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Subject: BS: Toddler language... From: GUEST,Petr Date: 10 Nov 06 - 06:41 PM Its amazing to watch a child learn language. my 22 she likes to take the phone and walk around like an adult pretending to talk. She found our old rotary phone the other day an called it an 'elephone' (probably thinking about her animal toys) the best one though was a week ago when we tried to feed her some stew. (shes in the refusing to eat stage) I had her on my lap with her baby doll beside me, trying to spoon feed her. SHe pushed my hand away and the stew fell on the babydolls backside..without missing a beat she said .. uh oh,..poop. anyother fun things your kids said? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: Barry Finn Date: 10 Nov 06 - 06:46 PM My 18 year old daughter sometimes won't speak to me for days & I ain't bragging either Barry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: katlaughing Date: 10 Nov 06 - 06:53 PM She sounds like a fun and bright little person, Petr! Pretty funny what pops out of their mouths, isn't it? (BTW, would you like a joe clone to change that to "22 MONTH old?" I'd be happy to do, please let me know.) My grandson will be three on Tuesday next. His vocabulary is astounding and he repeats everything he hears; all of his adults are having to self-censor much more these days. The other day he and I were watching an old Western. Two fellahs got into a fist fight. As casual as could be, he told me one was "kicking the other guy's ass." I've had a talk with his uncle since then as he gets quite vocal when playing video games.:-) He now knows how to pronounce "watch this" properly, but he gets lazy and still says, "sawch this." If he slows down and remembers to make the W sound, it is perfect. His favourite new word, this week, is "lelavayter" for "elevator." It is a joy to be with him each day and see the rapid changes as he learns more and more. I amazed at how they pick up the nuances and grammar of the language, just naturally, through repetition, etc. All the best, kat |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: Lox Date: 10 Nov 06 - 06:53 PM lol >;) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: GUEST,cigilteach Date: 10 Nov 06 - 06:58 PM My two year old watched a teen throw a bucket of water over another's head and exclaimed "OOOH he sure got brainwashed!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: Barry Finn Date: 10 Nov 06 - 07:00 PM Oh, 22 months? My 18 year old daughter is so cute when she still doesn't talk to me. HaHaHa. Barry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: katlaughing Date: 10 Nov 06 - 07:35 PM I am only surmising, Barry.**bg** "brainwashed" that's good! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: GUEST,petr Date: 10 Nov 06 - 07:45 PM ha ha I just noticed that..yes, of course 22 MONTHS old..thanks kat (please change) petr. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: Kaleea Date: 10 Nov 06 - 07:55 PM Katlaughing, I care for my 24 month old great niece who is also learning to talk, which can be roaring fun. Sometimes the joke is most assuredly on Auntie & Mommy! A few months ago she began to repeat some words we were saying, so I mentioned to her Mommy that we should seriously watch our "colourful metaphors." Shortly after that, when Mommy said "sh**" (not loudly) in the middle of an children's carnival, our little one enunciated it correctly and vociferously. Whoopsie! Right now, she has a favorite song which is a mixed up version of Kumbaya & Itsy Bitsy Spider-melodywise & lyric wise. It's pretty funny when she sings in front of people & they can't quite figure out what she is singing, but they say it sounds familiar--why, of course she is singing Itsy Bitsy Kumbaya Spider! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: GUEST,petr Date: 10 Nov 06 - 07:58 PM yes, shes a bright, and happy child. (Im sure all parents would say the same) its funny she has words she likes to say and correcting her doesnt work (pocket is pahtit - she likes to stuff my shirt pocket with crayons etc., shoes are shoesons as in put your shoeson.) in fact she points at moms pregnant belly, and says pahtit other times she says bella. Though I dont think she quite understands there is a baby in there. when I lift her out of her car seat and groan a bit she says 'heavy' (must have been something jenny said). or she reaches in my shirt as I carry her and says 'tickle tickle' yesterday she farted - pretty loud too- and said ooh stinky.. 