Children's Speech

I believe that every child is completely different. My daughter was speaking in complete sentences and was able to carry on a very adult conversation by the time that she was eighteen months old. My son, on the other hand, was a little bit slower to start talking, but when he started, it seemed like over night he was able to go from saying very little to saying everything that one can possibly say. He is only three and a half years old now and is often mistaken for being much older because of the fact that he talks so much and acts so very mature.

All my children have spoken early. My eldest daughter ( she is 38 now) was a real chatterbox, we took her on a coach holiday when she was 14 months old and she entertained the coach with nursery rhymes all week. I have four daughters and 1 son, the only one of my children who was a little slow in speaking was the second daughter - but that was because her big sister spoke for her, any time anyone asked her a question her big sister answered it. However she still spoke well at 18 months. I think sometimes that today's children seem t be slower speakers and I wonder if this may be a parenting thing - when my children were young there was one or two hours during the day when there was TV for them to watch the rest of the time I spent teaching them rhymes and songs etc which must have helped with their speech. I also think that disposable nappies have made parents lazier with potty training - when we had to wash terries we certainly made sure they were out of nappies as soon as possible - 18 months at the VERY latest!!!

see, as a mother and experience of two kids, we should practice our kids,we should talk with them,play with them ,love with them,infact we should dance with them,isthis making kids to talk and active forthem,can you do it

I have 5 grandkids, the eldest is 16 years young and youngest 24 months, my observation is each child is unique in the matter of growth and other activities, there are heridity factors too.. they are influnced not only by the family members but also from the surrounding, neighbors etc.. Thanks for sharing. Welcome always. Cheers. Professor

well it depends on The genes of the parents and how the qulaity of genes adpoted by the child. and which parents has inteligent qualities

From my observation of my own kids, child who is fast learner will tend to get boring for an easy subject or things that they thinks not challenging enough for them. In your case is just the same like mine, my son took almost 8 months to walk properly. Maybe they use a lot of their brain to absorb speech skill rather then other things. ( Just a guess..)

I do believe that girls talk earlier, but not by much...both my daughter and granddaughter were talking very well by the time they were 2, my boys, although my oldest did talk earlier than his brothers, were all about 2 1/2 when they were talking well. Now that I have a grandson (all of 3 months old now) I am watching for this milestone to see when he will be talking well.

I've read about that, too but I am not really sure how it happened. Anyways, I've been observing the growth and development of my kids. Indeed, the girls compared to their brothers during at certain age learned to speak intelligibly than the boys did. i don't baby talk all my kids. I am talking to them from the very first day I'm aware of their lives like the way I'd talk to an adult. Here's what I noticed, too. The more often you are conversing wuth them the faster they will learn , boys or girls. Plus, I believe that the gene is a great factor for faster speech development in kids, too.

hi... see,as a mother and experience of one kids. I spent my time in my son. I am practice in my son. He should taking and playing with me. I spent teaching them rhymes and songs etc which must have helped with their speech.

Yes girls learn to speak fast. My daughter starting speaking fluently by 2 years. She spoke long sentences. She was a utter chatter box and never shut her mouth. Now at 7 she doesn't speak so much...