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Talking: expectations at three years

At three years, your child’s language is becoming more complex.  Sentence length is getting longer (about 3 words).  Grammar is really taking off.  You will hear: plurals (girls) past tense verbs (kicked) prepositions (in, on, under) pronouns (I, you, me) Your child will still make a lot of mistakes.  Especially with grammar.  Rules will be

Talking: expectations at two years

Communication seems to explode between age one and two.  Remember, just 12 months ago, your child said his first word.  Now, he is combining 2 words into phrases.  He will use some adjectives(describing words…red, big), action words (go, done) and pronouns (me, my).  You might hear these phrases: big truck Mommy go my book all done Speech

Talking: expectations at one year

This is an exciting time.  Around one year of age, your child will say his or her first word.  Your child may say things like:  “Ma, Dada, or bye”.  Imitation of words and sounds will begin. If he does not say a word, do not worry just yet.  There is a range of normal.  Some

Sabotage..a great strategy to entice your child to talk.

This is one of my favorite strategies to get children to talk.  Sabotage sets up the need for a request.  Here is a senario from a parent/child interaction that I witnessed: Child:  “Bubbles” Parent:  “Here you go” (takes the lid off and starts blowing) Child: (quietly pops bubbles) I explained sabotage to Mom and here

How to say BIRD and BIRTH

Our question today is:  ”How do you say BIRD and BIRTH?  No one ever understands me when I say these words.” BIRD is pronounced:    B-ER-D BIRTH is pronounced:    B-ER-TH The main difference is the last sound D or TH.  Be sure to stick your tongue out of your mouth for the TH.

Communication without TALKING

Children communicate in a variety of ways. We all hope that our child will talk. When this doesn’t happen then we look at how he can get his point across. Here are some ways that he may tell you something. Let’s use playing with bubbles to explore these non-verbal means of communication. Physical manipulation: Your

How to say WHERE, WARE, WEAR, WERE, and WE’RE

Today’s question is from a YouTube viewer:  ”I am so confused.  How do you say:  WHERE, WARE, WEAR, WERE, and WE’RE?” These words are very confusing due to the words’ spelling. WHERE, WARE, WEAR are pronounced:  W-AIR WERE is pronounced:   W-ER WE’RE is pronounced one of two ways depending on the location of the

How to say ANGEL

Today’s question is from Vietnam:  ”How do you say “angel”?  It sounds like I’m saying “anchel”.   Can you please make explain how to make the “g” sound vs the “ch”? ANGEL is pronounced:  Long A-N-J-L  or Long A-N-J-long U-L But, I think that your confusion is coming from the spelling.  The G in angel

I can’t hear the difference

Today’s question is from YouTube: “Hello Jennifer, First of all I am a frequent podcast listener and want to tell you this: “People did notice the difference!!! The more I listen to your podcast the more it seam that people get what I ask them or want them to do”, so thank you very very

How to say TWIG

Our question today is from Hong Kong:    ”Twig is very confusing.  How is it pronounced?” TWIG is pronounced the way that is it spelled: T-W-I-G. To say this word start with the T by placing your tongue behind your top, front, teeth.   Move to the W by pulling your tongue away from your