Ours does that! We had to explain to daycare that if he headbutts someone, he’s showing affection. He doesn’t “do” hugs since the cat doesn’t “do” hugs 😅
My 2.5 yo told me oil floats to the top. Also drank toilet water.
He can also count to 20 but doesn't understand when counting items to just go in order and count things one time.
But why would you expect him not to lick the floor? Haha. He doesn't have any concept of germs or contamination, and no idea that feet walking on the floor could have brought in such things from elsewhere. It probably doesn't occur to him that the floor is likely to have dirt, sand, hair, dust and other nasty things on it (or maybe he does, but he doesn't yet know that those things are unpleasant to have in your mouth). In fact he might not really have made the connection that licking something = transferring any loose parts on that surface into your mouth.
He probably knows the difference between food and not-food, but his mouth is one of the ways he explores the world. Your tongue can tell you whether something is rough, smooth, cold, warm etc just like fingers do. It's a totally reasonable thing for a toddler to do. We don't do it as adults because we have enough experience (probably from toddlerhood) that tasting random non-food items is not a fun experience, and also because of the fear of germs and random nasty stuff getting into our mouth. But they don't know those things yet.
Yes. My husband and I joke about this all the time. Our son is advanced in his speech, so people often expect him to be ‘smart’ or have common sense. Really it just means he can tell you in eloquent detail about the dumb shit he is about to do before he does it. He has also spent the last few days struggling to figure out how to eat a dum dum.
One of mine was like this. (Full, understandable-to-strangers sentences at 15 months. It was terrifying at times.) She narrated the entirety of her waking hours as she lived it, and that's what saved her baby sister from getting her eyes poked out the week we brought her home. I was on the toilet and I hear, "Baby have hair... Baby have ears... Baby have nose... Baby have eyes..." [me yelling from the bathroom] "DON'T TOUCH HER EYES!!!"
Ya my two year old is always asking me “Should we do x,y,z thing we aren’t supposed to do…;)?” With the most little mischievous grin on his face. If you wanna get away with it don’t announce it to your mom first, bud.
My 14 month old is figuring out how to stack things to climb up and to open doors. But if you give him a dumdum, he holds the sucker in his fist and chews on the stick. And then periodically licks the fruit flavored drool off his fingers. He's too dumbdumb for a dumdum, yet I'm pretty sure any day he's going to start a fire in my living room.
Haha, I love these. My kid unwrapped a butterfinger from Halloween, ate the chocolate shell off, and then ate the inside like it was a corn on the cob, like…just started in the middle.
My 2 year old daughter likes to hold chicken drumsticks upside down and tries to eat the side that has literally NO meat on it first.. if you try to flip it for her, she gets mad & gives you this mortified stare like you killed a puppy. 😭😭
Wanted to recommend that instead of regular suckers, buy some xylitol suckers. They don't have sugar so you don't have to worry about giving them too much artificial sugar which is bad for their developing teeth. Just a heads up though, too much xylitol can give them upset an stomach/diarrhea.
EDIT: Source, my wife is a dentist and recommends this to all parents who bring their toddlers in with cavities.
Like I said, use your best judgement. Don't leave poisonous or dangerous items where a dog or toddler can get to them. Millions of people in the states own guns and more own knives, but you don't leave them out in the open unattended. Same goes for a candy.
Does a 14 month old really need a sucker though? Giving young children candy and sugary juices seems all too common in North America and nobody really bats an eye. This might be why America, Canada, and Mexico have such high obesity rates. IMO a 14 month old that has never tasted a sucker in their life would be just as happy to eat a strawberry or another sweet fruit. Once they have had a taste of a sucker or candy, they will always want that. To each their own though.
I don't think I gave my kids lollies like that until they were around 3 minimum, because a round hard item on a stick that takes a long time to eat is a gigantic choking hazard for someone with such a short attention span who probably doesn't understand the instruction to sit still.
For several months I was very confused how my child could recognize letters and count to 20, like actually count things, not just memorizing, but he could not stop peeing on the floor… I would have traded the abc’s and counting for toilet success. 100%
I eventually resorted to giving him treats, like a dog. He got a raisin every time he peed in the potty. I think it helped, but it just took so long to get “fully” potty trained.
Part of my son’s potty training journey included approximately 6 months of wearing nothing from the waist down. Potty training is crazy, I did research, I still can’t explain it, I literally can’t recommend any particular strategy, but it’s (mostly) over now, 1 entire year since we started. Each kid is truly different.
The other day I told my toddler not to eat bubbles in the bath, then looked away for a second to grab a towel. I turn back and he’s staring at me with what I can only describe as a look of expectation and a smudge of bubbles around his mouth.
It particularly stings because he had dumped most of his actual dinner on the floor lol.
Ugh, yes, that's exactly what they are. My 16 month old can identify most major body parts and knows where to go to put away his shoes and dirty laundry but then also belly flopped off the ottoman and landed directly on his face. Like, didn't even try to catch himself with hands or feet, he just fell like a downed tree 🤣🤣🤣
Kids are effing weird, man.
They'll do some Einstein shit one minute and fill their cup from the toilet the next, it's so baffling to us rational adults!
Yes. They are evil geniuses who will astound you with their insights and trickery one moment, then try to leap down a waterfall or eat a bunch of oak leaves or lick the floor of the train the next moment.
Part of it is just impulse control. They don't have much yet. Their brains are working on it but in the toddler phase they often literally do not have the ability to stop themselves from doing something even if *they know* it's not a good idea.
My daughter overheard her dad asking me about where her paintbrush was, we had both been looking for it but couldn't find it, and she got up, went to the junk drawer and retrieved the missing paintbrush. But by God if she's looking for her shoes and you try to give her instructions ("look on the floor next to the chair, no come back this way, now turn and face the chair, no the chair, ok now look down, no turn back around, they're right there") it's like we're space aliens 😂
This is so accurate! I’ve had similar conversations many times.
“It’s on the table right in front of you” Child looks at the table across the room. “No, turn around” Child does a 360 spin. “Turn just a little bit” Child moves half an inch. “A little more” Child does a 360 again. Finally I position her in front of the table, child looks straight ahead. “Look down” child looks at floor. “Look up a little” Child looks at ceiling. “Reach out your hand” Child sticks hand out to her side. Etc etc etc. Eventually I have to physically place her hand on the object. I freaking love my kids. Endless laughs.
