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My daughter enjoyed watching the Olympics with us, but after a few days asked why grandma and grandpa weren’t on TV with the other "Catholics" (confused with athletes!) She also likes to sing the old rock tune "Chapel of Love" but sings "Snapple of Love" by mistake (maybe a good ad campaign?) If you get a chance, post your completed project for us.
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snipped article because you had to scroll left and right to read it — pain in the neck! why does that happen with some posts? Anyway, this was my daughter’s first big (more than 2 words) sentence, at age 2. Prior to this, she said many words, but would rarely put them together. One night she awakened at about 4:00 a.m. crying Mommy! Mommy! I brought her into my room to comfort her and while carrying her I noticed a deer in my neighbor’s driveway. The sensor light had been tripped on so the deer was well illuminated. "Look, Emma — it’s a deer," I said, hoping to distract her from whatever was upsetting her. Then she said: The deer looks just like a big puppy. Pronounced like: Da deew wooks jus wike a big puppy. (Think Elmer Fudd.) My husband bolted up out of bed — who said that??? You have to remember that she had never said anything much more complicated than "want juice" before this. Ileen
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In response to the request for examples of children’s speech development, here are a couple of my favorites: One afternoon when my son was about two and a half, he came to me and said, "Nap soons, Mommy." I was beside myself with joy, because he had never gone to sleep willingly in his life. Well, when I put him in his crib a short time later, he started screaming, "Soons! Nap soons!" I gave him a little more time and tried again, with the same results. I didn’t know why he kept telling me he wanted to take a nap soon when he obviously had no intention of taking a nap, but it dawned on me a few days and many "Soons!" later- he was used to being told that something would happen soon, and when you heard "soon" it meant "not for a good long time, if ever". For about six months, whenever things weren’t going his way, he’d yell, "Soons!" He’s since progressed to "No, vanks (sic)," and "I don’t fink (sic) so", but my husband and I (and everyone we know, it seems) still say "Soons" whenever we don’t want to do something. My other anecdote is a little more recent- I heard it just a few weeks ago, and the little prince is almost exactly three and a half now. We haven’t quite perfected potty usage yet, and Alexander came to me one day with wet pants and a grave expression and said, "Uh-oh. I spilled my penis." Good luck on your project! Pamela Gillaspie
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> Hello everyone, > let me introduce myself I am a 23 year old Early Childhood education
major. School is back in session and in my language development and childrens lit class my prof has asked us to find an interesting, captivating or suprising thing that a child who is learning to use language has said. Then I am to make this into a story. Anyway, so I asked around and most people could give me things like words that the child mispronounanced (sp?) and that was about it. I asked my parents about me and they too said that I [CLIP] I don’t know if this is what you’re looking for, but I have a few cute little stories: The following conversation took place one day when my son came home from pre-school: ANDREW: At school we have caterpillars, and they will turn into racoons, and then butterfies!" DADDY: What do cacoons look like? ANDREW: They have long, stripey tails… Another time I was riding in the car with my other son, late in the afternoon: DADDY: James, don’t look at the sun. JAMES: Well it’s looking at me! Hope this helps… — Ph.D. Candidate (Russian History) University of Illinois at Chicago
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Hello everyone, let me introduce myself I am a 23 year old Early Childhood education major. School is back in session and in my language development and childrens lit class my prof has asked us to find an interesting, captivating or suprising thing that a child who is learning to use language has said. Then I am to make this into a story. Anyway, so I asked around and most people could give me things like words that the child mispronounanced (sp?) and that was about it. I asked my parents about me and they too said that I had a few words that did not come out right but that was all. I am really at wits end and am running out of time. So thats why I have come to you. Does anyone out there have a cute, funny, interesting story about their child learning to talk? If so I hope you would share it with me. Now I am awear that this is a BB for parenting issues and not Homework Helpers and believe me all you would be doing is giving me an idea to work with and thats all. So if anyone is willing to help me out please email me. I thank everyone for their time and helpfulness Have a nice day Matt Indiana Univ of PA Early Childhood Education Major
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