Questions for early talkers

[sapphire_chan]

So, if you have a kid who started using full sentences at like 18 months, did you think to ask them/could you ask them:

Why is it necessary to have a piece of cheese for each hand when less than 1/2 of a piece will get eaten? (And don't try to break a single piece in half, that is WRONG!! and will Break a Baby's Heart!!!)

Why twiddling? The other breast is visible, why is there panic that there will be no more milk, E.V.E.R, if a little hand isn't trying to unscrew that nipple?

[nerdymom]

I ask similar questions even though I know I won't get an answer. Just asking makes me feel better.

[physmom]

Hilarious! Please some ask their kid!!!!!

[fancyoats]

i would also like to know why dd insists on a fresh banana every couple of hours, even though she only ate an inch of the last one. i need to make banana bread and smoothies like nobody's business!!

[jilly]

My big one is always, "Why so many messes?" But it is always taken as rhetorical by my kids, even thought they're older.

Um, I did have one of those full-sentence talkers by 18 mos. Unfortunately early talking does not = early rationality. It just makes you think they're rational, so you try to explain / argue / reason with them and they just keep talking about dump trucks.

[loraxc]

I had/have one of those, and I do ask him stuff.

"Why did you do that?"

"BECAUSE I WAAAANT TO!"

"Why do you want the (knife/chainsaw/rattlesnake)?"

"BECAUSE I WAAAAANT IT!"

Illuminating.

[craft_media_hero]

I can so relate to this! My little twiddler was using complete sentences by that age, too. She would probably have either given a long drawn out answer or just stared blankly, depending on her mood.

[sapphire_chan]

Locally, someone with a 4 year old extended nurser did ask. : "Because I'm nursing!"

[almadianna]

My daughter's answer to everything was "because I love to".

"why are you putting the toothbrush in your brother's diaper?"
"because I love to"

"why are you peeing on the dog?"
"because I love to"

[eilonwy]

Originally Posted by loraxc

I had/have one of those, and I do ask him stuff.

"Why did you do that?"

"BECAUSE I WAAAANT TO!"

"Why do you want the (knife/chainsaw/rattlesnake)?"

"BECAUSE I WAAAAANT IT!"

Illuminating.

Bear likes to say "because it is" or "because I did". Bean usually said "because I can". In short, they do those things because they are babies, and that is what babies do.

[sapphire_chan]

Darn.

[PhotoJournMama]

Originally Posted by jilly

Um, I did have one of those full-sentence talkers by 18 mos. Unfortunately early talking does not = early rationality. It just makes you think they're rational, so you try to explain / argue / reason with them and they just keep talking about dump trucks.

Bahaha, this.