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Check out this miniature comedian! Just as young children develop over time, so too does the sophistication of their humor. Infants take particular delight in visual/physical forms of humor (silly faces, misuse of objects), for example. But by two and three years of age, children’s humor becomes increasingly language-based... show more

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Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖vor 3 Jahren

When I was little I held one of those plastic rain bonnets in my hand. The kind that fold up and you can put over your hair. I “snapped” it shut and looked over and my baby sister who was in her crib at the time burst out laughing. My mother and I looked over stunned. Mom said “do it again!” I did and she laughed! I don’t mean baby giggles. I mean an actual laugh. From a little baby. We did it over and over and over. We were all laughing!

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Gráinne Treanorvor 3 Jahren

From a 3-year-old in the back of the car: What does ‘mean’ mean? [he laughed a lot] Me: ‘Mean’ means ‘mean’ [he laughed more and asked the same question several times, laughing each time at the answer]

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Helen (she / her) 🖤💛❤️ Always Was Always Will Bevor 3 Jahren

& Motthew is a really good name for a pet moth ❤️

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MomShiebvor 3 Jahren

When my first child was 2, I was getting her ready to go out. I said, "OK, time to boogie." And she blew her nose on me. Then she burst out laughing and said, "Boogie!" Good one, huh?

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Sarah Ziman/BardyMum - 'Brain' out now!vor 3 Jahren

He’s adorable! And I love his punning, boy after my own heart. I remember trying on a red coat when out shopping with my son when he was around 2 (early talker) and he said ‘oh you’re all red Mummy…like a book’.

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CFOLSvor 3 Jahren

Reminds me of my kid. He was abt 2 yo & we were in the ER. I gave him my I-pod to keep him entertained (it was a very long wait). He dropped it and started referring to it as the I-drop

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Christine Heaphyvor 3 Jahren

Love the belly laugh! My toddler son named his hermit crab “Shellvis.” As in Shell + Elvis! We always loved that name, and he thought he was quite clever, too’

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Megan Moganvor 3 Jahren

Our preschooler was playing with a toy boat, acting out a dialogue among passengers and I overheard, “Don’t be afraid. You’re on a relationSHIP.”

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Mel Cvor 3 Jahren

My grandkids are 2 and 4, both boys, and we have a lot of these! They largely involve creative language and puns about rear-ends and what happens there, so I’ll spare you 😜

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Peacock Queenvor 3 Jahren

His mother wasn’t to thrilled…….but a Titi’s job is to teach fun. Lol

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Dan Wuori

158,289 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

Let’s talk about language-rich environments. One of the determining factors in both the speed at which your child develops language and the size of his/her early vocabulary is exposure to (direct & interactive) caregiver speech. Even before your baby is using language conventionally, he/she is soaking up all of yours. (And I do mean ALL… keep it G-rated.) One way to support your baby’s language/brain development is to narrate your life together. (Engage your child by talking about the steps you’re taking as you fold the laundry, for example. Or describe what you’ve received as you sort through the mail.) This grandpa gets a gold star here - not only narrating, but turning the simple act of rolling a ball back and forth into a thrilling TV sports play-by-play that includes the baby’s name and actions over and over. What a lucky little guy to be so immersed in language. He’ll be better off for it… just you wait and see! What strategies have you used to ensure your child is surrounded by interactive talk? 🎥 Kesler.Brian IG

Let’s talk about language-rich environments. One of the determining factors in both the speed at which your child develops language and the size of his/her early vocabulary is exposure to (direct & interactive) caregiver speech. Even before your baby is using language conventionally, he/she is soaking up all of yours. (And I do mean ALL… keep it G-rated.) One way to support your baby’s language/brain development is to narrate your life together. (Engage your child by talking about the steps you’re taking as you fold the laundry, for example. Or describe what you’ve received as you sort through the mail.) This grandpa gets a gold star here - not only narrating, but turning the simple act of rolling a ball back and forth into a thrilling TV sports play-by-play that includes the baby’s name and actions over and over. What a lucky little guy to be so immersed in language. He’ll be better off for it… just you wait and see! What strategies have you used to ensure your child is surrounded by interactive talk? 🎥 Kesler.Brian IG

Dan Wuori

1,308,283 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren

Mom’s little apprentice.👩🏻‍🍼 As children grow and learn, their play becomes increasingly sophisticated. I’ve written often about how toddlers begin their imaginary play close to home, emulating the important adults in their lives. But, in time, their play becomes less tethered to their day-to-day reality. One key to this transition is the emergence of “symbolic play” - which is just what it sounds like. Beginning around 18-months of age, children begin using one object to represent (or symbolize) another. A wooden block might become a car. A banana could become a telephone. And a shoe can become a baby! I’ve shared a lot of videos on this platform, but few that I’ve loved more than this one - which offers a fantastic snapshot of this transition in action. Occupying herself during a long church service, our hero (age: 2 years, 8 months) engages in some imaginary play - silently emulating the caregiving of her parents, but using a shoe to represent a baby of her own. Notice how attentive and tender she is. It’s just beautiful. In time her play will begin shifting toward more and more fantasy. But for now, that’s one well-attended “baby.” This little mother-in-training was shared to IG by edlainevaunacorrea.

