Super Whiney 10 Month Old

We went through the same thing with my son, only he was about a year old when he started. And the whining can drive you crazy!! I felt like we tried everything too, we even thought that maybe it was a teething/discomfort issue. After we were confident that wasn't the problem, we just started telling him that we couldn't understand him when he whined, that he needed to use his big boy words. After we started consistently saying that, the phase was pretty short lived...he realized that when he whined we couldn't (or wouldn't) help him. Good luck!!

My son is the same way off and on. He is a whiner. After figuring out he doesn't have a true "need" I must attend to, I tell him I can't understand his whining and that he needs to use his words. It doesn't usually change anything, unfortunately. What I've done for my own sanity is played mind games with myself and convinced myself that the whiney sound is really a happy sound. Sounds strange, I know, but it really does take the edge off of the frustration. Good luck to you, J.!!!

I'm a mother of 3 wonderful boys ages 16,15 and 11 years old. When my boys were that age and started to whine I would put in a tape that would play children songs and sing along with the tape that way if I walked away from my son he would still hear my voice and be so occupied hearing the song and my voice he eventually would put his attention on the music and not my voice and stopped whining. Hope this works for you.

Try changing from a high chair to one of those chairs that attaches to your own chair. It is like a booster chair, but they have straps to secure the child. My daughter didn't like her high chair once she felt she was mobile. The other chairs let them feel like they are not so confined. My daughter really liked the other kind of chair, and we could take it with us to restaurants and to other people's houses.