Talking in Video Clips
Is it just my family or do most kids talk in video clips? At first, their dialogue is composed largely from lines from Disney movie. For instance, any time the number 66 is mentioned, they whistle "Sixty-six percent" just like that beaver on Lady and the Tramp. When they're looking for me, they bleat out "Mother" just like Bambi did after his mom died (naturally, my husband follows in his deepest "Come with Me, my son.") Then it's on to Dumb and Dumber. When the word both is required, it's "Both of 'em?" Also, "That John Denver is full of crap," and "DOn't worry, I'm a Limo Driver!" and so on. Now, it's movies that are R rated (for my teenagers, at least.) SOme of them, I haven't even seen, which leaves me sort of ostracized--you know, like you accidently crash a party for the Third Annual Convention of Nuclear Physicists. I guess our kids are submerged in so much they don't even learn how to talk on their own. My kids couldn't count past 12 for the longest, and it had to be that catchy "One two three foouuur five six seven eight niinne ten, eleven twelve" song from Sesame Street. Anyone out there experiencing the same?