8 engages in all kinds of annoying and at times babyish behaviors and seems to think it is entertaining. He does this at school also and sometimes the kids think he is funny and sometimes they think he is strange and make fun of him. It seems to be what he does when he is bored and not sure what to do with himself. He has poor executive functioning and can't always figure out how to entertain himself constructively so we work on this.

I don't think he is trying to be funny. I think he feels little but I don't really get it.

Any thoughts on why / when it started?

My DD6 really enjoys playing the baby sometimes. She'll talk in a baby voice and do the crawling thing etc. I have no idea what purpose it serves, but I've come to believe that many of the strange things she does are all part of her coping mechanism. So when she wants me to attempt to cradle her in my arms I go for it.

Wait till you see my post on potty-training...then we can talk babyish!

Mine does a lot, but he just turned 5 in November. The whiny voice, tantrums, crawling/rolling on the floor... Yep.

This has been going on since he was at least 5 and has increased. He is now 9 1/2. I think he has some growing up issues. He doesn't want to give up too short shirts and pants. He has little sister jealousy issues. Maybe he wants to be cute. I've had it. It feels like encouragement to ignore my kid. I have a hard time ignoring bad habits, so the attention gratification to it has not helped. He usally does not show this with his friends. He talks/plays babyish with his sister and then she joins in.Last year when he was very frustrated with school he showed babyishness at school but not this year.

Does he do it around his dad? How does his dad react to it?