Speech - NOT a brag thread

[Miss.September]

I get where you're coming from. It's pretty special that DD2 can say so much and so so cute! We find that if we try to tell people that DD can say the things she says, they either blatantly don't believe us, or they think we're bragging (which is a little unfair considering we only respond when asked if she can talk). I remember telling the MCHN how many words she could say, and the woman just looked at me and went "Oh, really". She didn't believe me until DD started to chatter of her own accord.

Our favourite thing we've done to keep DD going and increasing her words- have some favourite books that rhyme (Hairy Maclary, I know a rhino) and encourage her to say the last word to each sentence and once's she can confidently do that, increase the amount of words you leave out for her to say.

[~Trish~]

She sounds like a bright little button . It's amazing how much they learn so quickly!

DD freaks me out, at 12 months she had 20 words and now at 18 months she has more words than I can count. Last month she said to DS1 "Joel, look at that, it's raining!" . My MCHN said she's very advanced and that most 2 year olds don't put that many words together. I was very proud! But I think it's because she's 1. A girl (we were born to talk ) 2. she learns a lot from her big brothers.

DH asked her to put her yoghurt tub in the bin the other day and she said "Alright" and promptly did as told, we cheered for her and she looked at DH and said "High five!" and put her hand out . They're such amazing creatures, I could watch my kids all day in amazement and not do anything else

The only things I do to encourage DD to say new words is to ask her to repeat them after me. My boys do the same with her because they think it's cute! I also read to her, but she's pretty much learning quickly all by her self.

[helle]

how would you discourage speech... out of curiosity?