Mom’s little apprentice.👩🏻‍🍼 As children grow and learn, their play becomes increasingly sophisticated. I’ve written often about how toddlers begin their imaginary play close to home, emulating the important adults in their lives. But, in time, their play becomes less tethered to their day-to-day reality. One key to this transition is the emergence of “symbolic play” - which is just what it sounds like. Beginning around 18-months of age, children begin using one object to represent (or symbolize) another. A wooden block might become a car. A banana could become a telephone. And a shoe can become a baby! I’ve shared a lot of videos on this platform, but few that I’ve loved more than this one - which offers a fantastic snapshot of this transition in action. Occupying herself during a long church service, our hero (age: 2 years, 8 months) engages in some imaginary play - silently emulating the caregiving of her parents, but using a shoe to represent a baby of her own. Notice how attentive and tender she is. It’s just beautiful. In time her play will begin shifting toward more and more fantasy. But for now, that’s one well-attended “baby.” This little mother-in-training was shared to IG by edlainevaunacorrea.

Dan Wuori

202,895 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

Here’s some A+ parental behavior. 🏅 What you’re seeing is an example of sensory play. As babies grow, one of the most important things you can do as a parent is provide safe and varied opportunities for your baby to use their senses (sight, sound, taste, touch and smell) to explore the world. Through a multitude of experiences, children make new neural connections in the brain. Think of how many textures alone there are to experience: soft, hard, fuzzy, smooth, rough, prickly…the list goes on and on. By exposing your child to a variety of sensory experiences, you are not only helping them to understand the world around them - but helping them to create deep understandings and rich vocabulary. I just love the way this dad playfully allows his son to experience rain for the first time. To feel the raindrops, to experience their wetness, to hear their impact on the pavement. His approach makes this new experience safe and fun. And what does baby want as a result? More rain! Outstanding 🧠 building on display in this video shared on IG by ReadersDigest.

Here’s some A+ parental behavior. 🏅 What you’re seeing is an example of sensory play. As babies grow, one of the most important things you can do as a parent is provide safe and varied opportunities for your baby to use their senses (sight, sound, taste, touch and smell) to explore the world. Through a multitude of experiences, children make new neural connections in the brain. Think of how many textures alone there are to experience: soft, hard, fuzzy, smooth, rough, prickly…the list goes on and on. By exposing your child to a variety of sensory experiences, you are not only helping them to understand the world around them - but helping them to create deep understandings and rich vocabulary. I just love the way this dad playfully allows his son to experience rain for the first time. To feel the raindrops, to experience their wetness, to hear their impact on the pavement. His approach makes this new experience safe and fun. And what does baby want as a result? More rain! Outstanding 🧠 building on display in this video shared on IG by ReadersDigest.

Dan Wuori

1,245,019 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren

How does language begin? There’s a lot of important growth and development that occurs during the 45 month window from prenatal to age three. But among infancy’s greatest accomplishments is language acquisition. So over the coming week I’m going to dedicate this space to a series of posts on the sequential growth of language, which you may be surprised to learn begins even before birth. As your baby’s hearing activates between 18-20 weeks of gestation, they begin hearing their first sounds: Mom’s heartbeat, digestive rumblings, and voice. As you might imagine, sound isn’t crystal clear in the amniotic sac. (It’s not a perfect comparison, but consider how your own hearing changes under water in a swimming pool. You can still hear, but the sounds are muffled and significantly degraded.) For this and other reasons, your baby isn’t absorbing specific vocabulary at this point, but there’s little question that they are beginning to familiarize themselves with not only the tones/sound of their mother’s voice, but the distinct rhythms and patterns of her native language. We’re still only beginning to understand prenatal learning, but research demonstrates that in the minutes and hours immediately after birth, newborns already recognize their mother’s voice and can distinguish (and prefer) their own native language. That’s right: at birth babies’ brains have already begun organizing themselves around their mothers’ native languages. Pretty remarkable, no? It’s the first step in a miraculous process by which young children acquire complex linguistic ability over a period of just months. As for this precious little one, just minutes old, watch how he calms from a cry to an instant silence when exposed to the clear and familiar sound of his mother’s voice. Tomorrow we’ll look at the earliest forms of vocalization. This beautiful video was shared to YT by @lashaviouskirk9862.

