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Whining is not only annoying, but it's making you dumber. Credit: Getty Images
"Mommy, pleeeeese get me some more juice. I'm soooo thirsty."
"I'm borrrrred. Summer is sooo boring. There's nothing to dooooo."
No wonder you can't seem to get any work done when the kids are home and the whines are flowing. "Today" reports a new study shows hearing your kids whine makes it difficult to perform easy tasks.
According to the news show, researchers asked men and women to do simple math while they listed to a baby cry, regular speech, whining, silence, a high-pitched table saw and baby talk. The sound that lead to the most mistakes and worst productivity? Yep, whining.
"You're basically doing less work and doing it worse when you're listening to the whines," study co-author Rosemarie Sokol Chang tells "Today." "It doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman, everybody's equally distracted."
Now, the study we really need: How to get your kids to stop whining in the first place.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
6-22-2011 @ 9:09AM
Angiebaby said...I can't stand a whining child. If I were captured by enemy forces and they wanted information, they could pull out my fingernails, but I'd never talk. They could let june bugs gnaw on my eardrums, but I'd never talk. They could lock me up in a room with a whining kid for 24 hours, but then they couldn't shut me up.
Keep in mind, however, I don't blame the kids. Whining is adult abuse perpetuated by weak parents. (Adult abuse? When parents suffer at the hands of the kids.)
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6-22-2011 @ 10:15AM
Parmentier said...We need a study on how to stop your kids from whining in the first place? Only a person with no children would say that. It isn't hard. In fact it is so easy. A) Tell the child you cannot understand what they want when they whine. B) Reflect back to them what they have just said in the same whiny voice. C) Now show them how you expect them to ask. Repeat their request in the tone of voice you expect. D) Now have them repeat, and when they do, give them what they want if the request was reasonable. Start early age 2 is plenty soon enough. Works wonders.
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6-23-2011 @ 12:06AM
Renee said...Breaking a whining habit is difficult. Best to avoid the habit taking root. Whenever my daughter would start whining, I would ask her if she said something? If she whined again, I told her that she would have to use her words without whining for me to hear her. And if she kept whining, I would ignore her (as difficult as that was). Results were that she quit whining.
6-22-2011 @ 10:53AM
Rosie said...Whining makes us dumber and less productive? But people, it is your job to take care of your children - what part of that are you not understanding. A child whines because nothing else has worked for them. Whining is indicating they are thirsty? Geez, people, the child needs a drink!!!!! They are bored? While you sit in front of the computer all day and have not provided the child with meaningful activites or taught them any? This is whining??? What on earth is wrong with you, Parent Dish? Ignoring a child's needs and communications makes them whine! Sounds like we have dumb parents to begin with!
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6-22-2011 @ 11:27AM
colleen said...I would have to say that yes, whining is communication but, there are better ways for the child to communicate their needs.
I teach preschool so I have many opportunities to help with proper communication. There is " I am thirsty" and there is, even on the first request, "I'mmmm thirrrrrrrrrsty!". I often just look at the child a moment and say "is there a better way to ask that"? They get it. When they just make those whiney animal sounds I smile and say "that's not a word". No need to get mad--they just need to figure it out and parents need to realize what is happening and stop it. Keep in mind--some kids just naturally sound like Eeyore.
6-22-2011 @ 12:37PM
Dede Eagleburger said...whining makes us dumber? it didn't say anything about that...
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6-24-2011 @ 2:44AM
Alicia said...Dumber? Maybe not. More homicidal? Oh definitely. There i nothing in this world more annoying than a toddler whining or an infant crying. My dog knows better than to bark when we take him for a walk, your child should know better than to whine.
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