They’re monologuing internally like Dexter about what an oblivious fool they’re making you look like. They know exactly what they’re fucking doing.
When my youngest was about 3, I told him to behave one day, and he screeched back “I AM being have!”
Not all of them do. I work with autistic kids, and sometimes we have to modify how we teach echoics (repeating what someone else said) because of it.
We may have a kid that we’re trying to teach to ask for help when they need it. So say, for example, we see them unable to open their lunch box. For some kids, we’d go, “Say, ‘help’.” The kid replies, “Help,” and we help them open the box.
But some kids will repeat exactly what we say, which means they end up going, “Say help.” So we have to change the way we make the suggestion. In this case we’d omit the “say” part, and just say “Help.” That way the kid will repeat just the important part, enabling them to communicate more functionally to get their needs met.
Because people learn to understand language much faster than being able to produce it, both in terms of formulation and pronunciation. For babies in particular, they struggle with the fine motor skills required to produce sounds reliably. Babies can learn to produce nonverbal communication faster than vocal language because it’s easier in terms of bodily control.
We taught our babies the sign language for “eat” and that made things a lot easier for everyone.
When did you teach the sign? I’m curious from when on they start being able to sign.
During breastfeeding. When the baby appears hungry, you do the eat gesture and then feed them.
It’s the cutest thing to see a baby angrily signing “eat” at you.
I meant as in, how old the baby was when it started learning (and learnt) that sign, but hahaha, that’s a cute thing indeed!
Once the baby has some awareness of what you’re doing, around 5mo.
Can anyone explain this? Do I need to have seen dexter?
He’s the one cop that always knew Dexter was a psycho, but nobody would listen to him
Intonation. “Say” is used as a prompt to setup the word to mimic and the word to mimic is overemphasized and repeated. We’ve got built in mirror neurons that absorb this shit like a sponge.
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