14 month old talking in sentences?

[Foal]

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?!

Posted too soon.

However, to add to this, eldest was the latest of my walkers.

Also to add. Sharing videos...I get that. One she shouldn't have to prove her childs ability to anybody.
Two, I got so tired of people wanting to 'see' or whatever, I taught my daughter the phrase 'I'm not a performing monkey'
Three. It really doesn't matter when your child hits the milestones...or anybody elses.

DD1 could talk in short sentences aged 18 months. I can specifically remember her saying in the car on holiday in Malta “ Mattie look at daddy book” as she wanted to see the guide book!

Mine basically said No, Dummy, Kits (biscuits) and Worzel (our then cat) until she was nearly 18 months.

My son was definitely talking in full sentences when I went to Uni when he was 13 months old (the youngest age the crèche would accept). His first word at 9 months was the rather glorious ‘bollocks’ (he was out with his Dad & a guy next to them tripped over, with DS parroting the poor guy’s expletive). His Dad was an actor, he likewise, never shut up & was a very early speaker.

Son’s now 30 and, with the exception of a couple of ‘teenage grunting’ years he hasn’t really shut up.

DD was speaking in full sentences by 18 months (I think she had to, to get a word in edgewise with her brother). The only sentence her Dad could speak until 3 was, “I broke me leg!” (he’s never broken his leg).

My son didn’t take his first step until nearly a year. My daughter was whizzing around (her nickname was Hurtle Turtle) at 10 months.

Some milestones they’d hit at the same age, others at different ages, just the same as friends children born around the same time.

I was a single Mum with my son, we couldn’t afford a tv (as a broke student) so we’d be mooching out & about chatting about all sorts. By the time my DD arrived I was with now DH (in a proper job lol) but we’d still go out & about, chatting about this & that, exploring the world. Lots of reading books & library time from very little for both. Anything to grow their vocabulary & love of language.

Apropos of nothing, I’ve always allowed swearing (if it’s in the OED then - without being offensive- it’s good enough for me). Learning how, when and where the right language should be used is more important than locking ‘naughty’ words away. A plosive ‘bollocks’ when tripping over doesn’t mean my son littered his crèche, nursery & school experience with random bollockses.

I cannot attest that he didn’t bollocks his way around Uni, but since he came out with a first on a very competitive degree, I doubt he did!

Yeah, 14/15 months multiword phrases here (which if you were feeling proud you might call sentences). It’s all very variable between kids and my DC was unusually verbal at that age. Nothing to stress about either way.

My eldest DD did. Being my eldest and before the Internet, I didn't realise how odd it was.
When she was 15 months, the Health Visitor came round.
"Is that your pen? It's blue isn't it? Not red".
She also read early but did not go on to be a genius!

I could have a reasonable conversation with one of my children (middle one) when they turned 1. My other children were very slow (about 3) before they were at the same stage. However these two were far quicker to walk, climb and develop fine motor skills.

DC2 could talk in simple sentences at that age. I remember his first proper word was car at 8 months, manage to capture it on my phone.

His first proper sentence was "mummy, have toast please?". Now he is a teenager all he ever does is moan about how hungry he is so things don't change

My dd was speaking in very short 3-word sentences at 14 months. My mum said that My dsis was the same. I was apparently slower but it doesn't seem to have held me back!

My DS1 was an early talker. Babbled a lot as a baby, took to baby signing really well from about ten months, 2-3 word sentences from around 15 months and proper conversations by 2. He was tiny- was 19 months old before he reached 9kg- so it would really surprise people to see this little baby talking away.

He did have his own words for some things (helicopters were 'uptopters' for example) and a lot of spoonerisms too (always making par carks with his cars). Was generally always chatting- barely ate and I said it was because it got in the way of talking (and running around).

He also has adhd so maybe that's all related. He is also pretty bright (top set for maths and science and already getting 7/8 grades in tests in Y9) but not incredibly so.

DS2 didn't really say much until after 2 but then he couldn't really get a word in!

Well it depends what your definition of a sentence is. My DC was about that age when they came out with the following gem. "Cbeebies,Bob, Tweenies, Tubbies!" My first thought was - I have a genius; closely followed by shit, I need to cut down on kids tv!

My children were very articulate growing up, speaking in full sentences, but that was around 2 years old.

My second and third did- both stopped making sounds for about about 2-3 weeks or so, then suddenly instead of the single words they'd been saying, bam, sentences- one is diagnosed autistic, the other one's on the pathway, they are both ahead academically for their ages currently. They were both speaking clearly and having proper conversations by the age of 2. My eldest was speaking in less clear 3 or 4 word sentences at around the same age, after again stopping speaking for a couple of weeks or so- and again, she is now on the pathway for autism assessment.

DD has not shut up since she was born ( she's 7) I don't remember her talking in sentences at 14 months, but she was definitely chattering away stringing a few words together, I've got a video of her picking up my bag announcing "I going work bye bye" (I went back to work when she was 14 months old) I guess it was repetition than actual considered conversation - but her conversation skills were evident by 18 months.

She was a reasonably early walker, she started crawling properly at exactly 10 months, two weeks later she was walking, crawling wasn't quick enough apparently.

@WestendVBroadway yes one of the early sentences we got was "put on telly"

@perenniallymessy mine was a tiny little thing complete with no hair so it used to freak people out so much when she started yakking away.

My niece was speaking in full sentences at age 14 months. Very early speaker and very gifted throughout her childhood. Has now been diagnosed with autism.

I think a little girl whose parents we did nct with was talking in sentences then or not much later. I thought maybe her mum was exaggerating by mistake, as my DC who was the same age had lots of words and sometimes said then together randomly, but not sentences. However, when I saw her, when she was not that much older, she really was talking in full sentences! You could basically hold a conversation with her.

Her mother never boasted about it, just mentioned it as if it were perfectly normal that her child could tell her all these things.

My first child did. Shocked me in toddler groups as I just assumed it was normal development and it looked as though we were showing off. We weren't, it was just our normal.

He was using two syllable words by 9 months and sentences by 12-14 months. Not long complicated sentences but still a coherent conversation. He's autistic and very cleverly linguistic. It's one of his skills.

It's not normal as I discovered. My second child didn't speak until 2 years.

@Foal

Well My late Mother always said I could do that by 14-15 months old. Told me a story of at least one person stopping her in the street to ask how old I was when they heard me talking clearly and in sentences because they couldn't quite believe that a child of the age I appeared to be was could be talking so well.

Neither of my children really did. Son was a late talker. Daughter was definitely talking in sentences with the right intonations, rise and fall of voice if asking a question etc. at around that age - but only a few words would be clear. Maybe that is what this woman means?

Mine were both early talkers. I clearly remember DD singing songs with full words at 14 months and being able to speak in simple, yet grammatically correct sentences. DS didn't really speak much until 14 months but then spoke in sentences, not just single words. I was aware that most of his peers didn't do this.

DS could speak in short sentences about things around him at 16m. We have a couple of recordings of him at that age, one where he was watching athletics on tv , he said, ‘look, people running’ and ran off laughing. And ‘I want x/ y / z’ or ‘give me x/y/z mummy, pleeeaasseeee’. I thought his speech was really good. He’s fairly average now at 20!

Mine could speak really simple sentences then, such 'there's the dog' but not proper chitchat sentences. He could say words very young but couldn't be arsed to walk until he was a month shy of turning 2!

My autistic DS was speaking in sentences by 14 months. NT DS2 didn't talk until he was almost 3!

Dd2 did if you count putting 3 words together.
Ds had some phrases he'd

Yes a good friend of mines daughter was the same.