16 month old - may be G&T am i doing enough?

[mozarellamamma]

Hello there

My daughter is chatting away and talking in (very) rudimentary sentences. Various health proffessionals from pediatricians to the GP have commented on her being bright. Not too worried about measuring if that's the case right now but I'd really welcome any suggestions on the kinds of activities and toys others have found to be right for their children. Want to be sure I'm not missing anything she needs that's all. Cheers - MM

I think 'daft' was meant in the nicest possible way, mm - hence the after it

All people meant was please don't make youself anxious (and potentially run risk of transferring that anxiety to her) by worrying about not 'stimulating' her enough. If she is bright/gifted whatever, it will emerge later, and all she really 'needs' now is plenty of play/fun/talking with you.

I think your dd sounds lovely and like my dd3 as bright as a button and chatting away...but as long as she is not bored, ANYTHING that grabs her attention is good. You don't need special toys or anything....

FWIW ds (21 months) loves the phone, the newspaper and a particular milk jug most of all He also loves helping to put crockery/washing/shopping away.

Think the dyspraxic baby doesn't crawl because of the dyspraxia, not becomes dyspraxic because he doesn't crawl.

Jimjams2, you're right...Dyspraxia's a neurological disorder which affects motor skills!

soz being sensitive - mm x

gosh dd2 could say (and knew what they meant) loads of words at 18 months and could jump but I never thought about G+T

like lots of people have said that is something that comes later

just keep talking to her lots and above all loving her

My little boy was putting three and four words together at 13 months, he's bright now (at four) but no recognisable talents or gifts just yet. But that said I had an IQ of 138 at 7 and I'm not G+T now!!
Like the others have said enjoy and learn through play!

My dd was an AMAZING talker - as I've said before, she was a local celebrity - in the paper and everything - because you could hold conversations with her at 12 months. It was huge fun - she was chatting away but couldn't walk. It was like having a conversation with a cottage loaf! But gradually everyone else caught up -and she is now a bright but not dsuper bright 12 year old. Enjoy her, but don't feel you ahve to do anything special. Oh, and make sure you video her chatting - we didn't and I still regret that all we have is a snippet that appeared on out local TV news of her talking about going swimming in the new out door pool.

This thread is over a year old?

aww seeker she sounds fab

aww seeker my dd was like at about 14 months old and she was tiny for her age, it was so sweet!

I know this sounds a bit harsh but my son was chatting away at this age. He's in Year 1 now and although he is good at some subjects he's behind in both reading and writing. Definately not G&T!

No no no

No need to resureect a long-dead thread

Aaaargh

Stop it

Grrrrrrrrrrr

Who are these people?

Do they have a zombie plan?

Why do this thread rear its head with a two month interval?

THIS AND MANY OTHER QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED AS SOON AS YOU ADMIT YOU ARE A PLEB!

this thread is from feb 07.
the child is now at oxford uni.

lol at HC and QS.

Is mn so slow atm that there is resurrection occuring, this happened to me only a couple of days ago.

Tis unnerving.

StorminanEcup: You can be a late pleb here We need as many folk as possible if we want to overthrow the Mumsnet Royalty, tarnish their tiaras and establish once and for all that the little voice COUNTS, and many small voices are ONE BIG VOICE!

You too, HC and Trotslursky....

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