Anybody else's toddler gone from not saying very many words to speaking loads, almost overnight? Amazing aren't they?

[EightMonthsScared]

Not a boast (well okay, it is a bit, I suppose?), but I am curious to know if anybody else has had this?

My son is two and he's never really said any words apart from 'da-da' and 'duggee' 🙄Over the past two weeks, it's as though the 'speech' button has switched on in his brain and he's saying everything. All of the words, and even small two to three word sentences.

It's crazy - I expected him to develop incrementally but he seems to have just jumped from one state to another.

It might be completely the norm but I'm just amazed at the speed of development

Did your toddler do this? Aren't they amazing? 😍

Apparently my big brother did this 60 years ago. Pretty much not a word and then full sentences.

It's crazy isn't it?

My 15 month old says something new everyday and picks words up so quickly.

They're like little sponges, it's really cute.

(My 3 year old is non verbal so didn't realise how quickly neurotypical children spoke)

It’s amazing when they have these speech bursts and all of a sudden say these words for the first time. I’m sure it’s painfully slow to get to the first word and then before long they are saying dozens of new words every week.

Congrats to your boy!

The next jump is even more exciting, my dd went from simple two word phrases "more cheese" to long multi-clause sentences really suddenly "I don't have it because it's over there"

Very exciting!

My youngest did this. I was starting to worry that he still wasn't talking yet and he suddenly woke up one day and said about 5 words in a row! He hasn't stopped since! 😁

Yes mine were all like this, waiting until the health visitor was getting twitchy and then going from babbling to full sentences in the shortest space of time. They were all slow to walk too.

It is so exciting! I can't wait to find out what goes on in that mind of his.

I'd love to know, from an expert perspective, what it is that suddenly tips them into language properly. I wonder whether it's a brain thing, a confidence thing etc.

He's had a growth spurt recently too (after staying pretty much the same for six months) - I reckon it's all connected.

Yes this is so cool! I’m always surprised when I ask a question and get a reply! I suppose you spend so long talking at them and commentating on what you’re doing that it’s a bit of shock when it becomes a two way thing!

@Aozora13 Mine was slow to walk as well. I wonder if there's a correlation?

My neighbour had her baby three months after me, and yet I'd see them (about 12 months later) walking past, whilst mine was still bum shuffling.

I suppose you spend so long talking at them and commentating on what you’re doing that it’s a bit of shock when it becomes a two way thing!

It is @Ithinkitstimeforbed !@Ithinkitstimeforbed!

It is like my cat has suddenly started talking to me. I feel like i'm witnessing witchcraft.

A BiL of mine waited until he was 3 - from practically nothing to whole sentences. Mil told me she’d been getting very worried.
He later won a scholarship to Cambridge.

@EightMonthsScared 🤣 yes I know exactly what you mean! It’s really quite handy though, now I can ask him where he put his stuff and he can tell me! He can tell me what he wants for dinner (it’s always “I want pizza please”) but it means I have to watch what I say so much now, I’m amazed how many the things I must say quite often he repeats, I’m worried he’ll let my secrets out next 😝

very interested in the next stage of development though!

One of my dc went from barely anything at 3 to full sentences seemingly overnight! His use of tended and quite complex words still blows my mind a year later - it’s like he was taking it all in and then just decided one day to participate.

I read somewhere that Einstein was a late talker - age 5-ish - and then came out with proper long, complicated sentences.
Fascinating how children develop so differently and at such different rates.

It's really amazing isn't it, their knowledge and memory and linking of ideas and thoughts. How they know how to structure a sentence correctly, where to put the that's, there's, where's etc.

My "baby" is just over 2.5 and she is very good at talking (I think) but she gets a lot from hearing her older siblings it just amazes me how her wee brain works! She tells tales on me to my mum if I've been giving out to the big ones to hurry up and get dressed in the morning 🤣

Our eldest did this - said literally nothing and then suddenly you could hold a conversation but he was about 2.5 . He was diagnosed as moderately deaf at 6 and had learnt how to lip read very effectively as well .

@EightMonthsScared mine come from a long line of late bloomers - apparently I was the same and my Nan and I enjoyed comparing notes about being the only one in baby group whose DC was just laying there while all the others skipped about reciting poetry! We all got there in the end though - everyone learns differently. My youngest is 2.5 and it feels like her speech has an upgrade every couple of months. Love toddler chat even if at least 75% is varying degrees of NO!

My son was mute until he was three and only said phrases at four. He was five before he was doing proper sentences j wasn’t sure he’d be ok at mainstream, to be totally honest.

He doesn’t shut up now and it love it so much, he’s the only chatty teenager I know 🤣🤣🤣🤣

This is similar to my son, he’s a little younger so not fully but he’s turned 18 months and I was worried he was developing slower than his sister did…as he basically only could say “duggee” and “muma and dada” and then out of no where he’s started semi-coherent nattering about all sorts!? Today he’s been chatting about about his dreams? So weird