This boy loves chocolate milk. When he began speaking he called it cow-cow. Now our family all calls chocolate milk cow-cow. I’m sure you have similar words in your family. Please share them and help a friend of mine.
This is my amazing blog friend named Kimber. Her posts on Mental Maytag are always so refreshing and real. She’s a wife, a mom, a daycare provider, a writer, and a student.
A student. That’s what she needs help with right now. She’s working on a master’s project with the Applied Linguistics Program at her university. She needs 3,000 unique parent responses of words their children came up with when learning to speak. That’s a lot!
So please help her by clicking here and leaving your child’s special word(s) along with the translation(s)/correct word(s). If you prefer, there’s a tab at the top of her blog labeled Language Acquisition Study where you can print the form to fill out.
I know she’ll very much appreciate your responses! And it’s always fun to remember the crazy things your children said as toddlers. Now I’m off to dig through the basket of treasured papers where I’ve tossed papers with each of my children’s peculiar words.
Love it! Here’s the comment I made on her blog:
Our two year old calls oatmeal, “Ompiomp” (owm-pee-owmp), and calls both of his grandpas “Balker.” I know he can pronounce those words properly, but he chooses his words instead.
He also calls a diaper “beater,” and adds a “G” to the beginning of angel and orange, pronouncing them, “Grangel,” and “Gorange”
So funny. Ompiomp sounds harder to say than oatmeal!