2months ago I made a list of her words - that would be impossible now anyway just wanted to share the joy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: GUEST,petr Date: 10 Nov 06 - 08:02 PM yes, we have to watch the cuss words now. when my wife was ordering some dvds to be done for work and they they werent done on time as promised, while standing at the counter with little Anna, she said f**k! Which Anna immediately picked up. Jenny said shhh only mommy can say that. Anna said shhh.. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: frogprince Date: 10 Nov 06 - 09:10 PM My nephew (now an army sargeant major) loved his little picture book of fire trucks. I'm not sure just how long my sister had to live with him popping up to every house guest with "Wanna see my f**k picchers?" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 10 Nov 06 - 09:17 PM Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings.... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: GUEST,memyself Date: 10 Nov 06 - 09:18 PM Please don't make the month/year correction; it's really much more interesting and unusual as 22 years ... Besides, if the correction is made, Barry's posts won't make any sense. Neither will this one, for that matter! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: Stilly River Sage Date: 10 Nov 06 - 10:43 PM We were waiting for my daughter to say her first words--we knew she understood a lot because she could point at all sorts of things when you asked her about her picture books. What was her first word? Was it "DaDa" or "MaMa"? No. It was "Otto." The name of one of our cats. :-/ Now the kid can put hundreds of minutes a month on the evening and weekend portions of her cell phone free time. . . there doesn't seem to be an "off" switch (should we happen to misguidedly wish for one.) SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: Mo the caller Date: 11 Nov 06 - 03:45 AM The putting words together to make sentences stage was amusing for us. Waking up with my husband beside me to hear son repeating "Daddy gon a WaK." I know I'd told him that Daddy had gone to work when he was saying Daddy, in the daytime, but not at 6.30am. And after his second Christmas (and Grandma's fun but not very durable stocking fillers) he learnt another sentence "Daddy bend it in-a-minit." (I can't reproduce the rhythm of it, it was the way the sentences were pronounced as a unit, rather than individual words that made them amusing) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 11 Nov 06 - 03:45 AM I was more amused by the thought that a 22year old was about to become a big sister - I was thinking 'well good for you, you old rascal!!' LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: Morticia Date: 11 Nov 06 - 07:33 AM I have found some of the children's childhood words have stayed in use even though Chris is now 21 and Pixie is almost 25. For example, Chris always called a duvet a 'yup' ( because it covers you up...yup, geddit?) and I still call them that. He doesn't. of course, but I do :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: MBSLynne Date: 11 Nov 06 - 09:07 AM Yep...we have family words which originated when the kids were small. We don't use a scourere to wash our pots but a scavenger (That was Richard), and to clean the last of the cake mix from the bowl we use a splatter instead of a spatula. (That was Shady). Richard always called cement mixers "Mencers" and Thomas The Tank Engine, whom he loved, was Dandy, and then as he got more articulate became Thostangen. Shady called the television the "Tesionwision" which we still use sometimes, and I like the fairly ordinary ones like Hostipal and bistick. In fact I realised we are still using a word in our family which originated from my now 49 year old sister. My Dad had his socked feet on the fireguard and there was a hole in one sock. For some unknown reason my little sister (about 2) stuck her finger in it and said "Lally". We use the word now to describe a hole in something. Several weeks later, same scenario but Dad's sock had been darned. She exclaimed with amazement "Lallygone!" and for years a mended hole in a garment was a lallygone. I've just realised with a certain amount of sadness, that we have lost the last of my 11 year old daughter's babyisms. She always used to say "Please may will you.." and out of habit continued to use the same phrase right up until about a year ago. I never pointed it out because I loved to hear it, but I noticed a couple of months ago that it has now gone. *Sigh. Love Lynne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: Mrs.Duck Date: 11 Nov 06 - 09:36 AM My 22 year old (yes that is correct) always used to say 'eyes'when she wanted to go to bed (she was a strange child even then) presumable because we used to say 'close eyes and go to sleep'. These days she texts me to say goodnight aah! The most comical was Molly who until going to school could not pronounce the sound 'k'. She was and still is cat mad so her favourite pair of pjs were the ones with the titties on and a certain female singer from Herga was known as 'that titty lady with the glasses'! