Posted by Dinah on June 17, 2006, at 17:41:59
In reply to Re: not wanting children...can anyone relate?, posted by Declan on June 17, 2006, at 16:29:33
My son was so funny when he was little. He never did babytalk much. He said vifins for vitamins, meatmall for meatball, and ameriflag for american flag. And he loved to pick up sticks and rake leaves with them while telling us "ba-ah-boo", so we called them ba-ah-boo sticks, although we never did figure out what that meant.
But he was sort of late talking, and when he started talking he would talk fairly well. We walked in on him a couple of times in his room. He was practicing his vocalizing in his crib well before he started talking. Apparently he was self conscious about baby talk in front of us, but practiced making the sounds alone.
(He's still sort of like that.)
FWIW, every single person who commented on childrearing while I was pregnant told me that boys were easier than girls. Personally, I think it's the individual. I was easier than my brother. But my son is as easy as pie. Or maybe "onlies" are easier to raise...
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