Jason,
My daughter is ten and this may sound crazy, but actually the best way to
get mine out of a whine is to make her laugh or make a joke.  At seven I
don't think I heard anything but for a year.  I also think she was terribly
frustrated.  Possibly teaching her an alternative just to break the
behavior up.  Simple signs ect.  good luck Shawn

>My daughter Lauren, who will be 3 in June and has mild left CP with
>language/communication delay, is what I would call very fussy or at least when
>she is fussy it is extremely annoying to my wife and I. I don't know how to
>describe it but she speaks in the language of fuss.  It is basically a wining
>that she does. When we get dressed in the morning she wines and squirms, she
>wines until food is right in front of her face, she wines when we go out
>to eat,
>if she does seem to get something she want right then and now she wines.  Its
>the sound that bugs me and and since she is not communicatin well she uses
>this
>wine as for of communication.  What she can communicate is I want some,
>up, yumm
>yumm and we respond accordingly but the fussy/wine is not getting better.  I
>have recently resulted in YELLING NO or STOP and then following that with an
>explanation of how she shouldn't wine and that it really bothers us and
>that she
>should tell us what she wants (even though she may not be able:-) If that
>doesnt
>work I will tap her under her chin (not hard but enough to get her
>attention). I
>honestly do try to explain that yelling is not right and even apologize for
>yelling my self but Im not getting real good responses either way (better with
>the more agressive approach) but I obviously fear the reprocussions of
>that....Any similar experiences or advice. We feel that we have tried to
>anticipate her needs but I just feel that it is behavior that she is
>adopting..HELP please
>
>Jason Kruse