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: Greg F. Date: 11 Nov 06 - 11:06 AM Whoops- sorry! Thought this thread was a critique of Geo. W. Bush's speech. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: Stilly River Sage Date: 11 Nov 06 - 02:16 PM On Friday evenings we always watched some of the PBS programs, and when the music for Washington Week in Review started, my daughter would announce that "Week Week" was on. That one has stuck. We never did any baby talk with our two, so they were pretty clear from very early on. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: Becca72 Date: 11 Nov 06 - 03:03 PM My neice Meghan came running into the room one day (about age 2) holding her head and crying. She told us her big brother, Thomas (about 4) had hit her "in the headboard". I never quite knew if she meant 'forehead' or if he'd slammed her face off the head of the bed, as either was certainly possible. That was right around the time I went through a goth phase and was very much into the music of Alice Cooper....well Meghan asked me one day if I would play more "A-yis Booper" for her. We still call him that to this day, and she's 20 now. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: MBSLynne Date: 11 Nov 06 - 03:33 PM We never did baby talk either and I'm sure not many folkies do. All children have words and letters they have difficulty pronouncing when they are just learning to talk. Lynne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: Ferrara Date: 11 Nov 06 - 10:09 PM Yah. We never used baby talk either. Kids just listen and repeat what they think they heard, and lots of times it's charmingly different from what was said. One of my favorites was the universal "pasketti" (we eat a fair amount of Italian food.) Another that Bill and I still use was "brektis" for the first meal of the day. But the expression that has been most useful came from Darriel's pre-speech days. At about 6 months he started reaching for things, saying "aaaaaaa! aaaaaaa!" This was at the stage of grabbing for absolutely everything he saw. If it looked edible, so much the better. Bill and I still occasionally say "aaaaaa!" when we reach for something that's hard to reach or want the other to hand us something. Darriel's other favorite time to say "aaaaaa" was in any spot that echoed. I've seen two or three toddlers doing this at once. Oh. When Darriel was about three, he and Bill were having a discussion about life, the universe and everything. Bill said, "I didn't think we'd be having this discussion until he was at least 12 years old." I think that was the occasion when Darriel answered, grinning, "Yes. I have a lot of words in my mouth." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: Dave'sWife Date: 11 Nov 06 - 10:41 PM well, consider yourselves soooo lucky that they talk. Five years ago, a neighbor of mine who I was very close to was carried away by the EMT's in an ambulance at 2 AM one night. She was in very fragile health having gotten HIV in a blood transfusion. Her 10 year old son who was born HIV positive but who sero-converted at age 18 months (meaning he is free of HIV) had severe cerebal palsy. He was deaf and wheelchair bound, about the size of a 4 year old. We were told he was about the same age mentally, but I think he was as sharp as a tack. Now, we adored him and he was a sweet child but when the fireman handed him to me and said "You can take him for a few weeks, right Ma'am? otherwise we have to call social services." I gulped and said "umm. sure." We had a grand time for several weeks not knowing Sign language but making it up as we went along. It was a few weeks after 9/11 and he kept re-enacting the twin towers crash with his toys and I was at a loss to try and help him work through it. Long story short, when Mom came back, she was mystified by all the new signs he was making. My husband and I were just winging it making up signs but Ken assumed they were real signs other people knew and just added them to his vocabulary! The one I loved the most was the way he would use his hands to pantomime pointed dog ears to mean "Puppers" our German Shepherd and to use his arm to make like a wagging tail to tell us he wanted us to let him play with the