Toddlers are Quackers

[BullChick]

It depends on the child and adults around them. Duckling apparently talks a lot. My family is impressed with her vocabulary. I figured that I knew too many unusually quiet toddlers.
Actually conversing is about eighteen months. Teaching sign language can actually speed up verbal skills.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

This looks like a great place to ask a baby question.

How old are them little fellers when they start talking?

They ought to come out talking. Make them so much
easier for me to take care of.


Spook....

at two they should be able to use 2-3 word sentences
and i agree what other species has such dependent children

 

[Spookwriter]

Spook's baby not two yet. In August, I think maybe.

Baby understands me mostly. But she doesn't talk.
Starting to think she just doesn't like me.


Spook

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Spook's baby not two yet. In August, I think maybe.

Baby understands me mostly. But she doesn't talk.
Starting to think she just doesn't like me.


Spook

lol, also using proper english and never using baby talk helps to speed it up

 

[BullChick]

In this case it was purple instead of pink.

 

[BullChick]

Oh my! Twenty minutes later, she cried because she wanted the first cup l offered.
I will never know what happens in the short spurts we are apart. She was only gone 18 hours. Between Saturday and Sunday was the same. Perhaps she isn't sleeping at night.

 

[Bantambird]

First (I don't know how it gets missed, but sometimes it does) is she tongue tied?
Second, I had trouble with p's and t's. My mother made me watch her tongue. I learned quickly so I didn't have to see her tongue anymore.
I did have speech classes. But so did my siblings. We had Boston accents, and had moved to New Jersey. My one sister and I were born in MA, so had to take more classes.

Can you say, park the car in the Harvard yard?

Oh! And she sticks her tounge all the way out for L sounds, so I'm suspecting no tounge tied.

 

[BullChick]

I can.
Some people are offended when I have to ask, "Boston or NY?" I speak with both accents.
Can she curl her tongue backwards?

 

[Bantambird]

Never asked, but I was sure the doctors looked for that. I'll look again! When she's awake, that is...

 

[Bantambird]

There's a gal from Massachusetts where I work. She's the one that told me about Harvard yards. That is an interesting concept. Montana has an accent like Midwest with a smidge of Texas and Minnesota together. I'm not sure how else to explain. It's because the cattle drives moved cattle from here all the way to the south in the winter. We are still a fence out state to this very day! Not many cattle or sheep drives anymore tho. And the Norwegians settled from here to Minnesota in droves when they emigrated. My great grandma insisted we have fresh lesfa and lutefisk every Christmas. My grandpa makes krumkakes stuffed with rum flavored whipping cream. Yeah, lots of Norwegians in these parts.