r/CuratedTumblr • u/GinaWhite_tt TeaTimetumblr • 7h ago
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u/AlINaturalEva 7h ago
Children already show a solid grasp of how to navigate social interactions. On top of that, this is genuinely endearing.
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u/BigBallsAnthony69 Slapping my GIANT queer balls onto the table as i type this 7h ago
A baby can interact with people better than i can. Chat, am I cooked?
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u/alkmaar91 4h ago
Just start over you may have missed a step. Work your way up from babies and report back.
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u/CaptainRex5101 4h ago
Yeah it's insane how the majority of humankind basically has superpowers when it comes to automatically picking up social cues, especially compared to me who has AuDHD.
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u/FanFictheKid 49m ago
What I find interesting as an undiagnosed whatever I am, it seems more like AuDHDers can still pick up on them, just not consciously or by choice. More of a reflexive 'something has changed but I don't what' and a reaction
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u/Eitel-Friedrich 7h ago
Our friends child, at about one year, did not speak the language - but had his own words for things that he reliably reproduced. and he could be used as human laser pointer - "where is the lamp? where is mom? " etc and he reliably pointed at the right thing or person.
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u/NicoleNicole1988 7h ago
My son had a consistent language for things too. He started asking to nurse at a few months old, by making a particular sound that got clearer and more deliberate as he got older, and remained his name for “boob” until I weaned him at 2 years.
He could also count to 10 before he was a year old, but he had different names for a couple of the numbers. Consistent names. I could hold up a flashcard and he would call it by “that name” every time.
Right before he started speaking in actual English I had documented a vocabulary of around 20 “words” that he made up. And there may have been more that I just never noticed.I’m not sure it’s as uncommon as it seems, I think we’re just not always paying attention. Babies are constantly doing amazing things while we think they’re just bobbling around.
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u/Eitel-Friedrich 6h ago
I don't think its uncommon - just, astonishing that such a young and small human has so many right thoughts! :)
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u/BobcatTim 6h ago
Yeah, babies definitely understand language well before they can speak it. When my son was one, and only had a few words (mama, dada, keke (kitty)), he could still follow multi-step instructions, like “take your shoes off and put them by the door.”
I guess it makes sense. You gotta understand the language before you’re going to put in the effort to reliably make the sounds.
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u/negasonicwhattheshit 6h ago
When I was little my word for banana was "nana". The only problem was that my word for myself was also "nana" (my actual name is Julianna, not easy for a toddler to say lol), so to ask for banana slices I would say "nana a nana". One day my mom was really tired and wasn't understanding what I meant, so after repeating that a few times and getting more and more frustrated apparently I just shouted "JUNANA. BANANA." We all still laugh about that to this day 😂
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u/Ralexcraft 6h ago
Could you point him at a gold ore and would he say baby speak for “we’re rich”?
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u/Eitel-Friedrich 6h ago
I dont think that would work. Also, he's already 2 by now and speaks normal langauge!
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u/The_MadMage_Halaster 2h ago
That's thought to be pretty much how new word roots (ones not related to or derived from any other roots) arise in languages, someone makes up an original word for something and it sticks. Except usually we get a consonant feed of words from other people that correct the ones we come up with, but some stick around, mostly in slang that eventually becomes mainstream. Though truly original roots are very rare, as most are influenced by vaguely sounding like other words. It's either this or onomatopoeia.
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u/Maniacal-Blueberry 6h ago
That shows why it's so important for people to properly raise their children. Children can be rowdy no matter how you raise them, but they can learn manners and social cues quite young. Sometimes the best way to raise a child is to do normal everyday things and encourage them to do the same just at an easier level. Like when you clean, you should have them help you. Even if it would be faster if you do it by yourself, it'll be worth it in the long run.
Aka being a parent is learning patience.
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u/DolIJoya 7h ago
Avoid speaking to your infant in simplified baby talk. Instead, address them as though they were a small adult and stick to ordinary sentence patterns. As a result, once your child starts using words, their conversational abilities will be significantly stronger.
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u/Recidivous 7h ago
To further add, you can still take on a playful tone with them, but avoid going "goo goo ga ga" or other gibberish. My mom cared for children and toddlers for most of her life, and while she does do a voice when speaking to children, she is always clear with her words and pronunciation.
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u/TQCkona 7h ago
fun fact! that tone of voice is known as child-directed speech, and it's a pretty popular field of study in developmental psychology. adults tend to subconsciously use shorter sentences with higher rates of word repetition at a higher pitch when speaking to young children, and this form of speech has been shown to improve the learning of new words for those children compared to adult-directed speech. to reiterate though, don't do the "goo goo ga ga" thing
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u/YawningDodo 5h ago
My teacher for a course on hearing and communication in college (don't remember why I took it, but it was neat) said the higher pitch was to make the sound clearer for children's shorter ear canals. Don't know if that's proven or not! But it did make me think about how when I was a kid, other kids' voices didn't seem high-pitched to me but kids' voices sound very high to me as an adult, to the point that it's one of the factors that makes them harder for me to parse.
