This is sort of nifty...and crazy...all at the same time!
I discovered she could do this one day last week while collating something and reading to myself out loud. What a little nutball. Now she's doing this all the time...one to ten.
FYI: I have no idea why this video is in black and white. It's a little creepy...
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Totally Freaky!!!
You faked it, right? You took this video and then dubbed in the midget voice. Right? Right?
Watch out! It's going to be a real challenge keeping the upper hand with that little precocious firecracker.
Yeah, she's already a little handfull! Such a smarty pants...
The day after I read this I heard Timothy say 'two-three-four' (in Hungarian, not English), so I calmed down. My child is NOT retarded after all! :-)
It is so hard to determine when they actually know certain things. Timothy, being surronded by older kids, repeats a lot, that I have no idea if he actually KNOWS. Like he's been using first person singular, but only sometimes, so I tend to think that it's only repetition. In Waldorf they want you to watch for when a child starts using I for him- or helself. I find that very difficult, because T. has been saying "I" as an exclamation that he wants to do a certain thing (and I am NOT to help him), and yet he says 'Timothy wants apple'.
It's the same, I think, with numbers. To him it's a song, a rhyme... He is fully aware of the concept of "other" (shoe, doll, etc.) but I don't think he knows the concept two, three, etc...
No, Freyja is just freakish, and Timothy is normal! Ha!
Yeah, I know what you mean. It's hard to say how long the things they know are being processed in their heads before they say them, and even then, if they really understand the entire concept. The day after Tom caught Freyja counting on video, we were in her playroom (more on that later) and she was taking blocks out of a box one at a time, and tossing them while counting them, so it was really only then that I realized that she understood the concept of counting, at least that much, rather than it just being something that she heard and repeated. The same thing goes for using the word "me" and "you". For the longest time she would point at a picture of herself and say "me", but it was only recently that I could tell she really understood what that meant...that "me" to her meant "Freyja". It's all so crazy...
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