A question for the Mothers of the Lounge...

When did your children start talking. Baby Carton is 14 months old, she says a few words such as "that," "cat," "no" and "da-da" otherwise she just grunts a lot. We talk to her and try to get her to say things, but no dice as of yet. Any suggestions?

is over 2 years old and he doesn't really say much. He's getting more talkative but he doesn't string sentences together. Just words.

I am not a parent, so I don't have any expert knowledge but, I guess when they are ready to talk they will.

LittleCoffee (my daughter) started speaking recognizable words at 11 months

BabyCoffee (my son) didn't really start speaking words beyond baby babble until he was about 15 months

Reverse those ages to see how old each was when they started walking.

She dances and makes singing noises when she hears music.

It seems almost universal with everyone I've talked to about this; if a child walks/talks early, the other will come seemingly late.

My little MB started saying something that sounded like "abbey" and reaching out for take something with she was 5 months old...we soon learned she was trying to say "have it". By one year old, she had a pretty good vocabulary - mommy, daddy, cow, dog, cat, horse, etc.

But I also have friends who's children don't say a peep until they are over a year old.

I would consult with your pediatrician to get a better read on the child.

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But when he got his cell phone, the first bill had over 700 text messages the first day.:crazy: :rofl:

On a more serious note I honestly don't remember those days very well, if you are just asking out of "first time parent" sort of nervousness I'm sure you will get good info and support here but also try the google for "child development milestones" or similar topics.

If your gut is telling you something might be wrong go with it and have him checked - talk to your pediatrician.

She shows no signs of developmental problems, is very aware, observant and quick. She already has an idea how the remote controls work, loves to pull down her books and flip through them, she dances and sings to music too. I'm just curious when other children really started takling

Just "first time parent" questions.

Our son was doing that at the same age. We also used baby-sign - mostly "stop" and "eat" and "more" - frequently. If you haven't tried signing, we found it came in handy. Our son began speaking more clearly (mostly labeling, and a few noun/verb pairings) after he turned two, and now he's three and speaking in paragraphs.

There's a lot of mouth/lip/tongue coordination involved in learning to speak. We've found that his language development has mirrored his physical development. I think that as most children become steadier on their feet, more secure in their surroundings, better able to control their own body, so are they also able to speak and communicate ideas better.

But he didn't really start 'talking', aka conveying meaning on purpose with intent until around 13 months. Combining two or more words around 15 months, and real communication two way around 16 months.

not talking yet- Nothing wrong just isn't talking- Einstein didn't talk until he was 4 years of age.

He's not really talking yet. He will say a few words now and then and not really stringing anything together. We put him in daycare on July 1st to get him used to being around other children his age for the socialization. He's now trying to "talk" - the usual jibberish, but not much to understand yet.

My MIL read somewhere that the tongue needs to develop in order for children to start forming words. Up until she read that, we had him using sippy cups. We switched to sippy cups with straws and he's trying to vocalize more. Now daycare has him drinking out of a cup normally.

They all develop at different rates. Your daughter sounds fine to me.

and when he was distressed, he wouldn't talk. Oh, and he made up his own words for concepts that only made sense to him, like "nom" which meant food, I'm hungry, and was a generic word for any bread-like food but especially flour tortillas. At two we were a bit worried because he was still VERY hard to understand, and pretty much spoke his own dialect that only seemed distantly related to English. We looked into having some kind of assessment and were told that if his vocabulary was over 200 words, he was stringing words into sentences at least part of the time, and he seemed to understand what we said it wasn't needed. This turned out to be the correct advice- at three he almost suddenly became easy to understand, and started speaking when he was frustrated, which he didn't do before. One thing that did seem to help is that we had a few tapes of very structured shows for children (mostly old episodes of Blue's Clues) and watching those over and over and repeating the words seemed to help a lot with his pronunciation and confidence with language.