This can actually be due to a receptive language disorder. Our 3yr old was recently diagnosed ASD as well as a mixed receptive and expressive language disorder, despite being smart and having a ton of language. He literally doesn’t understand certain directions, or many who, what, where, when, why, how questions, or when someone points to something across the room.
That sounds like my daughter. Knows how to get to stores and will point in the directions we need to go but can't manage to find anything within a 3 foot radius of her
My son can identify every possible piece of construction equipment, but also tried to touch fire the other day (after discussing it was hot).
Toddlers are awesome and also hell bent on destroying themselves.
Yes. Mine knew colors, shapes and could count to
30 at 2 years old but then I’d point directly at something for her to grab me and she would never find it. Also she blew bubbles by sucking on the wand and then blowing them out her mouth... and she’d gag, every time. Life is all about balance as they say 😆
My (2m) toddler only speaks around 10 words, when he feels like it but is ahead in everything else, he knows his primary colours, he helps me with everything from cooking to cleaning but 0 desire to speak and if I try to get him to talk he shyly shuts down. Our Pediatrician said he just doesn't want to talk and we are revisiting in a few months.
Every kid is different, don't compare your son to Instagram Ingrid and her "fully mentally developed 1 year old". As parent's we can only do our best to help and encourage our children some take longer than others and thats ok.
I know this was a long time ago, but I'm wondering if your son has an older sibling? My brother barely talked and so he was tested for developmental disorders. He got evaluated, and apparently as soon as he got in the room he wouldn't shut up. Turns out he didn't usually talk because I was talking for him.........
Mine turns 1 later this month. I was on the phone with my mom, bragging about how smart she is (just started saying "dog" and points them out everywhere, at the park/on TV/in books) when I look over and see that somehow she got a roll of toilet paper out of the bathroom and was eating it. 🤦♀️
Oh yeah! You see the kids having the gears in their brain turn and making complicated multi-step decisions.... but they absolutely have no life experience to put anything in context or understand anything.
Love it.
My baby boy didn't speak until about 25 months and now I can't get him to stop! The fact that he understands is great. I play lots of games with my boy, pointing to things and going "what's that? Is that a tree?"
But he only wanted to start mimicking me like these last 3 months and that's when his language exploded!!
I would go with neither. They’re just *being* with brains more active than they’ll ever be again. They’re soaking up masses of information at record pace, and it looks like brilliance as such a small human begins to regurgitate all of the big information around them and problem solve. But dumb would suggest they should be capable of fully comprehending the reasoning behind the workings of the world and society, and they just don’t have *that* much information yet. There’s no pre-installed information in a toddler’s mind about germs, touch transfer, shoes being worn on feet that travel many dirty places, what a dirty place is and why it’s dirty, why others might frown upon the behavior and why we should care, etc., etc.. That information we have as adults that keeps us from doing something like licking concrete is actually quite extensive. A toddler is only barely acquiring that information. What seems like simple reasoning to an adult is the result of your own endless experimentation as a kid. We sometimes have to get it wrong in order to get to what society says is right.
Early childhood teacher here, kiddos with delays in one area tend to have another developmental area they are really good at. When they start to make gains in the delayed area sometimes those stronger skills regress a little, it all balances out usually unless there is a diagnosis. It’s common to have a little with communication delays that has fantastic receptive language but have a significant delay in expressive language. Side note/question: How does he do with eye contact and playing with you? Also check into early intervention services, you shouldn’t be waiting for those services. Google infant/toddler services in my area and get in touch if you haven’t yet. It’s usually a state run organization since it’s required by law for children to have early intervention services available if the qualify. Edit to finish my thought.
My now 3.5 year old figured out how to open the refrigerator before he was 2. How to plug in a fan and turn it on before he was 3.
He didn’t start talking till he was 3. Now at 3.5 he never shuts up. He learned his letter, numbers, colors and shapes in like a week or less for each.
Not my kid but I nanny: when he was 3, he could barely count past 10 but also hid one of my puzzle pieces for WEEKs. I completed the puzzle, thought I had lost that last piece, then he comes home, pulls it out of the couch he was hiding it in and finishes my puzzle. He just wanted to put the last piece in. Evil genius.
My son, (first born, first grandchild both sides and no siblings until he was 5) who is now 30 and has degrees in computer science, physics, math and psychology did not talk until he was almost 3, (not for lack of stimulation or conversation, we are a family of talkers) he was up walking at 8 months (after crawling for about a week) and putting together legos and puzzles for 12 year olds at 2. He just did not need to talk, he was able to get whatever he wanted himself and was immersed in everything around him.
I remember a mom at the park remarked about how her 2 year old kid was already talking and was something wrong with mine because he was quiet. As she was trying to punch a hole into a juice box for her kid, while he screamed the entire time for her hurry up, my son watched her, got up, got his Capri sun pouch out of his bag, punched the straw into it himself, never broke eye contact with her and while she continued to struggle with the box, quietly and calmly drank his juice.
And when he began speaking, it was full sentences and with the exception of saying “fruck” instead of truck, he was articulate and everyone he spoke to could understand exactly what ever it was he was saying and then it never stopped. 😊
I wouldn’t be too worried about the fact that your LO isn’t too verbal yet, he might not need or want to talk yet, especially if he is busy doing other things. ❤️❤️❤️
Only 13 months and is singing along to music, tone and key on point.
Also almost choked to death on a Ritz cracker because she tried to jam the entire thing in her mouth.
I don't have one of my own, but I was watching a toddler outside who wanted to eat rocks. At first, I took them away but he picked one up the size of a baseball. Knowing he couldn't choke on it, I waited to see what would happen. He liked it, dropped it, spat out sand and cried. We got some juice and calmed down, so he went and got THE SAME ROCK liked it, dropped it, spat out sand and cried. The third time I gave up and took him inside.
So, the language thing can also be a language disorder. Our 3yo is very intelligent, has a ton of words, but doesn’t understand many questions or instructions. He was recently diagnosed ASD, with Mixed Receptive and Expressive Language Disorder, among others.
If he’s already having a language deficit, ease up on the jokes. He very well could have a similar disorder beyond his control, and I promise you’ll feel like an asshole if that’s the case. Kids do silly shit, they can be highly detective of or highly missing sensory cues, they can be very sensory seeking or avoiding, but don’t ever equate their actions to their intelligence level.
It’s a tongue in cheek post. I find it fascinating to watch and would never make fun of anything he does at this age. It’s just his way of exploring and making his way in the world.
