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I copied the picture and paragraph above from the weekly email I receive from BabyCenter. Lyle is quickly picking up new words and I love it that he's widening his vocabulary. But just like a sponge a child's brain is picking up everything they hear and see. There's no filtering system so what happens is that they'll imitate what they saw and will say whatever thay heard. Hubby had a memorable experience on this =) he just related to me this story because it happened when I was still in Singapore. And I want to also share this piece of story with you, so here it goes.. While hubby was at the kitchen and frying, the oil started to splatter. When one big splatter hit him, he said "sh*t" and it was loud enough that Lyle heard him. The word had an impact for Lyle that he immediately said the word and hubby heard him said that. Lyle's Uncle Plok who was also there heard him. Hubby decided not to make a big fuss over what happened and just waited to react in case Lyle will repeat saying the word. Lyle didn't get any attention after saying the word and realizing that, he just continue on the things he was doing. Then when Lyle turn around, hubby and Plok laughed =) it was one funny experience for them. Good thing that Lyle didn't repeat saying the word and I haven't heard him saying that again (as of this writing).
Do you also have this kind of experiences? How did you handle it? I would love to hear your story.
1 comment:
Your husband's decision to ignore what your child said is also working for us. We don't pay too much attention on our children's minor misdeeds and eventually, they tend to forget about it.
I think this is because children are attention seeker and whatever things they do or say that gives them attention, they will always repeat it. So, it is better to give attention to what our children is doing right rather than doing the opposite.
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