14 month old talking in sentences?

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Does anyone have or know of a just turned 14 month old who speaks in sentences?

A woman on a WhatsApp group I'm in is often mentioning how her DC talk in sentences from 13/14 months old (and not just simple things but telling someone about their day was one example she gave). I don't know why she would lie about this in a random WhatsApp group but it just seems so far fetched and of course there's never any videos to back it up! So, to the wisdom of Mumsnet...is it possible that a 14 month old could do this?!

Nah.

They possibly said ‘ball’ and their darling mummy has interpreted this as ‘my genius told me he loved playing football today’.

They say some do. I've never met one.

I reckon she’s exaggerating. One of mine spoke early but I think full sentences at 14 months would be really rare. She claims more than one of her DC did this??

It is possible DC1 said his first word at 4 months and could speak in full but short sentences at 14 months old. He was later diagnosed with autism and had ecohlalia. DC2 and DC3 spoke at the same time as most other kids and both are nuerotypical.

whats a sentence?

possibly, if you accept that two or three words together are as sentence, and you have your pfb specs on?

Yes, my first child did. Short sentences like “mummy I need food please” and “where is daddy, is he at work?” (those are specific examples as I was watching some videos of him as a baby the other week when I was moving some bits around).

He would also tell you that he had been to a farm and that he’d seen a cow for example.

By the time he was 2, he was speaking fluently, people used to think I was nuts and lying about his age.

It didn’t mean anything though. He’s always been extremely good at communication and still is at 21, it’s a huge part of his job. But he wasn’t gifted or anything.

Its unlikely. My first was (& still is) a talker, very ahead for her age but even her "sentences" at that age were "mummy i go outside" type. When she was just over 2 yrs she did shock her creche manager by explaining that her new shoes used to be her cousins in Australias but they got too small so her cousin gave them to the postnan to bring them to her.

My eldest could do really simple sentences at 15mo eg "mummy eat cake". People commented at toddler group on how unusual her speech was. By primary the other kids had caught up. She's now a pretty standard 15yo - mensa is not beckoning!

I'm laughing here because I was thinking my dc was 14 months. His birthday was November..... worked it out, oh 15 months. But he's been talking in sentences since Xmas so that still counts. Yeah. Except he turned 2 in November, not 1. 😂😂😂 what an eejit.

Yes, both of them speaking in sentences before 14 months! And not the kind of things you'd typically expect a 14 month old to say - "I love you daddy" and having a conversation about what they've done that day. Not just with her either, with the health visitor!

My second could do 2-3 word sentences at about that age. Things like "mummy go work"

One of my DC did (not NT). The others (NT) didn't.

I'm amazed by all these babies talking in sentences but fair enough, I'll eat my hat!

Mine did but it has since turned out she’s autistic. My NT children didn’t.

One of my children talked in sentences not much older than that, about 16/17 months. Very clear speech too. Years later we found out she has autism so was probably down to that.

If she means short two-three word phrases then DS1 was speaking in sentences by then. DS2 wasn't yet.

Mine spoke very early and was probably putting two or three words together by that age ('Where car go?' etc.), but I wouldn't have called them sentences. He was more like 18 months before he used proper sentences.

Some do, some don’t!

With my second, my health visitor had to talk me down as I was convinced there was a problem with her speech. She was fine, but I was just comparing her to ds!

My 3rd is in the middle of them with speech, she’s 2.7 years. But she was walking unaided at 8 months. All it’s shown me is how wildly differ ely children develop, even siblings who have been raised in the exact same way!

DS is scarily bright at Oxbridge, top of his year. I'm not sure about 15 months but before 20 months he said " is that Sarah?" (Of lady in a book who TBF did look a bit like her). " these are marmite grapes" ( to describe olives). " Gordon is the naughty engine", also " I pooed in Thomas" (when toilet traing). He never messed up his pronouns or referred to himself in the third person either. So I would say possible, my friends daughter spoke at 7 months and was toilet trained and asking for the potty before 18m.

I'm glad I asked as it's been bugging me an unreasonable amount! I still don't get why she won't share a video of it as such a tiny one speaking a sentence must be adorable but nevermind.

My eldest 100% did. My youngest didn't speak at all till over the age of 2. Same parents didn't do anything different! Would never know now though both never shut up!

DS is 13 months and will say a word followed by a babble and then another word, in a kind of up & down tone/pitch of voice that sort of mirrors a sentence. Whilst he might know a couple of solid words, the context certainly isn’t complex; it will be about what’s right infront of him. Not about earlier in the day etc! That’s mad. I doubt very much a 14 month old talks in full coherent sentences about past events! x

None of my three have ever referred to themselves in the third person either.

You always read that they are “supposed” to do that at X age.

When DS was 1 I wrote down his words, it's a list of 20. So I can believe he put 2 together soon after.

I went to many baby/toddler groups. I've worked in nurseries. My neighbour has childminded several children that age. I've never met a child that age who could speak in proper sentences. The odd one could put a couple of words together but even that was very rare. Most that I've come across are barely saying anything until after 18 months and no real sentences until after 2.

In my experience, the ones who most loudly claim their children are doing something out of the ordinary are usually lying or are interpreting things differently to how outside observers would.