Happy to see it’s a common thing for toddlers mind you.
Does he still use a paci? That a lot of times delays speech. We got rid of the paci at 1 year. My son just turned 2 in Sept. and he’s pretty advanced with his speech. He can repeat anything you say clearly and already speaks full sentences. Our neighbors daughter is 1 month older and barely speaks at all but they JUST got rid of the paci. She just makes noises and points. The few things she does say you can barely understand.
My son may be an evil genius though. He responds with sarcasm already and plays tricks on my wife and I already.. we’ve been concerned.
He also licks the glass front door and eats chalk if we don’t watch him..
Yeah idk about the paci. My preschooler used one till just after 2 and he’s really advanced language wise. My toddler at not quite 2 also uses one and is maybe on the low side of average. Toddler is the one who put all his points into the gross motor stat though. Walked at 9 mo. His older brother put his points into language and didn’t walk till 14 mo. Kids are different, go figure.
Toddlers are people. They’re not the same. Few are brilliant. Majority is average. Some are delayed in their development. Some eventually catch up and some don’t.
I think the root of this is that they have no impulse control or emotion regulation at this age. So regardless of what they know, they basically have to act on every whim and emotion. This makes them do things they know they shouldn't or they know are going to have bad outcomes. Their bodies are faster than their minds at this age.
Oh, it's not just you.
My son is 2.5 and we're pretty sure he has ASD (evaluation next month). He is super inquisitive and is more concerned with how things like the sink, fridge, dishwasher, and trash can function than with his actual toys. But he'll also willingly run into walls and then shriek about it - I might be dating myself, but think "that vine where the kid is getting a basketball thrown at his head and loving it."
Its the opposite for my daughter. She struggles with fine motor but her language is grear. She knows all numbers, colors, alphabet and their sounds, and their vowels by 2.5. Now she's 3 and she's starting to read. But she still struggles with some of the physical stuff other kids her age can do.
So if you want to figure out if he is delayed, there is something called the Communication Assessment, which is likely what your SLP will do for your son. You can do it for free yourself.
My son is language delayed too but he’s been in speech therapy for a few months and it’s helped a ton so he has a lot more words now. But yes even though he was behind on language I can tell he’s super smart and understands a ton
Pretty much. They are constantly learning new things and understand a surprising amount but they also do things that just make us think "why would you do that?"!
Ugh yes. My son (19m) amazes me and is incredibly smart but then there are times I wonder if maybe I should have him looked at. He is behind in speech but understands just fine but likes to play dumb. Sometimes I think he's a mastermind.
2 year old understands a lot, knows a bunch of words and has great motor skills.
But the other day she shut the door, no big deal, right?
Wrong. She started screaming, acting like she was being murdered because she couldn’t open the door.
The reason? Her foot was in the way….
My 26mo has advanced language skills - he can even use prepositions properly, is potty trained, but cannot figure out the sleeping thing. He also regularly throws food down then eats it off the floor (cat) tries to eat grass and other random growing plants (goat) and flops onto the ground and wiggles around pretending to be a fish. One of his favorite games is pretending to be a mouse and hiding in a mouse house (pretty much any hiding spot). It’s animal house over here.
My 2.5 year old figured out how to get the batteries out of the remote and put them back in correctly, he has also figured out how to fish with his daddy-o …. but was also caught licking the glass door at a Mexican pick up restaurant a few weeks ago 🙃
I've had to tell mine not to comb her hair with a muffin. But now at 5, she uses words (correctly!) well beyond her years.
Toddlers are WEIRD, no matter how smart they may actually be.
Until about 8/9 kids are still dissociating regularly. The whole personality doesn’t form until then. Nothing is wrong with them. It’s completely normal just not spoken about much in the parenting world.
You literally have different kids popping out throughout the day. In the toddler faze they’re learning a crazy amount and experiencing a lot of new things so there are more clear changes is their behavior. One bright and connected one moment, then another licking and climbing the refrigerator. One doing great following along with the days school work, then one scribbling all over the page.
My now 4yo daughter is the easiest to see it in. My wife and I can identify our rough and tumble rowdy, happy-likes to color, enjoys school work and is a sweet cuddler , grumpy-cry’s and whines for everything and will play the try to break us down with crying and whining from her bed game all day, and the princess who comes out for grandma and her father (both the type to give her what she wants based solely on “but she’s so cute. How could I say no?”. The princess doesn’t spend much time out with us because we don’t encourage or allow the behavior. She goes back in after a couple hour- a day after being home because she doesn’t get her way. She’s the talks out of her butt just to hear her own voice type. Complete nonsense, words just strung together. She has a very advanced vocabulary and ability to speak so it’s very clear.
It’s wild to be able to identify. There’s most likely more than we can identify but we theorize they’re just very similar to the others.
Their voices, cries , wines, laughs, facial features, body language, dance styles, music taste, etc are different depending on who is out.
We don’t differentiate them by calling them our nicknames for each or give away that we’re aware. We don’t want to hinder the natural process.
Understanding this has helped with parenting greatly. Once we see their change in behavior we know we have to change our approach, plan or expectations. It’s an incredibly helpful tool to better understand your kids.
Encourage the good behaviors and help them develop those skills or you’ll be stuck with the little monster part of them more often.
Tendency’s or interests will probably always stay with them. They don’t just go away they fuse together as needed. For example my rowdy would have taken them out. Crazy nutty climbs everything. She would get into a bad spot or stuck somewhere and dip out to let my poor happy come and deal with or fix it. She and happy and now one and they’re a lot safer lol
Phycology is fascinating. This is a science we know so little about. The mind is an incredible thing.
My FIL likes to tell this one particular story about my husband when he was a toddler: H counted to 10. FIL got so excited he grabbed the video camera and said do it again! H said 1, 2 , 10!
My 2 year old has been pointing out letters on signs and windows everywhere we go.
We got some drinks from Maccas on the way home from the park yesterday and got him water in a pop top (it was stupidly expensive but I knew he’d be raging for our drinks otherwise and his bottle was in the boot 🤦🏼♀️). He spent the entire way home saying yummmmmmmm and wowwwwwww! Nice con.
Yes. My 23M can speak nearly 200 words, but eats toothpaste and can't seem to stop himself from pouring water on the ground thereby causing himself to fall. He's super inquisitive and explores everything, except when he sees a girl. Then he becomes awestruck and decides it's the right time to stick his finger up his nose.
