Kid!Fic Addendum
Jul. 31st, 2013 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mark_asphodelIn relation to this rant:
I spent the weekend among family; the occasion was the birthday party of a bright and voluble three-year-old. As my family breeds like Kennedys, there were quite a few kidlets in packed into a short age range. None of them have been ID'd as having developmental issues to my knowledge.
1) The birthday girl, the voluble three-year-old, who was a right little chatterbox until she got overtired
2) Another girl a week away from her third birthday, who was mostly silent but occasionally spoke a quiet complete sentence to her mother or grandmother.
3) A five-year-old boy not noticeably more talkative than child #1
4) A two-year-old girl who never uttered a word or word-like sound in my earshot
5) A two-year-old boy, same
6) A six-year-old boy who never interacted with me personally but was clearly talking to other people
7) A newborn baby (2 mos) who slept, cried, and pooped and didn't do much else.
8-10) Some other boys in the 6-10 range with whom I did not interact.
Determining "normal behavior" in kids from this sample is pretty hard given #1 and #2 are the exact same age (two-week difference) yet could not have been more different in presentation. (I will add that #1 has very hands-on and involved parents and #2 does, ah, not.) General lessons to draw:
Two year olds don't really have a lot to say.
The kids who did speak were speaking actual words and not "cute" baby talk
Newborn babies are really quite boring.
I spent the weekend among family; the occasion was the birthday party of a bright and voluble three-year-old. As my family breeds like Kennedys, there were quite a few kidlets in packed into a short age range. None of them have been ID'd as having developmental issues to my knowledge.
1) The birthday girl, the voluble three-year-old, who was a right little chatterbox until she got overtired
2) Another girl a week away from her third birthday, who was mostly silent but occasionally spoke a quiet complete sentence to her mother or grandmother.
3) A five-year-old boy not noticeably more talkative than child #1
4) A two-year-old girl who never uttered a word or word-like sound in my earshot
5) A two-year-old boy, same
6) A six-year-old boy who never interacted with me personally but was clearly talking to other people
7) A newborn baby (2 mos) who slept, cried, and pooped and didn't do much else.
8-10) Some other boys in the 6-10 range with whom I did not interact.
Determining "normal behavior" in kids from this sample is pretty hard given #1 and #2 are the exact same age (two-week difference) yet could not have been more different in presentation. (I will add that #1 has very hands-on and involved parents and #2 does, ah, not.) General lessons to draw:
Two year olds don't really have a lot to say.
The kids who did speak were speaking actual words and not "cute" baby talk
Newborn babies are really quite boring.
