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Original poster

to think people should get off my back over ds2's speech?

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TheLadyEvenstar · 28/04/2009 20:55

he is 19m old and he says...
did it
out
up
mine
mama
dad
Rar (karl)
Ball
Door
car
no
yes
bed
nin nin (dinner)
Borrle (bottle)
da da (barney ok so sounds nothing like it)
shhhh
sit (and a combination of the last one and this which i do not encourage!!!)
shoe
dink
boobies
wee wee
rai room (shower or as we call it the raining room, only to him though)
woo woof (dog)
eowwww (cat)
get
it
daddy did it
and now

I am sure there are others but cannot remember them all. BUT I am getting so sick of people telling me he should be speaking more.

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ChippingIn · 28/04/2009 21:30

TLE - anyway he can say the important stuff.... Oh Shit - Daddy did it!!

(Yes, wasn't it a LONG time ago!!! LOL)

So, there's nothing wrong with his appetite or sense of humour then!!! LOL

Just enjoy him, he sounds like a cheeky, fun little lad!!

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TheLadyEvenstar · 28/04/2009 21:34

Chipping for a 19m old he has a sense of humour which kills me...well not literally.
Like the bra incident would have been funnier if had not had had people here and he was not running up the hallway to living room shouting boobies with my bra on his head while laughing!

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Sycamoretree · 28/04/2009 21:40

Oh, ignore definitely! DS is 19 months and that's about the size of his vocab too.

Though he has recently added "ca cake!" to the list.

(cup cake)

doobry · 28/04/2009 22:02

My DC didn't speak at all at 19 months and is now described by the teacher as very able with "amazing" communication skills!

It means nothing. They all do different things at different times. If they talk early it means they talk early. If they talk late it means they talk late. People read far too much in to these things.

MarlaSinger · 28/04/2009 22:07

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JackBauerkillspigs · 28/04/2009 22:13

God, my DD2 is 18 months and can say
Mummy (at varying pitches)
Babby (BM)
Daddy
DD1's name
No
Bown (bounce)
Yum
Taytee (tasty)
and
dink (drink)

Half of those only I can translate!
Dh is convinced she can also 'count' to ten by making random noises (un, oo, ee, or, ife, iggs, ever, ay, nii, teh) but DD1 is constantly counting so that is just repeating (badly) what she thinks is a rhyme.

The longer she can't answer me back the better

seeker · 28/04/2009 22:13

My dd was a freakishly early talker - there were tons of things she couldn't do - like walking and eating anything but mashed potato, but boy could she talk! She is now an averagely bright 13 year old who talks the same as any 13 year old, can walk as well as her friends and eats anything put in front of her.

Ignore everyone - they are all different and they all get there in the end. No one ever says about an 8 year old "My, he's a good walker/talker"

JackBauerkillspigs · 28/04/2009 22:14

Sorry TLE, meant to say to ignore them, or tell them to fuck off and mind their own!

Yurtgirl · 28/04/2009 22:15

My dd had about that number of words at 24 - 30 months - she still isnt entirely fluent at nearly 5

I wouldnt worry

jenwyn · 28/04/2009 22:19

Its not a modern thing to be worried about development of speech etc...

[As a child, Einstein seldom spoke. When he did, he spoke very slowly - indeed, he tried out entire sentences in his head (or muttered them under his breath) until he got them right before he spoke aloud. According to accounts, Einstein did this until he was nine years old. Einstein?s parents were fearful that he was retarded - of course, their fear was completely unfounded!

One interesting anecdote, told by Otto Neugebauer, a historian of science, goes like this:

As he was a late talker, his parents were worried. At last, at the supper table one night, he broke his silence to say, "The soup is too hot."
Greatly relieved, his parents asked why he had never said a word before.
Albert replied, "Because up to now everything was in order." ]

emalushka · 28/04/2009 22:20

What?! The OP is having a laugh. Getting dressed and potty trained at 19 months. Get real. Your child is a genius. Does that make you feel better?

singersgirl · 28/04/2009 22:21

I think that sounds like a pretty good list of words and combinations for 19 months. Loads of children aren't saying anything at all, or only a handful of words. As for potty training....Very few children are interested in or ready for that before 2 or more frequently 2.5/3.