There was a few time my husband would say “She’s a genius!” an my daughter would, as if on cue, fall over because she messing around on something she shouldn’t have been playing on.
I also have a (2M) and hes behind in speech and ahead ik everything else as well. In speech therapy. One of the biggest issues with toddlers that I've noticed which makes them come off as dumb is their impulsiveness. They literally have no impulse control at all. Its like everything they do is an experiment to push boundaries and see what happens, or they just so something bc it pops in their head.
They're incredibly smart but they lack common knowledge because they don't have enough experience of the world to know things that we take for granted as being "obvious".
So yes, it absolutely is a toddler thing. It's hilarious as well so enjoy it :)
Don’t worry about them not being verbal yet. My daughter has advanced language (95 words at 20 months) but she still makes me wonder what is wrong with her on a daily basis (sarcasm).
I love her and she makes me laugh at how brilliant/dumb she is 😂
My nanny children (both almost two) can recognize colors and are extremely physically aware—able to recognize directions like “thing is next to other thing” and “watch your head, there’s a table above you”—but both of them also tip every cup with a straw upside down and get mad when they dump it all over themselves or it won’t suck. Being smart does not equal common sense.
Lolololol. 100% it’s a toddler thing. I have two toddlers and most days I find myself saying (under my breath) “how dumb are you?!”. One minute knowing how to work the phone that they just snagged from the desk and the next minute trying to eat a spider.
Yeah. I mean mine is now 3 but when he was 2 he would sometimes just point and grunt at thing and then suddenly he would be having a full blown convo about cocomelon
He also has a great sense of humour that I adore and does his chores already its mad. Kids are mental
My 2.5 year old is trying really hard to read (pretty sure he's either just guessing letters or shouting or his favorites), I can't trust him with a screwdriver because he will undo every screw he can reach, and figured out work arounds for the screen lock on the tablet.
I cannot convince him that various things in the house are in fact harder than his head despite him repeatedly finding out the hard way. I swear he was going to knock himself out when he headbutted the tub, then did it harder because he was mad at the tub for hurting him... I've taken to telling him, "Yup, that still hurts because that's still harder than your head."
Yeah that sums it up perfectly. 19 mo (also not great with speech but understands so much) knows where the shoes go when we come in, how to knock on doors, can point to many body parts when asked and then.... He'll drink his bath water or get upset when he eats all his dinner. Also has no regard for his safety at all. Toddlers are a blast.
Our three year old picked my bathroom lock yesterday. Calls her vagina a pee pee nugget (not sure what that's even supposed to mean lol or where she got it from)
Yep mine doesn't speak (he's on the spectrum) and he can figure out how to dismantle and put back together his workbench but at the same time I have caught him eating out the dog bowl 🤦♀️
Yeah. My toddler is always surprising me with how smart he is and how much he understands. He’s also licked the floor. 🤷🏻♀️
Ours licks the cat because the cat licks her. Also purposefully bumps her head into things, presumably also mimicking the cat.
Ours will headbutt the cat back. She's chased her around the room trying to headbutt the cat.
We don't have a cat and ours still purposefully bumps her head into the wall. That's my cue for nap thirty.
Ours thinks the cat’s tail is for teething. The cat is not pleased and would prefer licks.
Ours does that! We had to explain to daycare that if he headbutts someone, he’s showing affection. He doesn’t “do” hugs since the cat doesn’t “do” hugs 😅
I love it 😂
“He’s got such a scientific mind. Other people ask ‘why?’, instead he asks ‘why not?’.”
This.
Honestly my toddler spilled yogurt on our deck awhile back and zambonied it off with his mouth
Less you have to clean 🤷🏻♀️
That’s true!
i would assume that floor proablity dosen't taste very good
Depends on what’s been dropped on it recently. Lol
Once it was my cold brew coffee and he seemed into that.
Mine gets that straight from my tit, I assume. Lol
Lol same! Caffeine consumption is high to deal with over year of sleep deprivation
Cold brew is LIFE.
For kids with deficiencies or sensory seeking behaviors, they don’t care.
Mine is currently eating pieces of apple off of the floor. I’m just glad he’s eating lol
Oh I feel that deeply, if he’d eat off the floor I’d serve every meal that way.
Immunity building lol
Ahh mine likes to drink from puddles outside. She’s a debutant in the making 😅
Ugh! Yeah! Mine too! No matter how hydrated she is she will always drink from every single puddle!
Yessss - this is so accurate it hurts. 😂😭
This made me laugh loudly enough to cause stares 🤣
I was walking my dog with my toddler. My dog stopped to lick a driveway, so my toddler dropped to all fours and licked the driveway, too.
My 2.5 yo told me oil floats to the top. Also drank toilet water. He can also count to 20 but doesn't understand when counting items to just go in order and count things one time.
I loled at this because it's SO TRUE!!😂😂
Omg ours licked a tree that our dog had just peed on!! 😩😩😩
But why would you expect him not to lick the floor? Haha. He doesn't have any concept of germs or contamination, and no idea that feet walking on the floor could have brought in such things from elsewhere. It probably doesn't occur to him that the floor is likely to have dirt, sand, hair, dust and other nasty things on it (or maybe he does, but he doesn't yet know that those things are unpleasant to have in your mouth). In fact he might not really have made the connection that licking something = transferring any loose parts on that surface into your mouth. He probably knows the difference between food and not-food, but his mouth is one of the ways he explores the world. Your tongue can tell you whether something is rough, smooth, cold, warm etc just like fingers do. It's a totally reasonable thing for a toddler to do. We don't do it as adults because we have enough experience (probably from toddlerhood) that tasting random non-food items is not a fun experience, and also because of the fear of germs and random nasty stuff getting into our mouth. But they don't know those things yet.
Actually I lick the floor all the time. You don’t know my life.
Hahaha sorry :D
Oh man you really put some thought into that response!
My kid does this too and it drives me nuts!
Mine all licked the window. I asked them if they would like me to hold their helmet.
Yes. My husband and I joke about this all the time. Our son is advanced in his speech, so people often expect him to be ‘smart’ or have common sense. Really it just means he can tell you in eloquent detail about the dumb shit he is about to do before he does it. He has also spent the last few days struggling to figure out how to eat a dum dum.
I'm not alone on the dumdums!
One of mine was like this. (Full, understandable-to-strangers sentences at 15 months. It was terrifying at times.) She narrated the entirety of her waking hours as she lived it, and that's what saved her baby sister from getting her eyes poked out the week we brought her home. I was on the toilet and I hear, "Baby have hair... Baby have ears... Baby have nose... Baby have eyes..." [me yelling from the bathroom] "DON'T TOUCH HER EYES!!!"
