Learning A New Language

Lately, in an effort to get our babies to speak and communicate more, we have mounted a unified effort at making sure our kids know the correct term for everything we give them.

If they point to something, we discuss the name of the object. If they want something, we discuss what it is they are asking for, and the correct way to ask for it.

We thought this might help close our communication gap since they kids are 2 1/2 now, and really should be speaking English more, instead of tripletese.

I was so wrong on all accounts! All this has seemed to do, is inspire my trio to decide to mount their own unified effort to try and teach US how to speak tripletese.

We tell them the word for red in English, Kaiden in turn will look at us, point at the red object, and say the word SLOWLY in tripletese and get upset until we repeat it for him as he said it to begin with.

This happens often at my house. We seem to be gridlocked in our efforts to close the communication gap on both side of the coin.

The more we try and teach our children English, the more the babies try and teach us to speak Tripletese.

I swear that I fully expect for them to look at me one day, make the silly Star Trek sign with their fingers (think Vulcans) and say, "We come in peace!"

But, what's a Mum to do? Are they really going to try and take over the world and make Tripletese the universal spoken language?

Some days it just feels like that, I suppose!