Toddler Talk

[lathany]

Today's Parent and Toddler group was the venue for Ryan's first sentence. In response to the question "What do you want?" he replied "I want some orange."

He also made a complete exhibition of himself in Tesco. To the point that bateleur had to carry him out (screaming) and then home. The further away from Tesco (and Mummy) he got, the louder he screamed. Until, that is, he was being carried up the stairs. Still furious he started shouting "Music! Music!" between screams. He got what he wanted (bateleur played him music in the computer room) and then he retired quietly to his own room to play with his toys.

Music soothes the screaming hippo. Or something like that.

Comments

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, if lathany had been screaming "I want my toddler", she probably would have got all the attention and assistance she needed.

The thing is that small children are not even slightly trustworthy sources of information. In particular, if a small kid is with an adult, then it takes a lot to accept the kid's word over the adult's, or to do other than assume that the adult really is responsible for the kid.

The benefit of this behaviour is that a kid can't shut down a supermarket just by throwing a strop and forcing their parent to justify what's going on to everyone nearby and then every single person they meet on the way home. The cost is that some small proportion of kidnappings will succeed where they would otherwise fail. So no, I'm not terribly worried because the trade-off is probably worth it.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

lathany is, sadly, a little more likely to scream:

"No, not the toddler! Anything but the toddler!"