looking for word: "Don't get too excited" - children/babies

[bryce1]

大家好，

I am trying to think of an expression in Chinese that I've heard my friends say/talk about. When talking to their baby/child, they would often say the Chinese equivalent of "Don't get too excited" (I don't believe we say anything like this in English), if the baby/child shows too much emotion..

Perhaps it is almost like 'calm down'? I am not sure what the exact meaning is, but it is a similar meaning to what I described.

I think the second character's pronunciation is "dian3/4". Does this sound like anything famiilar to anyone?

Thanks!/谢谢！

[ma3zi1]

should be: 冷靜一下

[jbradfor]

閉嘴?

[bryce1]

haha. Definitely not 闭嘴！ not 冷静一下 either, because nobody was mad.. can anyone think of any others?

Thanks for your replies!

[skylee]

靜點？別鬧鬧了？

[bryce1]

Ah, yes!! Thank you skylee. It was indeed 静点！ (and I now realize that there were two words and not one)

It also has the easy translation - "calm down".. I think it is probably better than "don't get too excited"! (although a friend of mine was explaining something similar years ago.. and he translated it to "don't get too excited". Maybe it was a different expression)

谢谢大家