Do your children 'beat around the bush'?

[lougle]

DD2 just asked me:

"Mum, if you were a child, say 9...or 5....or any number except a teenager or adult, and you had porridge, would you have Spanish Porridge; porridge with salt?"

She can't seem to ask a general question so she gets bogged down with specifying the possibilities.

Yes Dd3 does this too. She also goes right back to the start if she forgets some tiny random detail or if she gets the sequence of events mixed up.

The SALT said she used very precise language unusually so for someone her age. She was 8 when she was tested!

She does have word finding difficulties sometimes but at the same time she uses fantastic words.

We got the Ed Psych report today, she decribed Dd3 as complex!! Damn right!!!

dd2 occasionally does this, yes. Has difficulty structuring her ideas, and also knowing what information is important/relevant (pragmatics, again).

Hope your dd2 is sleeping a bit better Lougle

DS does this too. Sometimes he takes so long to get to the point that he forgets what it was and asks me 'What was I talking about?'

Yes. All the time. DS1 will sometimes break off after attempting a word a few times without success and mutter "my brain isn't working right."

She is, thank you, Handywoman.

It's odd, isn't it?

DD1 seems to go a bit vacant during her conversations, but she generally knows what she wants to say, even if it takes her a while to get there, and she knows when something has come out wrong, or unclear.

DD3 is madam precision - she's 4 but she speaks with a maturity and ease of an older child. For instance, when the doctor asked her where her ear hurt she said 'it hurts deep inside'. She's absolutely sure of herself - what she wants to say, how she's saying it, etc. If she doesn't know a word she'll use quite sophisticated descriptions of the item/concept for us to tell her the word, then she'll say 'yes, x', and carry on.

DD2...I can't work out if it's relevance or simply that she doesn't quite know where she's going in a conversation until she gets there and then she's unable to generalise, hence '9, or 5, or any other number that isn't a teenager or an adult.'

Dd2 does but i think its partly a vocabulary issue, or st least a rememberibg what words mean issue because she does it much more in english, which is her weaker language. Last night we had an extremely muddled exchange that i only managed to detangle when i realised that when she was saying spend she meant save.....

Lougle sounds like my DD! Try that with severe hypernasality and speech articulation issues and it's very frustrating all round! I keep saying to her to keep it short get to the point. No need for the background info.