Our straight talking Lancashire lass takes a sideways look at the daily news.
Word games for babies
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Babies are at their cutest when learning how to speak. They make funny noises, talk in their babbling language and giggle a lot. It’s unbelievably sweet, and it’s a fascinating process watching them morph noises like ‘Wumphnurghglooh gaga’ into ‘Mummy could you pass the ketchup please?’
And now scientists have coined ’25 must-have words’ for babies to have by two-years. These words include mummy, daddy, banana, thank you and bye bye. If a child doesn’t have the grasp of this rudimentary vocabulary then this may indicate issues such as Autism or learning difficulties.
Of course, many children are simply late bloomers – you know the ones, they stay quiet for years causing untold stress to their frantic parents, and then start quoting Shakespeare out of nowhere. Which is probably more disturbing really.
The thing that makes me chuckle about this article is that it gives parents another tool to measure their precious children’s advancement compared to others.
I have many friends who have toddlers, and I’ve lost count the number of conversations describing how their kids are more advanced/better/brighter/more erudite/funnier/wittier/more creative than their nursery peers. As someone who doesn’t have children I find it amusing the number of women who can have the same conversation!
Anyhow, it’s heartening to see emphasis placed on good vocabulary in children. I was a proper little chatterbox at school, but I remember frequently getting told off by my primary school teachers for using long words. Yes, that actually happened.
Apparently having a fascination with words in an educational setting was considered ‘precautious’. Thankfully I was precautious enough to ignore them.
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