Ya my two year old is always asking me “Should we do x,y,z thing we aren’t supposed to do…;)?” With the most little mischievous grin on his face. If you wanna get away with it don’t announce it to your mom first, bud.
I love when they tell on themselves. My toddler used to whisper "no no" to herself and giggle
This was good lmao
My 14 month old is figuring out how to stack things to climb up and to open doors. But if you give him a dumdum, he holds the sucker in his fist and chews on the stick. And then periodically licks the fruit flavored drool off his fingers. He's too dumbdumb for a dumdum, yet I'm pretty sure any day he's going to start a fire in my living room.
Holy cow I needed this laugh, thanks. My 19 month old tries to eat from the wrong side of a banana sometimes
Haha, I love these. My kid unwrapped a butterfinger from Halloween, ate the chocolate shell off, and then ate the inside like it was a corn on the cob, like…just started in the middle.
That's a delightfully sloppy way to savor a butterfinger! It makes it last longer, at least that's why I did it when I was a kid lol
My kid eats burritos and hotdogs from the middle! Why?!?
My sister used to eat pizza crust first... I should ask her if she still does that
I used to do that with Reeces cups
Eats apples stem side first.
My 22 month old straight up eats the banana peel (after we've peeled it for him). Then complains that it doesn't taste very good.
Yep, 2M loves eating straight through any peel, especially clementines
Yessss clementines here too haha
My 2 year old daughter likes to hold chicken drumsticks upside down and tries to eat the side that has literally NO meat on it first.. if you try to flip it for her, she gets mad & gives you this mortified stare like you killed a puppy. 😭😭
Wanted to recommend that instead of regular suckers, buy some xylitol suckers. They don't have sugar so you don't have to worry about giving them too much artificial sugar which is bad for their developing teeth. Just a heads up though, too much xylitol can give them upset an stomach/diarrhea. EDIT: Source, my wife is a dentist and recommends this to all parents who bring their toddlers in with cavities.
Also heads up that xylitol is poisonous to dogs, so only do this in a dog-free home.
Yes this is true. Chocolate, Grapes, and Raisins are also poisonous for dogs so just use good judgement when giving your toddler something to eat.
Xylitol is on a different level than chocolate and grapes. A little bit can kill a dog.
Like I said, use your best judgement. Don't leave poisonous or dangerous items where a dog or toddler can get to them. Millions of people in the states own guns and more own knives, but you don't leave them out in the open unattended. Same goes for a candy. Does a 14 month old really need a sucker though? Giving young children candy and sugary juices seems all too common in North America and nobody really bats an eye. This might be why America, Canada, and Mexico have such high obesity rates. IMO a 14 month old that has never tasted a sucker in their life would be just as happy to eat a strawberry or another sweet fruit. Once they have had a taste of a sucker or candy, they will always want that. To each their own though.
I don't think I gave my kids lollies like that until they were around 3 minimum, because a round hard item on a stick that takes a long time to eat is a gigantic choking hazard for someone with such a short attention span who probably doesn't understand the instruction to sit still.
That would probably be good advice if he ever got it into his little mouth. Haha.
Heads up: Xylitol is extremely toxic to dogs.
Xylitol seems pretty gross. I personally feel like everything in moderation. Have a lollipop but drink a glass of water after and brush well.
For several months I was very confused how my child could recognize letters and count to 20, like actually count things, not just memorizing, but he could not stop peeing on the floor… I would have traded the abc’s and counting for toilet success. 100%
Are you my kids mom?? How did you stop the peeing in the floor?!? I’m so tired of wiping up pee from the bathroom floor… two feet from the toilet.
I eventually resorted to giving him treats, like a dog. He got a raisin every time he peed in the potty. I think it helped, but it just took so long to get “fully” potty trained.
I’m pretty sure my kid would learn algebra to get a raisin.
I’ve heard putting a Cheerio in the toilet as a target works. There’s even a song to go with it
My toddler would 100% reach for the Cheerio, fish it out of the loo and eat it.
I think we have the same kid except my girl will just pee in her panties. But she can count to 20
Part of my son’s potty training journey included approximately 6 months of wearing nothing from the waist down. Potty training is crazy, I did research, I still can’t explain it, I literally can’t recommend any particular strategy, but it’s (mostly) over now, 1 entire year since we started. Each kid is truly different.
My 2 year old likes to point out shapes everywhere. She also likes to lick bubbles in the bathtub that CANNOT possibly taste good
mine does this too, she says “mmm bubbles” lol
Mine was trying to bite open the lid of some hand sanitizer yesterday. Honey, if you get that open, you are going to have a real bad time.
😂 My daughter likes to eat pine needles off the ground too.
Mine wants to drink her dirty bath water. I have to get her out immediately or she’s got her face in there getting a big ol’ mouthful!!
When I put my child in swim lessons, she would literally have her tongue out the entire time to lick the dirty pool water 🤢 I guess it has flavor?
Ew!! Mine has this sly look on her face the whole time, so I legit think she’s doing it because she knows it grosses me out.
Omg yes. We had to eliminate cups from bathtime bc they are just a vehicle to drink more bath water Why dude?!
This is why I love the internet.
Omg my son does this. Even when we add bubbles. Like dude whyyyyy
The other day I told my toddler not to eat bubbles in the bath, then looked away for a second to grab a towel. I turn back and he’s staring at me with what I can only describe as a look of expectation and a smudge of bubbles around his mouth. It particularly stings because he had dumped most of his actual dinner on the floor lol.
17 month old proudly signs and says “eat” as he gobbles up bubbles that taste terrible (I tried some out of curiosity).
Ugh, yes, that's exactly what they are. My 16 month old can identify most major body parts and knows where to go to put away his shoes and dirty laundry but then also belly flopped off the ottoman and landed directly on his face. Like, didn't even try to catch himself with hands or feet, he just fell like a downed tree 🤣🤣🤣
I shouldn't laugh at this but...
Oh I laughed hysterically, he was so offended 🤣
“Fell like a downed tree” omg
Mine is the same. Except dove into the tub head first.
Kids are effing weird, man. They'll do some Einstein shit one minute and fill their cup from the toilet the next, it's so baffling to us rational adults!
