no baby bubbling in past and great vocabulary at the age of 20 months

Phi - posted on 01/24/2010

we have a multi langual home and my daughter can understand 3 languages, she speaks in all three she is 20 months now and holds conversations with me, she didnt ever really do the baby talk thing, she said her first word at 3 months ann'e ( mommy in turkish) and has used real words most of the time ever since,

Lina - posted on 01/24/2010

Cathrallyn, thanks for your answer ;)
thats great that youd kid loves reading. well, i couldnt say that Olivija admires books. yes, we look at the pictures, but very often she has not enough patience to wait me read the text. she usually starts "reading" herself or finds something more interesting :) but she loves my poems. i ussually put in lines our activities. she is trying to repeat :)

Lina - posted on 01/23/2010

Nikki, well... you are right.
Here in Lithuania (we live in a small country in the very middle of the Europe), one of the parents has possibility to stay at home with a child until he is two years, getting a hundred percent of former sallary for the first year and eighty five percent for the second year (it is a law, it is paid by the government institutions). after such a great possibility to make connections with a child from the very begining, it is a shame, that researches show, that the avarage amount of time lithuanian spend with his child (they had counted the time, then all the attention is paid on child only) is... seven minutes per day.
Yes, if parents do so, then the day care may be much more useful.

Cathralynn - posted on 01/23/2010

My daughter didn't babble until she actually started saying words, waaay late. We always thought she was focusing on walking which she did around ten months. But her vocabulary is right on track from what I think. She says ALOT of words, I agree she needs to pronounce them better, but only in the last few weeks did she start stringing words together. I still wouldn't call them sentences. She seems to be learning her colors as well, no idea where this falls in comparison to others. Anyways, she stays with grandma during the day until I became unemployed in november. No public daycare ever. And I worked the morning shift so as to spend half days with her. We do no tv and really talk to her all the time and read lots of books. Hope this is what you were looking for. (Oh and your language skills are great! I wouldn't have guessed english wasn't your first language except that I didn't recognize your daughter's first words.)

Nikki - posted on 01/23/2010

For what ever the circumstance may be, (depression, too busy, etc.) some parents even stay at home parents don't spend the time working with their kids. So to say that a child who is further along than the average is perhaps because of a stay at home situation is inaccurate. I do believe that it has a lot to do with the child's surroundings and adult care, but a day care provider could potentially provide more stimulation than an actual parent. That's the long version of my "last sentence."

Lina - posted on 01/23/2010

Nikki, I also do beleive, that spending time with your child and communicating with him/her helps to develop language skills.
What do you mean with your last sentence?
Still waiting for moms of pour babblers to answer :)

Nikki - posted on 01/22/2010

My daughter babbled plenty when she was young. She is now speaking in short sentences. "Hold me, please" "I want milk" "I like it", among many other words, etc. My husband or I are with her every day. I think it plays a big part in babies developments... unless they are with a relative or someone what shares the same passion in their learning and communicating as parents do. Although from the sounds of some posts here, even some parents don't seem too passionate about their kids...

Lina - posted on 01/22/2010

Myra, Tanya, thanks for your answers, but... maybe I missrepresented the point I was looking at. My doughter's voc. is fabulous now, really. I understand, that some missing letters and some "only her and mine" words both are normal. I wanted to know, if there are more May2008 babies, who didnt baby babble and now have a wide vocabularies. and if they are i) staying at home with one of their parents or ii) getting a day care. The point is I wonder if my being all day mom has had an impact on her ability to express herself in words.
Sorry for my english, not native, not the first foreign language at school.

Tanya - posted on 01/21/2010

As Myra said, it's perfectly normal for toddlers to miss out on pronouncing certain letters or even to shorten words when they're talking. My son has a great vocabulary for a 20-month-old, but he still has problems with pronouncing consonants when there are 2 in a row ("stick" becomes "tick", "helicopter" becomes "heliter" or "copper", "twinkle" becomes "tinkle", etc.). I was just telling a friend the other day how easy it is to take for granted that your child will understand - and be understood - when their vocabulary is so large at this age, but we have to remember that they're still learning.

Myra - posted on 01/21/2010

Some babies don't babble a whole lot, and some do it constantly. The fact that she is saying words, even if she isn't saying all the letters, she's right on track. According to the books I've read, it's normal at 24 months to only understand about 50% of what toddlers say (less is understood than that at the age your daughter is). A lot of the reason letters are not pronounced or things are mispronounced is because toddlers are still learning to manipulate their tongue to pronounce things and the teeth also play an important role. Without all the teeth, it can be very hard, if not impossible, to say each sound correctly or at all, even.



If you are worried about her vocabulary, spend more time reading, singing, and talking to her, but from how it sounds, she seems to be at a normal level.