dog! He also used to make the sign for needing a bath when he wanted to be cuddled because that was when he could be sure we'd put our arms around him and hold him. He had a little rat tail pony tail and he used to grab it and wag it to tell my husand he wanted me because I have long hair. He could read lips pretty well and we all had great fun. We were kinda sad to let him go bacxk to his mom when she was well. They have since moved a few hours away and we miss them terribly. It was great having him with us |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: Stilly River Sage Date: 11 Nov 06 - 11:50 PM Great story! Mine had some great guesses at words, and when I was thinking I wrote them down. One of my favorites was when my daughter, at about 3 1/2, colored an elaborate sunset (for a kid her age with a box of crayons--lots of red and orange circling over the same area, with a yellow spot in the middle). She couldn't remember the word for "sunset" when she told me it was called "day glaze." Pretty resourceful! SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: Snuffy Date: 12 Nov 06 - 10:28 AM We still refer to a "wobble hat" and occasionally to "sting leaves" (nettles) which my daughter made up at age 3. And once when someone called her "young lady" she managed to get all her indignation and a correction into just 3 words - instead of saying "I'm not a lady; I'm a girl. Look at my Mummy that's what a lady looks like", she just said "Girl! Mummy lady" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: Mo the caller Date: 12 Nov 06 - 03:38 PM You can see their minds working away. Cabbages is the plural of cabbage So the singular of radishes must be raddi "Can I have a raddi" from Jeff at around 2. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: MBSLynne Date: 12 Nov 06 - 03:45 PM And my Mum and Dad still talk about me at the age of 2 or so, dropping the yolk of a hard-boiled egg out of my high chair saying "Don't like the pip!" Love Lynne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: Snuffy Date: 12 Nov 06 - 06:08 PM My daughter said her peach had a bone in the middle of it |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: Joe_F Date: 12 Nov 06 - 09:03 PM Many persons of that age, I believe, on being told to behave, have responded indignantly "I'm *being* have". |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: MBSLynne Date: 13 Nov 06 - 03:05 AM Oh yes! I remember that one. A friend's daughter used to ask for someone to "Undone do it" when she wanted letting out of her pushchair or for help in getting her coat off Love Lynne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: Paul Burke Date: 13 Nov 06 - 03:55 AM One night when the Dotty Daughter Doodle was about 3, she absolutely refused to go to bed. No tantrums, no digging in of heels, just a polite but blank "Oh, no.". Why, we asked.. whispering, she replied "Too DANGEROUS!" Whereas the Boy, at 18 months old, had a compound word used when he wanted to get out of his high chair. "Down" and "out" rolled together became "Doubt", which was very appropriate since he's called Thomas. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: Scoville Date: 13 Nov 06 - 03:07 PM My mother thought she had a rough road ahead of her when my brother, at the age of two, got frustrated with her about something and declared, "You're not the boss of me!" (He turned out to be a big teddy-bear after all. Thank goodness.) ******* Some friends of ours from church were teaching their little boy animals using a picture book that apparently included a picture of a Holstein cow. One day, when they took their son to a dog show, where he saw a harlequin Great Dane. He immediately pointed to it and said, "MOO!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: MBSLynne Date: 13 Nov 06 - 05:22 PM I remember my son, aged two, running out of the shopping centre in Northampton into the market square where a pigeon was walking about, squatting down in front of it and yelling "Chicken!" Love Lynne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: Snuffy Date: 13 Nov 06 - 07:18 PM Pigeons - that's nuthin'. We went to Twycross zoo one Christmas and my nephew saw the ostriches and said "Ooooh! Chickens!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toddler language... From: GUEST,petr Date: 14 Nov 06 - 12:21 PM Anna's first word was 'dog', with 'book' second and 'wawa' right up there. Wawa is our cat Reavy. in fact any cat is wawa. Even the tiger at the game farm. her first sentence happened when my wife carried her downstairs for breakfast and she looked at me still half asleep and said 'dada night night'. |
