|
|||||
      |
Who needs a DVD player when a tablespoon will make the baby recite the entire script of "Mary Poppins"? I am of a generation, and a family, where entire conversations can go by without an original sentence being uttered. It might go something like this: Simpsons, Simpsons, Dirty Dancing, Seinfeld, High Plains Drifter, Road House, infomercial, [...] Quinn’s first word at ten months old was “ball.” Her SECOND first word, with the sign, more than a year later and after months of silence, was “flower.” And it was every bit as thrilling. Sign language was huge for us in getting Quinn to speak again. Around her first birthday, we had made a list of all [...] Quinn is four, and she has never asked a why question. Or a “How come?” She has the “who, what and where” down, no problem. But after that, she doesn’t do a lot of digging. She respects your right to keep your motives private. It should be the simplest thing in the world. It is the example everyone uses to illustrate the simplest thing in the world. “It is a yes or no question! Just tell me yes or no!” My child ignored me. I could jump, dance, sing. Bang a pan. Wear a shoe as a hat. The louder I got, the more I begged for her attention, the more she turned away. One day I stood in front of her and did an 97 decibel song-and-dance number titled, “Quinn, Do You Want To Go Outside [...] |
Custom Search
  |
|||
|
Copyright © 2010 Talk Small - All Rights Reserved |
|||||
