To be surprised that a woman I met's daughter was talking at 7 months?

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I met a woman today who I'd met briefly when we were both last pregnant. She was saying that her daughter was speaking from 7 months and can now (not quite two) say the alphabet and count to ten in several languages.

I hadn't realised that children could talk as early as seven months (and I still can't say the alphabet in any language other than English).

The little boy taught himself to read, don't ask me how, he wasn't just reciting from memory, he would read texts off her phone aswell! He is now officially g&t in English and maths (can't do sports for toffee though)
She was a first time mother and read to him a lot I suppose. her second child showed no such aptitude despite the same parenting.

Early talkers- HOW cute

I would love to hear a 7 month old talk to me but I seem to have been cursed blessed with early walkers/late talkers (well DS is only 4 months but he seems determined to get mobile, commando crawling across the room etc - but not much babbling heard yet)

my dd could hold a proper conversation at around 15 months. ds1 was born on her 2nd birthday, and I can remember discussions when I got pregnant about her baby sibling on the way and enjoying the fact she could converse properly about it all.

Though by the time she was 3 a nursery teacher raised concerns about her speech. I think she spent too much time talking and not enough listening! She had an excellent vocabulary but lacked clarity.

Still does really, she is now 13 - average (top sets in some subjects) at school but commented that dinner was 'meatball marijuana' last week.

I think a lot of it was pfb parenting with dd too. No tv, playing with her a lot of the day, talking to her constantly, plenty of playgroups, etc.

ds1 was plonked in his bouncer when newborn in front of dd while I decorated the flat!

My DS has been a late walker and a late talker!

Didn't say a single word until he was 1.9 years old. But now at 2.7 there's little that he doesn't understand & little that he can't say. He makes up stories, plays v imaginatively, & makes up songs while he's strumming his guitar. You only have to read a book to him a couple of times for him to memorise the entire thing (then he grabs the book & tells you the story!)

He also didn't take a single step by himself until 1.5, but two weeks later he walked just over 2 miles around a nearby lake. Although he started walking while I held his hands at 5 months old!

Basically, he didn't seem to do anything until he was very confident that he could do it.

Kids are all different though. They progress at vastly differing rates. But broadly speaking they all even out & by the time they're at school it'll be nigh on impossible to tell who talked or walked at what age.

Theas18
My potty trained before 1 daughter is on the g&t as she has a bizarre natural aptitude for maths (nothing to with me!)
My 'normal age' potty trained son is going the same way.

Not helpful at all, sorry!

Fwiw, I tested in top 2% at 13 in aptitude/logic tests at high school BUT that was my peak and by leaving school lots of others had caught up whereas I had hit my limit.

I don't put that much faith in g&t for that reason.

Well I hope you applauded her so that she knows she/her child is better than you/your child.

KingRollo, your DC may well be able to distinguish between the languages way earlier than three. My DS can and will switch if asked. We're taking part in a research study and their hypothesis is that babies and toddlers distinguish between languages and their different grammatical patterns very early.

whereisegg

I kind of feel the same about G+T. a bit hmm... Hope yours continue to love maths!

My "educational experiment" is sort of coming to fruition as DD1 is 20 .(before anyone jumps down my throat, my " experiment " has been to resist the tiger mum temptations and see what happens IYSWIM!).

My D's said his first proper repeated recognisable words at just over 7 months. By 8 months he had about 5 words etc. He then decided to only use about the same 15-20 words until he was 2. He's 2.4 now and I can't shut him up!

My little sister on the other hand is a year older than ds. First words same time etc, but was properly talking by a year. 16 months full conversations the lot. She is now 3.4 just gone uptp pure school and she can count ( not just in sequence) up to silly numbers....I've heard 80. She recognises every number and letter when written down and can match written numbers up to nu,amber of blocks etc.

They are all different! And I've heard a friends baby at 8 months say no milk Dada. Yes it was not pro bounced properly etc but I heard it a number of times.

My DD1 used to count Cheerios when she was around 15 months and used to push them individually across her high chair tray as she counted so I knew that she understood numbers and she could speak in sentences at 18 months but she is not G & T at age 6

It depends on what she means by talking.

I (prb) kept a record of words. But she had to use the word twice in
Over the years I have been told:
"My 6 month old says "hiya". They say it whenever they see me, so they obviously know what it means": Actually said child was saying "hihihihihihihihihihihihih" because they'd just discovered babbling. You can guess when child said "mamamamamamama"

One lady at toddler group used to "translate" for her babbling baby starting at about 7 months.
Baby: "babbabababbaba"
Lady: "She just said, she really likes your dress because her favourite colour is blue..."
Rest of us:
And yes, she was deadly serious.

8 month old who apparently used to ask for a story to be read by sainf "book" when mum demonstrated child was actually blowing a raspberry

And at the opposite end of the scale, a mother who spoke to me in tears because her ds was not talking at all at 18 months.
Upon talking to him and her I found that he could say lots of animal noises (including some unusual ones) if you showed him the animals, "choo choo" for train, "brmm" for car, and also had several words that weren't totally correct "joo" for "juice", and "bot" for "bottom" (wanting a nappy change), "mama" for "mum"... and lots more. Because he didn't say any words completely correctly, mum thought that they didn't count. He actually was quite advanced and said lots including putting words together.

And if you sing the alphabet/count in different languages they will learn them. They're just different words. how are they supposed to know that it's a different language?

To put a similar comparison, I could say "dd1 was writing full sentences-before she was 2yo".
It's true-of a sort.
What happened was when she was about 20 months she wanted to play on the computer like mummy and daddy. We had an old computer that didn't run any game more complicated than minesweeper, so the only thing she could do was type in word, as she couldn't really handle the mouse.
So it started as a game. She initially started pressing the keys randomly, then she started asking for particular words. So she would say "mummy". ANd I would say "m for mummy, u for umbrella..." while pointing to the right key to press. Soon I didn't need to touch which key to press, and it evolved to her saying a sentence, and me spelling it out.
It was a game just as much as pressing buttons on an electronic game. It resulted in her having "written" a sentence. But actually she couldn't have done it alone, so it wasn't really true writing. Saying she was writing in sentences gives the impression she was using a pencil and spelling it all on her own.

I'm always a bit skeptical when people say that they did this or that at a very early age. Dh's cousin apparently translate from one language to another when he was 12 months (yeah, right).

I did not talk until 3..had older siblings so I had no need. Apparently my first utterance was a sentence (according to my ma).

I managed to get a degree and am pretty switched on, so not talking did not hold me back.

And my daughter spoke recognisably around 16 months- she is very fluent and has a huge vocabulary now she has started school

Talking at 7 months seems to be no indicator of future scope.

DS said his first word- Dad- at 7 month and 1 week (I've just checked his baby book) - and he repeated it incessantly. Next day it was Mum- again repeated ad nauseaum. Oh we were so proud but by the end of that month when the vocabulary had increased to include words such as 'no' , 'won't' and his favourite 'out' it wasn't quite as much fun.
He has never shut up for the last 5 years and as he is at home all day for the summer holidays it is driving me to distraction. Be careful what you wish for.