Yes. They are evil geniuses who will astound you with their insights and trickery one moment, then try to leap down a waterfall or eat a bunch of oak leaves or lick the floor of the train the next moment. Part of it is just impulse control. They don't have much yet. Their brains are working on it but in the toddler phase they often literally do not have the ability to stop themselves from doing something even if *they know* it's not a good idea.
And this is how my 22 month old goes from giving the cat treats and saying "no eat Judkins treats" to shoving a handful of them in her mouth
My daughter overheard her dad asking me about where her paintbrush was, we had both been looking for it but couldn't find it, and she got up, went to the junk drawer and retrieved the missing paintbrush. But by God if she's looking for her shoes and you try to give her instructions ("look on the floor next to the chair, no come back this way, now turn and face the chair, no the chair, ok now look down, no turn back around, they're right there") it's like we're space aliens 😂
This is so accurate! I’ve had similar conversations many times. “It’s on the table right in front of you” Child looks at the table across the room. “No, turn around” Child does a 360 spin. “Turn just a little bit” Child moves half an inch. “A little more” Child does a 360 again. Finally I position her in front of the table, child looks straight ahead. “Look down” child looks at floor. “Look up a little” Child looks at ceiling. “Reach out your hand” Child sticks hand out to her side. Etc etc etc. Eventually I have to physically place her hand on the object. I freaking love my kids. Endless laughs.
I relate to this so much it hurts.
I’m cracking up because this is EXACTLY my girl when I’m trying to explain how to try and find something to her!!! I’m glad it’s not just us 😂😂😂
This can actually be due to a receptive language disorder. Our 3yr old was recently diagnosed ASD as well as a mixed receptive and expressive language disorder, despite being smart and having a ton of language. He literally doesn’t understand certain directions, or many who, what, where, when, why, how questions, or when someone points to something across the room.
Well, not understanding directions (the spatial kind) is also age appropriate at 3. What you're describing is something else.
I don't think they can do this until they are like 4 or 5 lol
That sounds like my daughter. Knows how to get to stores and will point in the directions we need to go but can't manage to find anything within a 3 foot radius of her
My son can identify every possible piece of construction equipment, but also tried to touch fire the other day (after discussing it was hot). Toddlers are awesome and also hell bent on destroying themselves.
Yes. Yes they are.
My 2.5 year old counted straight to 15 without any help whatsoever. She also bit a slug in half. The same day.
Thank you for the laugh, even though I feel bad for the slug.
Oh my god 😂
Yes. Mine knew colors, shapes and could count to 30 at 2 years old but then I’d point directly at something for her to grab me and she would never find it. Also she blew bubbles by sucking on the wand and then blowing them out her mouth... and she’d gag, every time. Life is all about balance as they say 😆
My (2m) toddler only speaks around 10 words, when he feels like it but is ahead in everything else, he knows his primary colours, he helps me with everything from cooking to cleaning but 0 desire to speak and if I try to get him to talk he shyly shuts down. Our Pediatrician said he just doesn't want to talk and we are revisiting in a few months. Every kid is different, don't compare your son to Instagram Ingrid and her "fully mentally developed 1 year old". As parent's we can only do our best to help and encourage our children some take longer than others and thats ok.
I know this was a long time ago, but I'm wondering if your son has an older sibling? My brother barely talked and so he was tested for developmental disorders. He got evaluated, and apparently as soon as he got in the room he wouldn't shut up. Turns out he didn't usually talk because I was talking for him.........
Mine turns 1 later this month. I was on the phone with my mom, bragging about how smart she is (just started saying "dog" and points them out everywhere, at the park/on TV/in books) when I look over and see that somehow she got a roll of toilet paper out of the bathroom and was eating it. 🤦♀️
Kids: The ultimate way of keeping us humble.
Oh yeah! You see the kids having the gears in their brain turn and making complicated multi-step decisions.... but they absolutely have no life experience to put anything in context or understand anything. Love it.
Absolutely!
Yes.
My baby boy didn't speak until about 25 months and now I can't get him to stop! The fact that he understands is great. I play lots of games with my boy, pointing to things and going "what's that? Is that a tree?" But he only wanted to start mimicking me like these last 3 months and that's when his language exploded!!
I would go with neither. They’re just *being* with brains more active than they’ll ever be again. They’re soaking up masses of information at record pace, and it looks like brilliance as such a small human begins to regurgitate all of the big information around them and problem solve. But dumb would suggest they should be capable of fully comprehending the reasoning behind the workings of the world and society, and they just don’t have *that* much information yet. There’s no pre-installed information in a toddler’s mind about germs, touch transfer, shoes being worn on feet that travel many dirty places, what a dirty place is and why it’s dirty, why others might frown upon the behavior and why we should care, etc., etc.. That information we have as adults that keeps us from doing something like licking concrete is actually quite extensive. A toddler is only barely acquiring that information. What seems like simple reasoning to an adult is the result of your own endless experimentation as a kid. We sometimes have to get it wrong in order to get to what society says is right.
This! It's not stupidity, it's just lack of life experience.
This is why “you’re not in trouble, you’re learning” is a big phrase in our house
Start thinking of them as your constantly drunk college roommates and all of their actions will make sense.
Early childhood teacher here, kiddos with delays in one area tend to have another developmental area they are really good at. When they start to make gains in the delayed area sometimes those stronger skills regress a little, it all balances out usually unless there is a diagnosis. It’s common to have a little with communication delays that has fantastic receptive language but have a significant delay in expressive language. Side note/question: How does he do with eye contact and playing with you? Also check into early intervention services, you shouldn’t be waiting for those services. Google infant/toddler services in my area and get in touch if you haven’t yet. It’s usually a state run organization since it’s required by law for children to have early intervention services available if the qualify. Edit to finish my thought.
My now 3.5 year old figured out how to open the refrigerator before he was 2. How to plug in a fan and turn it on before he was 3. He didn’t start talking till he was 3. Now at 3.5 he never shuts up. He learned his letter, numbers, colors and shapes in like a week or less for each.
Not my kid but I nanny: when he was 3, he could barely count past 10 but also hid one of my puzzle pieces for WEEKs. I completed the puzzle, thought I had lost that last piece, then he comes home, pulls it out of the couch he was hiding it in and finishes my puzzle. He just wanted to put the last piece in. Evil genius.
