Posted on 01/04/2010 9:10:50 PM PST by ransomnote
The survey of more than 1,000 parents found that a child’s background was not a factor in how quickly they learnt to talk. Working parents who put their babies in day care are just as likely to have a child whose speech develops late as those who leave their baby in front of the television.
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Some may poo-poo the idea, but my grandson was two months premature and weighed 3.1 pounds when born. He still started talking at about a year, and full sentences by two. He is now 5 and can carry on a conversation with an adult.
My kids refused to have a TV, and when they brought him over, we turned ours off, too. His “special” treat on his 3rd birthday was to watch his FIRST video. His father read to him out of the Bible and read the whole thing to him before he turned one.
Glad to hear a positive result, such is not uncommon, less to no pop-culture and interlocking corporate media influence is healthy for growing children; keep up the good work.
Some brains take a little more time to develop. At least it did in his case.
hmmm....that looks interesting. My first daughter talked early, my second didn’t talk until she was two. And then it was her own language. Only her two year old sister and I had a clue what she was saying, and her big sister could interpret better than me. My two year old son hit two and started talking in complete sentences. I don’t know what the difference among the three really are.
I’m homeschooling the oldest now, and she’s easy. I can tell her brother will be an easy student. The middle one, she can count to one hundred but doesn’t know all her letters yet. She’s the main reason why I am homeschooling. She learns differently, and I haven’t been able to figure it out yet, and I’ve worked with her for four and a half years, I can’t expect a teacher to figure her out along with thirty other children within the next nine months.
I just want to confirm that here in Northern California, there is indeed a push to put kids in daycare or preschool. We have twin 2 yo toddlers, and people are constantly asking not if, but when we plan to put them in preschool. My answer is “Never!” I never went to preschool myself and I see no reason why they need to — and a thousand reasons why they shouldn’t.
Exactly!! Dr. Sowell and Einstein didn’t speak until 3.
You mean a reaction to vaccines you got in the military? Um, yeah, it could be. Adults are less fragile than newborns, but enough of that crap in you and it’s bound to cause a reaction.
We have a child in our family who is extraordinarily bright at 2yrs. old. He’s a pointer. You can ask him about anything ..names of people, reading story books.. colors and numbers, and he’ll point to every one correctly..but he will not say them. And even Latin letters and numbers!
He does say Mama and Dada and thank you..it’s as though he sees no reason to say these words since an adult is showing them to him in the first place so why repeat them.
I feel too much of an issue is made on how soon children speak....if there are no health issues causing this then let them be...they’ll talk when they are ready.
Kids in our family are sitting in someones lap being read too and looking at pictures from early on. I’ll bet the biggest cause of poor language skills is disinterested parents.
Perhaps these children are not speaking out of complete shock and inability to control even the smallest things in their lives so that they feel completely helpless to change things by speaking up and realize it’s worthless to do so, anyway-—oh, wait, I must be thinking of the mindset of AMERICAN VOTERS>>>>>>
That’s great. My son’s not two yet, and he can say some simple sentences “Hi Daddy” and “Whatchoo doin’?”.
He does watch some TV—well, DVDs mostly. But I’m starting to see the logic in having no TV in the house at all.
Dennis Prager has said that he was a late talker. His uncle thought he was retarded.
My grand-daughter will be 18 months on Jan 8. she has been taken care of by her mom, and by both her grandmothers when Mom is working.
D-I-L is Columbian and bi-lingual, her mom speaks only Spanish when Elly is with her.
Without a day of day care or any other government sponsored bullcrap - Elly is talking in full sentences already, and doing it in both english and Spanish. If fact she will point to something and say what it is in both languages, and is now teaching Paw-paw and Nana spanish.
I didn’t talk until I was seven, then one day I finally said to my parents during dinner, “I don’t like Spinach.”
Then my parents asked me, “Why did it take you so long to talk,” and I told them, “Well up to now I haven’t had any complaints.”
Great. Now my wife is getting flustered that our 20-month-old isn’t talking yet. Give kids some time before getting bent out of shape about the issue! This little girl clearly understands language well, following complex directions; my guess is she’ll just start talking whole sentences when she’s ready (soon).
Methinks the article is a statistical mess, making a big deal about vague interpretations of poorly collected data. It’s written to instill hysteria.
One of my newphews is the same. He is a chatterbox now.
Going to law school is proof of brain damage.
(Disclosure: I am a lawyer...)
My son is a late talker, too. So was one of my brothers. The other brother spoke in complete sentences at 12 months. Sometimes kids need to be left alone to have their differences.
My son started speaking a whole lot better a month after we broke down and started letting him watch more TV.
I can't say I disagree...lol
Actually he really just wants the degree. It was my idea. He plans to go into law enforcement and has a degree in criminal justice. I thought it would help him a lot and open more doors if he had a post grad law degree as well.
He was behind the curve for most of his growing up. He played with younger kids for example.
IIRC, I had some of the same issues as a kid but was forced to grow up by circumstances and being the oldest of three. The boy I am talking about is the youngest of three and he took his time because he did not have to rush.
A bit lazy too....lol
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