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From: german@uiucuxc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: When do babies say "What's that"?
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Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 11:05:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  9 11:05:00 1984
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Nf-From: uiucuxc!german    Nov  9 10:05:00 1984


It is possible that he is picking up skills from the older child.  My daughter
(she will be 2 on 11/15) tries very hard to keep up with the 5 and 6 year olds
at daycare.  She understood alot more than she could say for a long time.  I
could ask her to go get her blanket or some other object she was familiar with
almost from the time she could walk at 10.5 months.  We try very hard to listen
whenever she tries to communicate with us hoping to encourage her communication
skills through positive reinforcement when she gets some abstract point across.

				Greg German
				pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!german