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My son today decided it was really funny to let got of his tiny pushbike handlebars and walk backwards until he loses balance. Me catching him makes it way funnier and I'm like kiddo, you don't wanna find out otherwise. We're hopefully going to try get him on a waitlist for speech therapy as soon as we move but I've been trying super hard to get him talking. He's an amazing babbler and his comprehension of actual speech seems really good, he will not form a word for love nor money unless he wants to. In the process I managed to teach him how to make a mwah sound and now he kisses his toys. He's quacking like a duck too. Ms Rachel's had a lot of play since we decided tl step it up and it hasn't got him talking but he's learned all the dances and just today is signing for more when he eats. Thats not really on topic but that's were the little guy is atm.
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Oh yes for reference my son is 20 months old and also, and apparently this is big, is not in any kind of daycare. Olanphonia posted:My totally made up theory about kids learning to speak (in single language homes, dual or more languages will almost always delay speaking (which is ok)) is that as long as a kid is getting along fine with how they are currently communicating, they will continue to stay in that mode until it's no longer satisfactory for them. So, like, if a child can get the things they want, like snacks and books and entertainment, without needing a voiced vocabulary or with their current limited vocab, they'll just kinda sit there for a bit. Eventually their desires become more complex and so you see these bursts of new language as they understand and incorporate more of what you're saying into their speech. Yeah that's kind of how I'm trying to see it. Like this guy is communicating well with everyone, everyone around him kind of has good interpretation skills or is willing to try for him (I'm thinking of my dad who just seems to purposefully misinterpret things adults say to him) and like, maybe he's just satisfied with this level of communication right now? But I think the key thing is to not suddenly act stupid around him to get him to try harder, because that's just cruel. And probably sends the wrong message.
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Oct 24, 2025 18:57
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My son begging for shortbread by signing "MORE" to me is hard to resist I gotta say. I was supposed to be the strong parent!
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Oct 26, 2025 15:22
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Didn't take my son out this year but did dress him up as Chucky and watched some movies and ate sweets with him. He watched from the hall when people came by and then blew them kisses when they left, and he was so interested I took him out onto the street for a look. Here in Ireland there's bonfires going (though my area has notions and a group of our worst busy body neighbours put and end to it) and fireworks shooting off, he was pretty impressed with it and all the kids running around. He's 100% going out next year to load up. He slept super well even after the sugar too and he thought Fester Addams was super funny and was cracking up every time Christopher Lloyd pulled a face. Which is every single loving frame of both movies that he's in. He had a good Halloween. I popped on a mask I painted up years ago, some airsoft ballistic mask that I installed some prescription lenses in after my frames snapped and had leds in it at one point that would light up the eyes and mouth. And even though he saw me put it on and so knew it was me, jesus christ I've never seen actual genuine fear in that boy's eyes before. He was terrified, he needed a hug after that, so no mask for when the Trick or Treaters came around.
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Nov 1, 2025 23:50
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ninjahedgehog posted:TIL the fontanelle can pulse in time with the baby's heartbeat Don't believe the lies, that's their BRAIN woooaaaghhh
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Nov 4, 2025 19:57
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A small check in on my son's speech, we got him doing animal noises, his first call and response stuff ever, so we've been building up, very successfully, his library of animal noises. So far we have Quack, Meow, Moo an elephant trumpet and uh for some reason also a motorbike. Anyway he's starting to get why call and response is cool I think, because people around him are cheering for it. He spent a chunk of last night spontaneously yelling quack quack quack! Which about two week ago was "Gan Gan Gan!" and is now "Gwack!" And then in the last 24 hours he's said both "Grandad" and "all gone!" 
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Nov 5, 2025 12:52
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loquacius posted:I have a problem I could use input on: my mom keeps making bad art of my kids and giving it to us as gifts under the assumption that we will hang it in our house Ughhh my dad keeps doing this to everyone. He is NOT a good artist either. What's worse is he spent most of my teens making GBS threads over whatever creative hobby I was pursuing and now wants all this validation. Great Dad thanks, I have some advice for this bit you said you were having trouble w- oh you're just going to "lean harder"? ok. Well thanks for the Napoleon Dynamite portrait of my son you framed, I'll put it in his room or something I guess? I don't have input on this though, I've spent my entire adult life with multiple timers counting down on useless gifts. Ticking down til I figure it's been long enough to gently caress in the bin
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Nov 7, 2025 07:31
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Gamify going potty Grind out those potty points
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Nov 9, 2025 13:29
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Napping is where they put all that information together. We can do this as adults too but I think it just kind of doesn't come up as often
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Nov 15, 2025 08:30
