Well my gorgeous daughter just turned one on saturday wow how fast time goes. Let the fun begin right
My husband and I are a little confused and lost as to what she understands. We are trying to get her to say ta when we go to give her things, but she laughs and then starts to crack it. We arent sure as to whether we are trying too early and being too harsh or does she understand enough that if she doesnt say ta we take it away and she doesnt get it?
Sometimes she says it but mostly not!!!
With the understanding thing is it just a matter of repeating and repeating and eventually they learn? I guess a couple of examples are she gets excited and starts to hit and she grabs and pushes haha wow how scary really, but we are trying to teach her to be gentle.
Other than this all I have to say is I have one cool kid and I am sure I have a future dancer on my hands hmm wonder where she gets that from!!!
I only have one DD so don't have anything to compare her to. We say ta to her when we give her things and generally say thank you mummy, or thank you daddy afterwards because that is what I'd like her to say when she starts talking properly. I don't take things away if she doesn't say ta though. I think that she's a bit too young for that. She understands what ta means and likes to bring us all kinds of random objects and shove them in our faces whilst saying ta, lol. if I say, "ta to Grandma" she will go and give the object to grandma. Not sure if that helps you but that's our experience
oh cool yeah that does help a bit thanks. We do the same we say ta for mummy or ta for daddy and she gives it to us. But its hard to judge whether they are too young or not haha.
Thankyou for your reply though it has helped a bit.
I think they do understand alot of what we tell them and ask them to do, the problem is whether they want to do it, lol. And trying to make them want to do it!
In my experience with DD1 and DD2, the earlier you start with demonstrating correct behaviours the better. I say demonstrate because initially they listen to you and they do understand but don't necessarily copy. But at least you are showng her what she needs to be doing so that when she is old enough to copy consistently and to understand the concept of manners, she knows exactly what is expected of her because that's all she's ever been shown iykwim? My DD1 started to understand a bit more at about 18 months but didn't speak properly or understand the concept of manners until about two. But I still persevered with it. I'm doing the same with DD2 now but she's a fair way off understanding properly yet. You'll know when she's understanding you a bit more. I think when their language develops it's much easier to teach manners. Hope that made sense!
never too young to encourage bubs to talk.. the best way to do that is to talk to THEM! :-) describe everything you are doing as you are doing it, give them opportunities to copy your noises, and also copy their noises etc. with the ta thing, i never make my DD say ta before i give her something. this would frustrate her heaps and she is too little to understand. so basically just offer her the chance to say ta, if she doesnt i say it for her and then give her whatever it is.
What does my 1 year old understand?
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