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Is This Normal?
I fully realize at this point when I ask whether or not a behavior is normal for a 3.5 year old, the answer is usually "YES." That doesn't make it any less annoying.
So, yes my son was in speech therapy, but he graduated out of this and now basically does not shut up. At all. It's like verbal diarrhea all the time. That's not really the problem.
It's summer, there's a new baby, so we've been a lot more lax on the television than we'd like. He really only watches one show incessantly (is that bad?), Curious George on PBS. He'll watch 2 episodes in the morning and then another 2 in the afternoon. I'm fine with that, we'll fight that reduction battle once school starts up again. However, the issue is his speech is now PEPPERED with lines and entire soliloquies from these episodes. We only DVR 5 episodes at a time, so he's watching them probably 3-5 times each--but DAMN. The problem is he will respond in a conversation with one of these lines, sometimes in context , sometimes not. Sometimes out of the blue he will come up to you and say things like, "Tomato juice will get that smell out!" He does this to neighbors and random people on the street and they look at me, "What's wrong with your kid?" Sometimes he can get probably 30-60 seconds of dialogue at a time. At bedtime he will relate the plots of each episode he watched back to me, and does this several times a day.
It seems every leap in learning he's made this summer has come from that damn show. I sit down with him, we look at letters, numbers, telling time, etc. etc. and that's like teflon compared to the facts gleaned on that show (what certain vegetables are, how to make a water lock system, the concept of "trading" blah blah blah). Now if only George went on the potty.
Is this normal?
So, yes my son was in speech therapy, but he graduated out of this and now basically does not shut up. At all. It's like verbal diarrhea all the time. That's not really the problem.
It's summer, there's a new baby, so we've been a lot more lax on the television than we'd like. He really only watches one show incessantly (is that bad?), Curious George on PBS. He'll watch 2 episodes in the morning and then another 2 in the afternoon. I'm fine with that, we'll fight that reduction battle once school starts up again. However, the issue is his speech is now PEPPERED with lines and entire soliloquies from these episodes. We only DVR 5 episodes at a time, so he's watching them probably 3-5 times each--but DAMN. The problem is he will respond in a conversation with one of these lines, sometimes in context , sometimes not. Sometimes out of the blue he will come up to you and say things like, "Tomato juice will get that smell out!" He does this to neighbors and random people on the street and they look at me, "What's wrong with your kid?" Sometimes he can get probably 30-60 seconds of dialogue at a time. At bedtime he will relate the plots of each episode he watched back to me, and does this several times a day.
It seems every leap in learning he's made this summer has come from that damn show. I sit down with him, we look at letters, numbers, telling time, etc. etc. and that's like teflon compared to the facts gleaned on that show (what certain vegetables are, how to make a water lock system, the concept of "trading" blah blah blah). Now if only George went on the potty.
Is this normal?
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Permalink Reply by bap2 on
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Hah, MTTM, you've let them taste it now you're taking them away. Tell them it's their cable TV rumspringa.
The same thing happened to me in 6th grade when my friend brought over a Ren and Stimpy VHS. I felt like Ariel, singing "A Whole New Wooooooooooooooorld." Now I'm all nostalgic for 1980s PBS shows.
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Permalink Reply by Bigkrygowski on -
"Tomato juice will get that smell out!" This just cracks me up. The Achiever does the same thing. He watches Word Girl regularly and now corrects my grammar almost as often as Bunny.
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Permalink Reply by Herasmus B. Dragon on
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I had to laugh out loud just now because I read BK's comment just as Big O was turning on Curious George to watch. She's 9 1/2. So all of you, you may be in for these nuggets of wisdom for quite a while.
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Permalink Reply by G.G. on -
Yep same here. El D can reenact entire scenes from shows he has seen once. Sigh.
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Permalink Reply by Boring User Name on -
As Word World was last week's show, my kid decided to take it literally. He saw a broken downspout on our neighbor's house. So, he used some wooden letters, asked me how to spell pipe, glued them together. But, the drama began when I wouldn't let him go over to the neighbor's house and put the letters on their house.
I had to explain that it only works that way on Word World. There was still much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
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Permalink Reply by Bigkrygowski on
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I think your kid and I would be great friends. We could troll the entire neighborhood.
Daria said:
As Word World was last week's show, my kid decided to take it literally. He saw a broken downspout on our neighbor's house. So, he used some wooden letters, asked me how to spell pipe, glued them together. But, the drama began when I wouldn't let him go over to the neighbor's house and put the letters on their house.
I had to explain that it only works that way on Word World. There was still much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
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Can you guys tag my neighbor who lets his dog crap in our yard with D-BAG?
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Permalink Reply by Boring User Name on
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That's more of a Super Why problem. Let's use the power of words to change the story!
bap2 said:
Can you guys tag my neighbor who lets his dog crap in our yard with D-BAG?
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Permalink Reply by mcglory13 on -
Or if your neighbor is a super villain who also makes sandwiches or has robot dogs drop the poop off, you need Word Girl.
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