I was non-verbal for almost the first five years, so good luck with that mister “parent of the year”.
Get good.
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NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 hour ago
ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one 9 hours ago
I speak to my dog in complete sentences which was a mistake because now she knows every synonym for park, walk, treats, and any time we’re referring to her even if we just say ‘her,’ ‘it,’ or ‘the hound.’ She even learned that any time we spell a word it’s related to something she likes and she goes bonkers.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
“They’re deliberately trying not to look like they’re talking about me!”
“They must be talking about me!”
BlueLineBae@midwest.social 9 hours ago
We had a dog once that was super smart and would learn what different words meant very rapidly. I’d say with most dogs I’ve had, you can go most of their life and they’ll maybe learn 2-3 different words for “dinner” and you can use other words if you’re trying not to excite them too much. But this dog I swear near the end of her life we would have to say ridiculous things around her like “Did you put the K9 cereal in the receptacle?” because she had learned just about every other basic way to say “did you feed the dog?”.
ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one 9 hours ago
It takes her only 2-3 repetitions to learn a new word, it’s wild. She’s super clever but also the doofiest dog I’ve ever seen, it’s hilarious
Hikermick@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
With dogs i think the inflection in your speech is what they pick up on more so than the actual word. Same goes for spelling something out. Next time try singing it
Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Not OP, but my dog will pick up on singing it too. ymmv because she’s very smart.
WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o’clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
zanyllama52@infosec.pub 3 hours ago
According to Alfred Matthew Yankovic:
_There were seventy three of us living in a cardboard box. All I got for Christmas was a lousy bag of rocks. Every night for dinner, we had a big ol' chunk of dirt. If we were really good, we didn't get dessert._
WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
We were so poor, we use to get grandad around to decorate our Christmas tree by sneezing snot onto it.
“Bit more on this side, grandad!”
CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
Oh wow, deep cut. I had that buried somewhere in the
SOB_Van_Owen@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o’clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
I had to roll a boulder to the top of a mountain each day. And at the top, my liver would get eaten by an eagle. Afterwards the boulder would roll down and I had to start my work all over again.
But what do I know, I only see shadows on a cave wall.
Randelung@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
You try telling that to the young people today, and they wouldn’t believe you!
MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 4 hours ago
Wow, you were lucky! I grew up only knowing one type of knife because that’s all my dad could afford. Imagine growing up in a house where the whole family had to share one knife for both bread and poop!
Hikermick@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I avoid the baby talk with my nieces and nephews after they get past one year old. My oldest nephew said I’m his favorite because I don’t talk down to him
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 hours ago
laughs in condescending to children at a level they just don’t comprehend
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
This sounds like something from LinkedIn.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
If someone’s toddler starts talking about how AI is a paradigm shift I’m going to dropkick it
thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 4 minutes ago
At least the toddler has an excuse for parroting an idea that has virtually no semantic meaning to them-- That’s what toddlers do. The venture capitalists though…
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
😂😂😂
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 4 hours ago
Me, a chinese that only use one syllable word for my first 6 years: ._.
taiyang@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Two notes from my actual coursework in education and psych; first, baby talk exists for a reason but it’s the singasong voice that matters most, especially when they’re picking up sounds. The funny thing there is you can say absolutely terrible things in a singasong voice and they will love it and remember it better.
Second, the arse in the example isn’t actually all the way wrong, using vocabulary is important especially in that second and third year. I forget the author but there’s some studies that show preschool vocabulary is directly related to parental education and they found it’s because of the vocab the parents use. We’re taking tens of thousands more words learned. Too bad I can’t remember the author, just that it was four letters (and since leaving academia, my zotero is long gone).
JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Meh, Adam is obnoxious but correct
Ledivin@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Correct but obviously exaggerating. I’d love to hear his not-quite-2-year-old daughter “using” 4-syllable words 🙄
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
I’m not a wordologist. Do words become harder to say when they’re longer? I mean, alalalalalong has 6 syllables.
Tyfud@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I mean, California, and other states, are 4 syllable words.
LurkyLoo@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Obnoxious, but also NOT correct. As another poster pointed out baby talk does serve a purpose in language development, and is a pretty universal part of child rearing. It’s not some recent cultural phenomenon that’s holding people bad from their full potential (or whatever BS this person is trying to imply). Using big words or skipping the baby talk stage doesn’t lead to more rapid or better development.
fosho@lemmy.ca 18 minutes ago
that was just, like, their opinion, man
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
ted was triggered
Wilzax@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
As with most advice regarding early childhood development, your mileage may vary.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I baby talked my kids (now it’s Brain Rot). I also talk to them like an adult. I’ve always encouraged them to ask questions when they don’t understand something. My 9-year-old is not shy about stopping mid-conversation and asking what a word or phrase means.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Not sure why this triggered a snarky response unless Ted is just waving a monkey puppet for internet points. Talking normally to your kids isn’t rocket science, and it’s not stereotypical yuppies desperate to get their gifted darlings into AP class. Little kids can handle normal speech just fine, so why use baby talk?
Echinoderm@aussie.zone 1 hour ago
It really depends on the kid and the complexity of the message. Young kids are still learning the intricacies of the language and building a vocabulary. Not talking down to them helps build those skills up. But at the end of the day, if the message is not getting across, it’s the fault of the communicator.
Plus it’s an annoying flex to say “see how amazing my kid is? It’s all because of me!” Some kids just pick up language easier, some kids sleep all the way through the night earlier, some kids toilet train easier, etc. Usually it’s better for parents to quietly take the little victory rather than treat it as a reflection of their amazing parenting skills.
fosho@lemmy.ca 28 minutes ago
regardless of a child’s inherent language skills I would argue that it’s a detriment to baby talk to them. surely the earlier they receive regular communication the sooner they are going to learn it.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 44 minutes ago
Can’t expect nerds to have the social intelligence to understand that.