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someoneintheshadow456:
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willow-wanderings:
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I often work with children and it makes me kind of sad when I’m at work and I start talking to a small child and their parent says something like, “oh, she’s sixteen months, she can’t understand you.”
Like, 1. I know what a toddler is and 2. not with that attitude she won’t.
I started speaking full sentences at 11 months. They were extremely simple sentences, e.g. “I wanna banana!” but they were full fucking sentences.
My pediatrician attributed my “precociousness” to the fact that my mom actually… y'know, TALKED to me, lol. My mom was treating me like an actual entire person, so I learned fast!
Basically anyone who has the attitude of “my kid isn’t old enough for X so no one should try” is going to significantly stunt their child’s development and should be put in time out until they learn to be a less shitty parent.
I knew the entirety of ‘Take Me Home Country Roads’ by the time I was 18mo old, and would sing it whenever no one was stopping me from singing it.
I’ve also known kids who didn’t speak until they were 3, but then started speaking suddenly in full sentences, because adults had been talking to them the whole time.
Kids are wild.
Kids are people, adults should learn that.
I see this attitude with autistic and disabled kids as well but in a different way, like parents with autistic children say “they’re autistic, they’ll never learn anything or be like other kids, there’s no point in teaching them and they won’t understand.”
And that leads to autistic kids never being able to integrate or manage because everybody just collectively gave up on them.
I talk to the kids in my classes constantly. Yeah, they don’t understand most of the time since this is their second language and they’re six, but still. maybe one day they’ll realise their teacher is making non-stop meme references.
someoneintheshadow456:
dreamers-queen:
vaspider:
willow-wanderings:
draconym:
I often work with children and it makes me kind of sad when I’m at work and I start talking to a small child and their parent says something like, “oh, she’s sixteen months, she can’t understand you.”
Like, 1. I know what a toddler is and 2. not with that attitude she won’t.
I started speaking full sentences at 11 months. They were extremely simple sentences, e.g. “I wanna banana!” but they were full fucking sentences.
My pediatrician attributed my “precociousness” to the fact that my mom actually… y'know, TALKED to me, lol. My mom was treating me like an actual entire person, so I learned fast!
Basically anyone who has the attitude of “my kid isn’t old enough for X so no one should try” is going to significantly stunt their child’s development and should be put in time out until they learn to be a less shitty parent.
I knew the entirety of ‘Take Me Home Country Roads’ by the time I was 18mo old, and would sing it whenever no one was stopping me from singing it.
I’ve also known kids who didn’t speak until they were 3, but then started speaking suddenly in full sentences, because adults had been talking to them the whole time.
Kids are wild.
Kids are people, adults should learn that.
I see this attitude with autistic and disabled kids as well but in a different way, like parents with autistic children say “they’re autistic, they’ll never learn anything or be like other kids, there’s no point in teaching them and they won’t understand.”
And that leads to autistic kids never being able to integrate or manage because everybody just collectively gave up on them.
I talk to the kids in my classes constantly. Yeah, they don’t understand most of the time since this is their second language and they’re six, but still. maybe one day they’ll realise their teacher is making non-stop meme references.