DH knows less about our child's speech than the Special Needs mumsnet board!!!!!

[lingle]

Oh my god.
DH is now making an effort to reread Hanen and put in daily time with DS2.
From a conversation last night, I realised that at least a dozen of you know considerably more about where DS2 is at on speech than his own father!!!!!!

Do any of you fancy popping over to ours and telling DH about his child? I'll make you a nice cup of tea? go on, please? There's a nice view of the moor from the kitchen window.

Please tell me I'm not the only one to have had this experience! I'm going to print out the old vocab lists and some mumsnet posts and give them to DH.

No wonder he keeps getting it wrong when he's working with DS2!

99% of fathers are like this. Really good that he's realised though and is re-reading Hanen etc.

But tbh it is easy to get it wrong. I've over-estimated ds1's understanding for quite a while recently because he has such a good noun vocabulary (he knows them all) and he uses that to guess the rest of a sentence. So he can respond correctly to complex sentences if he can work it out from the nouns. Had me fooled for quite a while.

At least he's read Hanen the first time unlike some(!). IME Kids with receptive language problems can be stunningly good at covering up for it - by watching others/listening to others' responses to try and get the right answer.

It's my own fault as much as his . I've now had to volunteer to take over as chief laundry officer so he can have more daddy time