Most parents of young children await the so-called "language explosion" with excitement and anticipation. They see an end to the perpetual guessing games of "what does my baby mean with that cry?" or the ever-popular "crap, I know they are saying a word, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what that word is".
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My daughter did not have a language explosion. My daughter had a language thermonuclear detonation. You see, an explosion has a definitive end to the general destruction. A thermonuclear detonation, on the other hand, has the big boom, followed by the lingering radiation that is just as destructive as the initial event.
She learned to talk early (multi-word sentences were coming at 18 months), and has.not.stopped ever since. Every night, from the time I come home until she falls asleep (usually long after she is put in her bed), I am treated to a steady torrent of words, literally. Questions, theories, narration, whatever; if it allows her to continue to fill the
I see silence as something to be enjoyed. She sees it as something to be conquered.
I was trying to figure out why this seemed so familiar, why I have not been driven into some form of semi-comatose state by now. Then it hit me: her mother is the same way when she gets excited. My wife will come home from an evening out, and I will have long since gone to bed, and she will "accidentally" nudge me and begin to narrate her.entire.evening to me. And then she'll want to talk about the ideas she got while driving, or while talking to her girlfriends, or while reading a magazine three weeks ago because you know, since I'm already up, why not have a discussion the length of War And Peace?
The munchkin is a toddler. Toddlers live in a constant state of excitement because everything is shiny and new and fun and interesting. That's why she talks all the time! She gets this non-stop verbiage from her mother.
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At least we're not boring!!!!
Same here, and I come home to 3 females every day. I actually had to negotiate a five minute cease fire that starts when I get home from work, so that the "wall of sound" wouldn't act as negative reinforcement that would subconsciously train me to never come home. Now I am just trained never to come back downstairs.
My daughter and I are both talkers, too. I'm glad I'm giving my husband a son, because maybe when Charlotte and I are out getting our mani/pedis, they can sit in silence, killing aliens in Halo 4.
HA! My husband and I have been joking about enjoying the silence while it lasts because I'm pretty sure that when the language explosion hits our house, the chatter will be deafening.
sounds like every household with females!
You will be SO GLAD that she processes out loud.
My mother never needed to ask me a single question when I was a teen.
Bravo to you figuring it out. :)
I wonder a lot about all that talking! I wonder if they're capable of thinking.... It's like as soon as they realize they're thinking they start spewing out all their thoughts -- formed or unformed!
Man, I can totally relate. My son is a non-stop chatterbox, just like his mother. -Jeremy @ Discovering Dad.
Both of my kids are huge talkers...it's something I have always been very grateful for.
My almost 3-year old son loves to talk too. And now that his 14 month old sister is talking and making a lot of nouze, he is starting to appreciate silence. When we are in the car my daughter is VERY vocal. My son will complain to my husband and I "I don't like it when the Missus makes noise!" We have to explain that she is learning to talk and we have to let her. But we think it is kind of funny because now he knows how we feel sometimes.
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