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u/CrazyCatLady9777 4h ago
I know it is proven that children can hear higher pitches than adults can. So I'm inclined to believe that the rest of it is also true.
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u/Ravian3 4h ago
I definitely distinctly remember that for the first few years of my life adults would talk amongst one another in a way that I could only sort of understand compared to when they talked to me. If I made an effort I could piece some words together, but otherwise it just faded to background noise. (Probably didn’t help that I had hearing problems for a fair bit of my childhood though)
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u/The_MadMage_Halaster 2h ago
The one situation where the "Goo goo ga ga" thing can actually be useful for clarifying valid phonemes. Eg: "I wan' a bickle" "No, it's a pickle. Pi pi not bi bi."
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u/autogyrophilia 7h ago
Speak to them like a victorian ghost so they talk like a hopeless romantic as adults.
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u/Optimal_Savings5873 6h ago
Another good parenting tip is to only allow media created before 1998 in your house so they never know what the other kids are talking about
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u/All_the_Bees 6h ago
Bump this back 25 years and it’s basically how I was raised. It didn’t make me a weirdo social outcast at all! 😩
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u/Ornery-Cut4553 5h ago
I grew up without TV or video games and this is why I really don't stress too much about my kid's screentime (as long as he also does other stuff now and then)
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u/GinaWhite_tt TeaTimetumblr 7h ago
While amusing, this is how most people learn skills: mimicry. Children, especially young ones, lack context or knowledge to work with, yes, but they also have no conditioning to feel embarrassed about "getting it wrong" while trying to do things the way people expect. As a teacher I always wish we didn't teach people this fear of being wrong (not that you shouldn't ever have that fear; engineers, for example, definitely should to some degree), because you learn best when you allow for mistakes.
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u/Altruistic_Sail_1991 6h ago
One of my favorite facts is about how infants acquire speech!. They start off babbling random sounds, but eventually those sounds become sounds that are used in their language! So before certain point in their development, all baby babble sounds the same. Then, there are distinct differences in how their babbling sounds if, say, they’re learning English compared to Spanish.
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u/le-derpina-art 6h ago
once heard that if you brought a 6 month old baby to any country in the world, they would be able to learn the language
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u/Holmbone 5h ago
Yeah people don't realize that the feeling of not being able to do something... that's when you're learning.
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u/Seversaurus 7h ago
My absolute favorite thing about being a parent is getting to watch them really emerge as a conscious and intelligent entity all to there own. Its amazing that I get to watch in real time as my daughter watches me pretend to put gas in her littletikes car and slowly move from simple mimicry to making the motions and noises when we pull up to a gas station, Eureka! Understanding! The ability to observe and match patterns in an abstract way that is so complicated as to be borderline magic to all but the most learned scholars and my 3 year old nailed it in an afternoon. Its easy to think they are off in their own world or not paying attention but they really are soaking in everything around them, even when think they arnt.
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u/extremely-cynical 7h ago
Kid is the reincarnation of a Victorian street urchin apparently, with those pocket-picking instincts.
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u/Tylendal 7h ago
That's probably my favourite thing about babies. You can see a curiosity behind those eyes. They're watching everything so intently.
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u/tremynci 6h ago
Not only do kids understand language way before they can speak it, they pick up their accent before they speak properly, too!
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u/Ok-Educator5009 3h ago
The granola bar being stolen from her mom really completes it. She understands that workers deserve tips and that this should cost her personally nothing.
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u/momonomino 6h ago
I always talked to my kid using full sentences, no baby talk, etc. We also read to her from birth. She's now 12, reading at an adult level and can make complex inferences while reading The Odyssey for school.
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u/thatshygirl06 i condone biting and violence 3h ago
No baby talk but the voice is fine though, studies show the higher pitch voice is helpful for babies and toddlers to learn .
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u/InfiniteAnnual6942 2h ago
The og neurotypical baby? Getting social cues before learning how to speak adultly???
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u/Razor1834 2h ago
You’ve been banned from [r/endtipping](r/endtipping)
Please provide the baby’s username as well.
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u/BEEEELEEEE Sleepy 1h ago
My British wife took me on holiday with her family last year and during brunch one day her two year old nephew grabbed an empty teacup, stirred it with his spoon as if to mix in the sugar, and “drank” from it.
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u/Silvervirage 7h ago
When i worked as a server at a waffle house, a mom and her maybe around 4yo came in. When they were leaving she left a tip on the table and the kid grabbed it and ran after her going "mommy you dropped this". She brought it back telling the girl 'no when they do a good job you leave them something' and the girl stood at the table for a moment, and then got a tiny slinky out of her pocket and put on the table. It was the cutest tip I ever got, I still have it in my car.