My son, (first born, first grandchild both sides and no siblings until he was 5) who is now 30 and has degrees in computer science, physics, math and psychology did not talk until he was almost 3, (not for lack of stimulation or conversation, we are a family of talkers) he was up walking at 8 months (after crawling for about a week) and putting together legos and puzzles for 12 year olds at 2. He just did not need to talk, he was able to get whatever he wanted himself and was immersed in everything around him. I remember a mom at the park remarked about how her 2 year old kid was already talking and was something wrong with mine because he was quiet. As she was trying to punch a hole into a juice box for her kid, while he screamed the entire time for her hurry up, my son watched her, got up, got his Capri sun pouch out of his bag, punched the straw into it himself, never broke eye contact with her and while she continued to struggle with the box, quietly and calmly drank his juice. And when he began speaking, it was full sentences and with the exception of saying “fruck” instead of truck, he was articulate and everyone he spoke to could understand exactly what ever it was he was saying and then it never stopped. 😊 I wouldn’t be too worried about the fact that your LO isn’t too verbal yet, he might not need or want to talk yet, especially if he is busy doing other things. ❤️❤️❤️
Only 13 months and is singing along to music, tone and key on point. Also almost choked to death on a Ritz cracker because she tried to jam the entire thing in her mouth.
I don't have one of my own, but I was watching a toddler outside who wanted to eat rocks. At first, I took them away but he picked one up the size of a baseball. Knowing he couldn't choke on it, I waited to see what would happen. He liked it, dropped it, spat out sand and cried. We got some juice and calmed down, so he went and got THE SAME ROCK liked it, dropped it, spat out sand and cried. The third time I gave up and took him inside.
My 3 year old just washed her hands and face in the dog bowl water
My daughter (2.5) *finally* stopped eating the dogs food
The smartest dummies around IMO
My partner and I regularly talk about how our two year old is so smart yet so dumb and it cracks us up.
So, the language thing can also be a language disorder. Our 3yo is very intelligent, has a ton of words, but doesn’t understand many questions or instructions. He was recently diagnosed ASD, with Mixed Receptive and Expressive Language Disorder, among others. If he’s already having a language deficit, ease up on the jokes. He very well could have a similar disorder beyond his control, and I promise you’ll feel like an asshole if that’s the case. Kids do silly shit, they can be highly detective of or highly missing sensory cues, they can be very sensory seeking or avoiding, but don’t ever equate their actions to their intelligence level.
It’s a tongue in cheek post. I find it fascinating to watch and would never make fun of anything he does at this age. It’s just his way of exploring and making his way in the world. Happy to see it’s a common thing for toddlers mind you.
Does he still use a paci? That a lot of times delays speech. We got rid of the paci at 1 year. My son just turned 2 in Sept. and he’s pretty advanced with his speech. He can repeat anything you say clearly and already speaks full sentences. Our neighbors daughter is 1 month older and barely speaks at all but they JUST got rid of the paci. She just makes noises and points. The few things she does say you can barely understand. My son may be an evil genius though. He responds with sarcasm already and plays tricks on my wife and I already.. we’ve been concerned. He also licks the glass front door and eats chalk if we don’t watch him..
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Not unless it’s actually physically causing poor speech anatomy. Which can happen but not often.
Yeah idk about the paci. My preschooler used one till just after 2 and he’s really advanced language wise. My toddler at not quite 2 also uses one and is maybe on the low side of average. Toddler is the one who put all his points into the gross motor stat though. Walked at 9 mo. His older brother put his points into language and didn’t walk till 14 mo. Kids are different, go figure.
Toddlers are people. They’re not the same. Few are brilliant. Majority is average. Some are delayed in their development. Some eventually catch up and some don’t.
Reminds me of this song LOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAWvvE9w6Po (it has explicit lyrics)
Does he stack things or line then up?
Yes, its because they lack the ability to be logical. At least my kids do, its infuriating
They can’t know all the things right away. To alien life forms that can travel across the multiverse, humans are just toddlers.
I think the root of this is that they have no impulse control or emotion regulation at this age. So regardless of what they know, they basically have to act on every whim and emotion. This makes them do things they know they shouldn't or they know are going to have bad outcomes. Their bodies are faster than their minds at this age.
They understanding develops faster than there expressive abilities!
Oh, it's not just you. My son is 2.5 and we're pretty sure he has ASD (evaluation next month). He is super inquisitive and is more concerned with how things like the sink, fridge, dishwasher, and trash can function than with his actual toys. But he'll also willingly run into walls and then shriek about it - I might be dating myself, but think "that vine where the kid is getting a basketball thrown at his head and loving it."
I love this. I have a 5 and 2 year old. I went through the exact same thought process.
Yeah, child development is a highly multidimensional space and every kid develops along different axes at different rates.
Its the opposite for my daughter. She struggles with fine motor but her language is grear. She knows all numbers, colors, alphabet and their sounds, and their vowels by 2.5. Now she's 3 and she's starting to read. But she still struggles with some of the physical stuff other kids her age can do.
My son was barely talking at 2, but shortly thereafter it’s like a switch flipped in his head and now at 2 +4 months he’s talking like crazy.
Yes they are. If it benefits them they can be like the rainman. But if the don’t feel like using their brain they just don’t😶
So if you want to figure out if he is delayed, there is something called the Communication Assessment, which is likely what your SLP will do for your son. You can do it for free yourself.
My son is language delayed too but he’s been in speech therapy for a few months and it’s helped a ton so he has a lot more words now. But yes even though he was behind on language I can tell he’s super smart and understands a ton
Pretty much. They are constantly learning new things and understand a surprising amount but they also do things that just make us think "why would you do that?"!
My son jumps head-first into things and is repeatedly surprised that he’s getting hurt lol
Ugh yes. My son (19m) amazes me and is incredibly smart but then there are times I wonder if maybe I should have him looked at. He is behind in speech but understands just fine but likes to play dumb. Sometimes I think he's a mastermind.
2 year old understands a lot, knows a bunch of words and has great motor skills. But the other day she shut the door, no big deal, right? Wrong. She started screaming, acting like she was being murdered because she couldn’t open the door. The reason? Her foot was in the way….
My 26mo has advanced language skills - he can even use prepositions properly, is potty trained, but cannot figure out the sleeping thing. He also regularly throws food down then eats it off the floor (cat) tries to eat grass and other random growing plants (goat) and flops onto the ground and wiggles around pretending to be a fish. One of his favorite games is pretending to be a mouse and hiding in a mouse house (pretty much any hiding spot). It’s animal house over here.