(Psst..People do still say that 8 year olds are 'good talkers' but they phrase it differently; they say stuff like "Isn't she articulate?" or "Hasn't he got a mature vocabulary?" They also comment on the varied physical abilities of older children: "Billy's very agile", "Johnny's very fast", "Molly's a brilliant swimmer." Though, admittedly, what children are doing at 8 or 10 or 13 is quite unrelated to what they were doing at 1 or 2.)

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TheLadyEvenstar · 28/04/2009 22:25

By emalushka on Tue 28-Apr-09 22:20:12
What?! The OP is having a laugh. Getting dressed and potty trained at 19 months. Get real. Your child is a genius. Does that make you feel better?

Emalushka sorry? I have said he is NOT potty trained nor able to dress himself so your narky comment was uncalled for.

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MsMargotBeauregarde · 28/04/2009 22:26

god. my 3 and a half yr old doesn't say that much.....

FairLadyOfMuslinCloth · 28/04/2009 22:35

gosh, your lil one seems to speak well for the age....so...yeah....not sure what people's problem is....

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TheLadyEvenstar · 28/04/2009 22:40

Fair, he has 2 adults and a 10yr old brother around him.

I just thought he was "normally developing, was not looking to hear he was doing exceptionally well or anything I just with people would get off my back and stop telling me he is slow.

thanks xx

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FairLadyOfMuslinCloth · 28/04/2009 22:48

Well....especially boys can be slower anyway...can't they...

I think it is so horrible when people try to worry you so much, it's not liek we don't worry enough already.....and when there is no reason for that, it makes it worse....

In what sort of circles do you socialise...who is saying that they think there is a problems....? Just, that if you are around people with mostly older Kids...well...they will have forgotten really what their Kids did or have re-written their childs/childrens developemental history....

hehe...am a student and we have 2 pg girls now, (we are only first year students) and I was like, wow...quite brave , will be difficult....(not to them...in conversation to someone else) and that person was like...oh, well, by the time they are back Kids will be about 3 month and sleeping through....which prompted me to ask if she had Kids herself (and surprisingly she had one much older than I expected ...as I didn't know she was nearly my age)....but her dd is 19 (years old)....so....I wonder if maybe she has forgotten or was just blardy lucky....lol....because, well...my ys is 5.....and he has only started properly sleeping through and staying in his bed, lol....welll....most nights ...and none of mine slept through at 3 month, I know that much...
completely unrelated toop, of course, lol...just rambling on...

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TheLadyEvenstar · 28/04/2009 22:55

Fairlady,

it is one woman in particular who loves to tell me how her 17m old grandson can
read, write his name, dress himself, is potty trained, can call her everyday and say..

Morning Nanny I had tea with breakfast, how are you?

Phoned her at around 13m from spain on holiday without his parents knowing to tell her he had been swimming.

can cut his own food up, swim, and does so many other things. Ok I know most of these sound far fetched but still being told he is slow is irritating if nothing else.

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FairLadyOfMuslinCloth · 28/04/2009 22:57

hmm...she might be making that up, ya know ...or her grandchild might be exceptionally gifted or whatever....funny she isn't using her own children as shiny example ....
I would just ignore her....

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TheLadyEvenstar · 28/04/2009 23:00

Fair, oh no her own children hmm well lets see 1 is sen, 1 is a tearaway, 1 is a teenage slapper lilo lil, 1 is unable to do her homework as she is a little princess iyswim? and the other is the mother of the genius

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insertwittynicknameHERE · 28/04/2009 23:03

YANBU, DD is 17mo and people are always telling me that she should be talking more. I mean WTF do they want DC are all different and do things at there own pace.

It wouldn't so bad but DD actually says a lot of words and has just progressed onto stringing a couple together. The best thing about DD is she understands what she is saying IYSWIM. Also she can name and do the sound/sign (which she chose for each one) for well over ten animals.

Take no notice of them TLE (hard I know). your DS knows a lot of words for his age. I especially love the 'daddy did it', must teach that to DD

mumeeee · 28/04/2009 23:06

YANBU. That amountof words is fine at 19 months.

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TheLadyEvenstar · 28/04/2009 23:07

Insert it makes me giggle when Daddy did it
or Rar did it get shouted out.

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thatsnotmymonster · 28/04/2009 23:11

My ds was an early talker and could say hundreds of words at 18mo. My dd1 (who being a girl and 2nd child should have been quicker- or sdo everyone loved to tell me) could barely say ta at 20mo (she never said mama or dada).

She is now 2.75 and has fairly normal speech for her age- may be a bit babyish but not unusual.

YANBU AT ALL

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