Absolutely delightful morning read, Sue, and spot on! I have always had a low tolerance of rambunctious boys' noise and you have turned me right around here. It takes them so long to develop language. Even in their teens, boys can be very limited in their vocabulary. One exclamation, "It sucks!" can translate as, "It's bad, it's mean, it's ugly, it's unfair, it's intolerable, it's disappointing, it's disgusting, it's unfortunate, it's stupid" -- the all purpose word! On the other hand, my three-year old niece was playing in the mud with a spoon and sauce pan. "What are you cooking?" I asked. "Tomato soup", she answered. "It doesn't look like tomato soup", I opined. She looked at me as if I were mentally deficient. "Auntie Sharron, I don't have the right ingrediments. Ingrediments! And her favorite garden flowers were geranimums. Ha ha ha. Little girls rule when it comes to language!
They certainly do. While Robby at three and a half is finally able to hold conversations ... sorta ... little Maddie at 15 months is already learning words that have meaning. Granted, they're not yet English, but she's trying. Robby actually had his own language which he would use with us and his daycare teachers. Jabbering away about some darned thing, all the while wondering why we were all so dumb.
Absolutely delightful morning read, Sue, and spot on! I have always had a low tolerance of rambunctious boys' noise and you have turned me right around here. It takes them so long to develop language. Even in their teens, boys can be very limited in their vocabulary. One exclamation, "It sucks!" can translate as, "It's bad, it's mean, it's ugly, it's unfair, it's intolerable, it's disappointing, it's disgusting, it's unfortunate, it's stupid" -- the all purpose word! On the other hand, my three-year old niece was playing in the mud with a spoon and sauce pan. "What are you cooking?" I asked. "Tomato soup", she answered. "It doesn't look like tomato soup", I opined. She looked at me as if I were mentally deficient. "Auntie Sharron, I don't have the right ingrediments. Ingrediments! And her favorite garden flowers were geranimums. Ha ha ha. Little girls rule when it comes to language!
They certainly do. While Robby at three and a half is finally able to hold conversations ... sorta ... little Maddie at 15 months is already learning words that have meaning. Granted, they're not yet English, but she's trying. Robby actually had his own language which he would use with us and his daycare teachers. Jabbering away about some darned thing, all the while wondering why we were all so dumb.