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CarForumPoster posted:Dr. Wife has been chatting with parents about Ms. Rachel and has heard some say their kids started to talk at all/better/more after watching Ms. Rachel. We're considering relaxing our not-yet-talking 17mo's TV rules, <10m day, <30m/wk until 24mo, against AAP guidelines. Anyone ITT find that Ms. Rachel was coincident with better linguistic ability in their sub 2yo? Yeah I'm at 21 months here and he started watching at around 19 month give or take a few weeks. Initially we'd avoided Ms Rachel because both of us thought it was some cocomelon dancing fruit baby hypnosis but we popped her on once someone told me she was a speech therapist and had worked it into the show. It's been a little bit, and he's been very slow to speak, I think he's getting by with the tools he had already. He was very good at conveying his needs for sure, but his most advanced actual bit of communication was he could shake his head no. So he had like, point and no. His comprehension was and is brilliant Anyway he hasn't said much since starting to watch but he's picked up a heap of signs. His most used is "more" which is mainly a byword for food, very handy now that he can say he doesn't want whatever is in a bowl or a plate but that he's still hungry, I can sign more to him and he'll leg it to the kitchen like "hell yeah". Uh he's also slowly learning all the dances, some he knows fully, and we do them with him, he likes it when we switch up the order of bodyparts in ickysticky bubblegum and he has to quickly move his hands. Others he's less confident with or it kinda peters out when he runs out of moves he knows. And yeah words, hes not picked up many from it. We taught him to say "all gone" and what it meant recently, he's now reliably calling his Grandparents "Gran", I'm Da or Deeeeeee but he only ever seems to call his mother Baba. He'll only ever call someone their name if they're not there though, like if he's gone looking for you or once he finds you. She did teach him a heap of animal noises, which are fun. So now he quacks like a duck a lot, it's the only reliable call and response we have with him. He's also got weird context with it where any bird says quack quack so seeing a picture of an eagle will get him quacking which is close enough for now! Anyway, the show has helped him express himself a little better, upped his gestures, got a foot in the door on call and response. It's all poo poo you could probably do on your own if you knew to do it, but I think the novelty of it being on the tv actually got him to pay closer attention than if it was coming from me. If anything it at least has him prepped for speech therapy if he does still need it by the time we move, which feel like it'll never get sorted
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Nov 17, 2025 22:23
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Apparently at the last family dinner my wife and son went to my sister in law was mortified by how loud my son was being (in a well behaved, happy kinda way) in a loud family friendly restaurant full of loud Irish people being loud and kept shushing him. My wife left it because her sister had already gone nuclear and stormed out over something complicated over my wife's astrangement with some family and her wishes for them to not meet the kid. Which is to say, this Christmas when I have to see that little fuckin' brat and she does it again to my kid I'm going to tell her to mind her business with the full knowledge that it's going to be like dropping a bowling ball on the table
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Nov 29, 2025 12:38
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Sundae's kid could have run the League of Nations and we would have been none the wiser to it. RE: Christmas tree stuff, the entire house is reluctant to set up a tree this year because all the grandkids will be visiting different relatives this year (which is a whole different set of troubles holy moly). But both myself and my brother have massive crates from the local toy shop stacked in the dining room in preparation (massive because they also contained our neice's birthday presents!) and while my son couldn't care about opening presents he's dead fuckin set on climbing into one of the boxes. We've had to tape them all back up to stop him trying to get in or trying to push them over
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Dec 16, 2025 10:44
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Hard nap at about 4pm in his nanas while I played something on steamdeck next to him so he wouldn't freak out (and a bit for me tbh). Went downstairs to rejoin everyone and his aunt immediately went upstairs and woke him up  He spent the next hour in a deep depression smushing his head into my chest before he recovered. Full absolute meltdown at 20:22 with out out at 10. I was like uhohhh. I spent a LOT of Christmas eve and day being a baby wrangler, pulling him off the stairs or walking around behind him in restaurants and the like. I'm exhausted! Also his grandparents got him a big tiered scooter for Chrimmo and I do not know how the gently caress we were supposed to get it on to a loving airplane along with all his baby bags and poo poo
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Dec 26, 2025 18:19
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Finally home from Christmas. Got tired of being told my son was gonna be the only thing keeping my MIL's partner going sometime around St. Stephen's day. That's a lot to hang on a 22 month old, please do not instrumentalise your grandson. If someone told me that as a kid I'd have an anxiety attack. Only a few meltdowns over the whole week though, mainly because no one seemed to gaf about his bedtime 🤔 Kiddo finally got to go to the drat playground and hang out with a dog in a park and chase kids and scream and go on a scooter and actually have baby time once his aunt went the gently caress home and literally everyone's mood brightened lmao. It's almost like Christmas with kids rules? And grown up Christmas is weird and you shouldn't make kids do it? Huh? Also we had a knock on the door yesterday morning in the hotel. They'd had a bunch of calls to reception from someone talking... incoherently.. and had to call up to see someone wasn't having a heart attack or something. He'd been on the phone for ages, I didn't even see him dial reception!
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Dec 29, 2025 09:13
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Hadlock posted:I took my 7yo nephew down to the local seasonal creek so he could, in his words, "find the biggest rocks", which he then threw around for half an hour. After which he realized, he had not converted the creek into a simmering hellscape from all the "destruction" he had caused, got bored and we went home. He had a great time and was way less destructive around the house after the rock/creek episode Hell I'd do this now! Both me and my wife were back to work today but the rest of the family didn't take my wife's avoidant scheduling laying down and showed up anyway and we all ate and the cousins played. My son loves my niece (though she's only recently warmed to him) but he's still beat from travelling even after a lie in and a 2 and a half hour nap. So he needed little breaks while playing (to cry or have a hug). We got my niece a unicorn hungry hungry hippos and she loved it so much she wouldn't let anyone else play it with her because it was too cool to share. She kept checking with my sister that they'd packed it when they were leaving. I hope she grows out of that soon or she'll be a real handful lol My wife has one more dinner to go to this weekend with the kiddo but for me, Christmas is finally over. Family made it hard but my Son was amazing the whole time Shoehead fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Dec 29, 2025 |
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Dec 29, 2025 22:52
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RCarr posted:Just left the doctors. I can't imagine the relief!
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If you eat enough blueberries they dye everything black. I know that now
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