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My son could say 15 words by his first birthday

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furrycat · 25/10/2007 13:52

..and that's not including something sounding alarmingly like "Bob the Builder". Is that very unusual?

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TheEvilDediderata · 25/10/2007 13:53

Highly.

CantSleepWontSleep · 25/10/2007 13:54

Hell no. My dd was writing her thesis by that age. Your son is sooooo slow.

Hulababy · 25/10/2007 13:54

No idea if unusual or not, but my DD was an early talker and was very verbal by her first birthday.

Just enjoy him - I loved those early little converstaions and chatting - so sweet and so fun.

JodieG1 · 25/10/2007 13:55

My son is 9 months and reads shakespear darling.

Moomalicious · 25/10/2007 13:55

It's Chaucer in our house, all that olde english, don't you know.

Listmaker · 25/10/2007 13:57

My dd1 was like this, dd2 had no words at 12 months but she is now the better reader, better at literacy etc so it's great but doesn't mean he's a genius!

Kewcumber · 25/10/2007 13:59

my DS has three words at 2yrs. He's cries when I sing in the car. Should I be alarmed?

VodooLULUmama · 25/10/2007 14:00

it is unusual, but not neccesarily a sign he is G&T or a genius. enjoy the conversations, as Hulababy said, it is so very cute. also, i found my DS, who spoke early, to be much easier than my DD who did not have 50 words at age two, being able to communicate is great !

Bluestocking · 25/10/2007 14:04

15 words? In English? Is that all? My DS could order his own takeaway in perfect Putonghua.

pagwatch · 25/10/2007 14:09

Kewcumber
my DS used to put his hands over his ears and shriek noooo when i sang.

EmsMum · 25/10/2007 14:12

Kewcumber - lots of kids don't talk much by 2. Its probably only a worry if its because they can't hear well. Clearly your DS can else he wouldn't already be a music critic

BroccoliSpears · 25/10/2007 14:14

How do people know how many words their DC can say. It's so organic and dd learns new stuff every day and forgets other stuff and comes out with things I had no idea she knew... how do you count?

EmsMum · 25/10/2007 14:14

Anyhow, the correct response to the OP is, clearly he's no Einstein.

FurryCat, its at the early end of normal and lovely for you. Enjoy

BroccoliSpears · 25/10/2007 14:15

And why would you count?

BroccoliSpears · 25/10/2007 14:16

(Sorry - not meaning that to sound aggressive, just interested.)

TwigorTreat · 25/10/2007 14:19

I think its so very lovely when you are just so bursting with pride that you want to shout out from the rooftops how very very fabulous your DS is ... and isn't he? .. isn't he great and clever and wonderful and marvelous .. relish these feelings as they're what makes being a parent so very special and they can fade in the minutae of being a parent
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BTW DD didn't say her first word till she was over 2 but DS was an early talker. They're both extremely bright of course

morocco · 25/10/2007 14:27

cool
it's so very handy if they can talk at an early age, except all mine ever wanted to say was 'no'
ds1 was a late talker ds2 early but no idea how early, sorry, they are both chatterboxes now though
out of interest, what are the 15 words???

(dd1 is only 6 months and can already say mum and dad in arabic, so clever lol)

BarbieLovesKen · 25/10/2007 14:29

aw so lovely to hear you bursting with pride!!

I read/ heard somewhere that the "average" (whatever that is!!?) is to have 40 words by 18months - so if thats any help!

ScaryScienceT · 25/10/2007 14:33

I think it is within the bounds of normal. I remember when my DS1 was a year old, I used to have a count of his words, and shared development milestones with someone at work with a PFB the same age. I'm sure we were in the region of 15-20 words around the age of 1.

My next 3 were closer to 18-24 months before they had much of a vocabulary, and then my fifth was pretty advanced, speaking quite fluently by the time she was 2.

demonaid · 25/10/2007 14:42

Unusual but not freakish (probably the best way to be) .

I really love the way babies/toddlers say "Bob the Builder" before they get the hang of enunciating the individual words. DS has started saying it properly now, and I'm being forced to have another baby just so that I can still hear "Budabeeuwduh" (or whatever it is... I think it defies transliteration)

Meglet · 25/10/2007 14:44

Seems pretty impressive! All my 11 month old seems to say is 'doot', aimed at anything (people, food, pets, toys, doors etc).

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furrycat · 25/10/2007 14:57

BroccoliSpears I just counted because I am a super-proud mama and other people had commented how good he was at talking. So on his first birthday last month I just sat down and counted up a list of all the words I remembered hearing him say.

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BroccoliSpears · 25/10/2007 15:26

Fair enough.

Now I'm thinking that I'm not an attentive enough mother. My dd is going to kill me for not keeping baby books because I haven't recorded any of her 'firsts' and at only 17 months I already have no idea when she got her first tooth or what her first word was.

Oh no wait! It was the dog's name. Phew.

MrsArchieTheInventor · 25/10/2007 15:31

Did anyone else tell the world and his wife when their child said their first word or had a wee on the potty for the first time?! Or was it just me who went into work when ds did his first wee and told my boss?! I was so proud, you'd have thought he'd discovered a cure for cancer!

puppydavies · 25/10/2007 15:46

heh we still call it boddaboodda. i kept a little blog for dd1 partly to share pics and cute stories w/friends and family, but mostly because my memory is appalling and i knew i'd forget everything otherwise. needless to say i don't appear to have found the time yet w/dd2 (but i will try as i love to read it over now).

i studied child development briefly and i think it's magical to watch how they learn and grow and taking delight in it is one of the joys of parenthood.