Originally posted: 10/06/2008
My children feed off each other's speech impediments. It's a horrible vicious circle. I blame my husband...I'm not sure why, but I want him involved in this somehow. My daughter had certain words she said wrong. Because it took her so long to begin speaking, she was older when she started saying full sentences and it is very hard to break the habit of these words by then. When my son started talking, he picked up her odd pronunciations. Now, she's graduated from speech therapy, he's fully into it, but still can't lose the pronunciations of said words and she feeds into it by continuing to say the words wrong because she hears him do it. Literally, they use each other for excuses as to why they say words wrong, as in...."I'm not saying it wrong mommy, that's how my (sister/brother) says it." Will the circle ever end?? Let me give you some interesting examples......examples that my mom and I have laughed at to the point of tears some days.....right in front of the children.
Skunk--Stunk
Scorpion--Sporkian
Porcupine--Porkapine
Portapotty--Porkapotty
Let me just say that having a 9 year old tell you that she needs to use the porkapotty is hilarious in itself. Then she makes announcements that begin like this....."I know how to say PORKAPOTTY now guys! It's porkapotty....wait a minute....is it?" Oh honey, it's a good thing you're so cute.
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