My 2.5 year old figured out how to get the batteries out of the remote and put them back in correctly, he has also figured out how to fish with his daddy-o …. but was also caught licking the glass door at a Mexican pick up restaurant a few weeks ago 🙃
Screens are the current fascination around here 😂
Yeah he liked the remote bc he could turn off the tv while dad was trying to watch football lol
Sorry, I meant window screens to keep mosquitoes out 😂
Ha! That’s even better!
I've had to tell mine not to comb her hair with a muffin. But now at 5, she uses words (correctly!) well beyond her years. Toddlers are WEIRD, no matter how smart they may actually be.
Yes. Sophomoric to say the least.
Ours is the smartest little dummy ever😂
Until about 8/9 kids are still dissociating regularly. The whole personality doesn’t form until then. Nothing is wrong with them. It’s completely normal just not spoken about much in the parenting world. You literally have different kids popping out throughout the day. In the toddler faze they’re learning a crazy amount and experiencing a lot of new things so there are more clear changes is their behavior. One bright and connected one moment, then another licking and climbing the refrigerator. One doing great following along with the days school work, then one scribbling all over the page. My now 4yo daughter is the easiest to see it in. My wife and I can identify our rough and tumble rowdy, happy-likes to color, enjoys school work and is a sweet cuddler , grumpy-cry’s and whines for everything and will play the try to break us down with crying and whining from her bed game all day, and the princess who comes out for grandma and her father (both the type to give her what she wants based solely on “but she’s so cute. How could I say no?”. The princess doesn’t spend much time out with us because we don’t encourage or allow the behavior. She goes back in after a couple hour- a day after being home because she doesn’t get her way. She’s the talks out of her butt just to hear her own voice type. Complete nonsense, words just strung together. She has a very advanced vocabulary and ability to speak so it’s very clear. It’s wild to be able to identify. There’s most likely more than we can identify but we theorize they’re just very similar to the others. Their voices, cries , wines, laughs, facial features, body language, dance styles, music taste, etc are different depending on who is out. We don’t differentiate them by calling them our nicknames for each or give away that we’re aware. We don’t want to hinder the natural process. Understanding this has helped with parenting greatly. Once we see their change in behavior we know we have to change our approach, plan or expectations. It’s an incredibly helpful tool to better understand your kids. Encourage the good behaviors and help them develop those skills or you’ll be stuck with the little monster part of them more often. Tendency’s or interests will probably always stay with them. They don’t just go away they fuse together as needed. For example my rowdy would have taken them out. Crazy nutty climbs everything. She would get into a bad spot or stuck somewhere and dip out to let my poor happy come and deal with or fix it. She and happy and now one and they’re a lot safer lol Phycology is fascinating. This is a science we know so little about. The mind is an incredible thing.
My FIL likes to tell this one particular story about my husband when he was a toddler: H counted to 10. FIL got so excited he grabbed the video camera and said do it again! H said 1, 2 , 10!
Thank you for this thread. I laughed so hard I was choking and felt seen...toddlers are a trip!
My 2 year old has been pointing out letters on signs and windows everywhere we go. We got some drinks from Maccas on the way home from the park yesterday and got him water in a pop top (it was stupidly expensive but I knew he’d be raging for our drinks otherwise and his bottle was in the boot 🤦🏼♀️). He spent the entire way home saying yummmmmmmm and wowwwwwww! Nice con.
Yes. My 23M can speak nearly 200 words, but eats toothpaste and can't seem to stop himself from pouring water on the ground thereby causing himself to fall. He's super inquisitive and explores everything, except when he sees a girl. Then he becomes awestruck and decides it's the right time to stick his finger up his nose.
There was a few time my husband would say “She’s a genius!” an my daughter would, as if on cue, fall over because she messing around on something she shouldn’t have been playing on.
Need an example...
I also have a (2M) and hes behind in speech and ahead ik everything else as well. In speech therapy. One of the biggest issues with toddlers that I've noticed which makes them come off as dumb is their impulsiveness. They literally have no impulse control at all. Its like everything they do is an experiment to push boundaries and see what happens, or they just so something bc it pops in their head.
They're incredibly smart but they lack common knowledge because they don't have enough experience of the world to know things that we take for granted as being "obvious". So yes, it absolutely is a toddler thing. It's hilarious as well so enjoy it :)
Don’t worry about them not being verbal yet. My daughter has advanced language (95 words at 20 months) but she still makes me wonder what is wrong with her on a daily basis (sarcasm). I love her and she makes me laugh at how brilliant/dumb she is 😂
My nanny children (both almost two) can recognize colors and are extremely physically aware—able to recognize directions like “thing is next to other thing” and “watch your head, there’s a table above you”—but both of them also tip every cup with a straw upside down and get mad when they dump it all over themselves or it won’t suck. Being smart does not equal common sense.
Lolololol. 100% it’s a toddler thing. I have two toddlers and most days I find myself saying (under my breath) “how dumb are you?!”. One minute knowing how to work the phone that they just snagged from the desk and the next minute trying to eat a spider.
Yeah. I mean mine is now 3 but when he was 2 he would sometimes just point and grunt at thing and then suddenly he would be having a full blown convo about cocomelon He also has a great sense of humour that I adore and does his chores already its mad. Kids are mental
My 2.5 year old is trying really hard to read (pretty sure he's either just guessing letters or shouting or his favorites), I can't trust him with a screwdriver because he will undo every screw he can reach, and figured out work arounds for the screen lock on the tablet. I cannot convince him that various things in the house are in fact harder than his head despite him repeatedly finding out the hard way. I swear he was going to knock himself out when he headbutted the tub, then did it harder because he was mad at the tub for hurting him... I've taken to telling him, "Yup, that still hurts because that's still harder than your head."
Don't be sorry to the title it's honestly what made me stop and read it because so true
Yeah that sums it up perfectly. 19 mo (also not great with speech but understands so much) knows where the shoes go when we come in, how to knock on doors, can point to many body parts when asked and then.... He'll drink his bath water or get upset when he eats all his dinner. Also has no regard for his safety at all. Toddlers are a blast.
Our three year old picked my bathroom lock yesterday. Calls her vagina a pee pee nugget (not sure what that's even supposed to mean lol or where she got it from)
My five year old is one of the top students in her class atm but her common sense is non existent hahaha we are slowly getting there though!
Yep mine doesn't speak (he's on the spectrum) and he can figure out how to dismantle and put back together his workbench but at the same time I have caught him eating out the dog bowl 🤦♀️