How does language begin? There’s a lot of important growth and development that occurs during the 45 month window from prenatal to age three. But among infancy’s greatest accomplishments is language acquisition. So over the coming week I’m going to dedicate this space to a series of posts on the sequential growth of language, which you may be surprised to learn begins even before birth. As your baby’s hearing activates between 18-20 weeks of gestation, they begin hearing their first sounds: Mom’s heartbeat, digestive rumblings, and voice. As you might imagine, sound isn’t crystal clear in the amniotic sac. (It’s not a perfect comparison, but consider how your own hearing changes under water in a swimming pool. You can still hear, but the sounds are muffled and significantly degraded.) For this and other reasons, your baby isn’t absorbing specific vocabulary at this point, but there’s little question that they are beginning to familiarize themselves with not only the tones/sound of their mother’s voice, but the distinct rhythms and patterns of her native language. We’re still only beginning to understand prenatal learning, but research demonstrates that in the minutes and hours immediately after birth, newborns already recognize their mother’s voice and can distinguish (and prefer) their own native language. That’s right: at birth babies’ brains have already begun organizing themselves around their mothers’ native languages. Pretty remarkable, no? It’s the first step in a miraculous process by which young children acquire complex linguistic ability over a period of just months. As for this precious little one, just minutes old, watch how he calms from a cry to an instant silence when exposed to the clear and familiar sound of his mother’s voice. Tomorrow we’ll look at the earliest forms of vocalization. This beautiful video was shared to YT by @lashaviouskirk9862.

Dan Wuori

122,020 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

Does your little one want to hear the same book over and over and over again? The repetition can be a little maddening for us as parents, but for children it’s actually very beneficial. Favorite books are not only familiar and comforting, but support vocabulary growth and - importantly - your child’s own participation in the reading experience. I just love this video of little Theo and his mom as they read Eric Carle’s Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too? Not only can you tell it’s a book they’ve read together many times, but the familiar, repetitive pattern of the text itself allows Theo to play a role in the reading. Watch as he provides an enthusiastic “YES!” at the beginning of each page. (Note too what a good job he does at matching his “yes” response to the appropriate point in the text itself. It’s the first thing said after each page is turned.) As for vocabulary growth, repeated exposure to new words helps children to internalize vocabulary more rapidly with one study suggesting that children are more likely to incorporate new vocabulary from a book read three times than from three different books read one time apiece. This fantastic little reader was shared to IG by theoriginal_captain.

Does your little one want to hear the same book over and over and over again? The repetition can be a little maddening for us as parents, but for children it’s actually very beneficial. Favorite books are not only familiar and comforting, but support vocabulary growth and - importantly - your child’s own participation in the reading experience. I just love this video of little Theo and his mom as they read Eric Carle’s Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too? Not only can you tell it’s a book they’ve read together many times, but the familiar, repetitive pattern of the text itself allows Theo to play a role in the reading. Watch as he provides an enthusiastic “YES!” at the beginning of each page. (Note too what a good job he does at matching his “yes” response to the appropriate point in the text itself. It’s the first thing said after each page is turned.) As for vocabulary growth, repeated exposure to new words helps children to internalize vocabulary more rapidly with one study suggesting that children are more likely to incorporate new vocabulary from a book read three times than from three different books read one time apiece. This fantastic little reader was shared to IG by theoriginal_captain.

Dan Wuori

30,162 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

“That’s not nice. That’s not good…” Let’s talk about the role of language in shaping our thinking. We often think of language development in terms of a child’s ability to communicate with others. But it also plays a transformative role in cognition, helping us to communicate with ourselves and regulate our emotions. In time, language shapes not only what we know and say, but how we think and feel. During the years of early childhood, the acquisition of language revolutionizes young children’s approach to the world. They go from being unable to express their needs and feelings (a frustration that leads to things like crying to biting), to using language to process, communicate and regulate their behavior/emotions. And what a lovely example we have here. Marleigh’s dog Zoey has ripped apart (“eaten”) her stuffed Mickey Mouse toy. Watch how she (with some adult support) uses language to process her frustration and confront the dog. The developing 🧠 at work. Have you seen your child use language to help regulate their feelings (of frustration or otherwise)? 🎥 theyeetbaby IG (which is a great follow)

“That’s not nice. That’s not good…” Let’s talk about the role of language in shaping our thinking. We often think of language development in terms of a child’s ability to communicate with others. But it also plays a transformative role in cognition, helping us to communicate with ourselves and regulate our emotions. In time, language shapes not only what we know and say, but how we think and feel. During the years of early childhood, the acquisition of language revolutionizes young children’s approach to the world. They go from being unable to express their needs and feelings (a frustration that leads to things like crying to biting), to using language to process, communicate and regulate their behavior/emotions. And what a lovely example we have here. Marleigh’s dog Zoey has ripped apart (“eaten”) her stuffed Mickey Mouse toy. Watch how she (with some adult support) uses language to process her frustration and confront the dog. The developing 🧠 at work. Have you seen your child use language to help regulate their feelings (of frustration or otherwise)? 🎥 theyeetbaby IG (which is a great follow)

Dan Wuori

251,280 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren