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[mmcirvin]

Jorie now knows "bath". That's an important word to her. She's definitely trying to say "Jorie" when she looks at herself in a mirror, though it comes out more like "gee".

She'll try (to the limit of her ability) to repeat anything you say to her with the obvious intent of teaching a word, though she may not immediately connect it to the object in any persistent manner. When she's trying to learn to pronounce a particular word, she'll spend a long time repeating it with great concentration; she's still evidently honing the final phoneme in "bath" and knows it.

She says "blue" when she looks at the blue pages in one of her many books explaining Colors, but rather than getting the abstraction of a color, which seems unreasonably advanced to me, she might just think of it as the word for blueberries, which are prominently featured. Mostly she just wants to hurry to the page with the black kitten on it.

Animal noises are a big hit. She particularly likes making noises of fierce wild animals, lion roars and wolf howls. Going "RAAARRR" is a good way to get attention from parents, as she has discovered. Tonight she started doing the wolf howl while I was trying to get her to sleep. I tried to teach her that owls go "hooo" but in that case she was more interested in learning the world "owl".

At age 10 1/2 months she also knows one letter of the alphabet, namely, O. At least, she identifies her Fisher-Price stacking rings as "O", and goes out of her way to push the O button on one of her many fantabulous electronical learning toys so she can say "O" when the voice does. Literacy, I say!

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[kerri9494.livejournal.com]

Ooooh I just love her! :-) a) MORE PIX! and 2) Hmmm, is it hockey season yet? She MUST be ready for a game.

[eb-oesch.livejournal.com]

I applaud a student of language who is able to retain focus. "O" is an important letter that deserves to be taken seriously. With so many letters to choose from, it's easy to be distracted by the unimportant ones like "Q" and "S". I have never understood what the infinite expressiveness of language was for. Did our forebears never say, "Now, that's a thing worth doing! Let's not waste more time inventing new things to say until we have done this thing first." This surfeit of vocabulary even infects one's thinking. Children are taught this word rearrangement game in school while they are young and impressionable, and find themselves thinking about it even into adulthood. Yes, they need to be kept busy until they reach physical maturity, but there must be better ways that do not lead the mind and body astray.

I shall set an example. I will use the tools I need and discard the toys.

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[jmkelly.livejournal.com]

When my niece was two or so, she could usually be heard in the evening running over her vocabulary in her crib after she was put to bed.

You might start a little pool on when Jorie learns to say "NO!" That always seems to be one of the first three words they learn, and definitely the one they use the most at certain ages.

[asienieizi.livejournal.com]

It's hard to believe she's coming up on her first year already.