How can you tell your baby knows?

[Vidyut]

Lol celeste @ Tutankhamun Karma for your little darling!

[Kappasweet]

My boobakins knows his colors! I show him colors (those paint color strips from lowes) and name them, and for the important ones I taped them to a flashcard and wrote the color on the flashcard.  Yesterday, he said they were all "yellow," so I gave up.  Tonight, he picked up one of my husband's CDs, it was bright red, so I asked him what color and he said "red."  I found a few toys around and asked him the colors and he named them as well.  I just wanted to share that, I am so happy he will know his colors before age 2!

[hypatia]

I'm bringing this topic back again to ask for your advice. My daughter was not an early talker, she had a rather limited vocabulary until age 16m or so-although we could communicate fairly well as she would answer questions by yes or no, point, make up sounds which she uses consistently to name something etc..

Now that she says many words, I sometimes ask her questions-not necessarily to check if she knows, more to hear her 'phrase' an answer, weather right or wrong.

There is a pattern that i've noticed for a while now. If I ask her 'what color is your shoe?', the second she hears 'color', without even looking, she answers 'red'. (she can only say red and blue so far). If I ask her 'How many grapes do you want', she says 'two' (the only numbers she can pronounce) as soon as she hears 'how many'. As soon as she sees letters, she points at them by saying either a,i or u (the ones she pronounces well). If she points at books, all written words are 'papa' (the only word she sight read by pronuncing it) etc etc..
At 11m, she was able to point to Australia on a map. These days, if i dare asking her where Australia is, she'll point anywhere on the map, staring at me, not at the map... and I also remember that the few times I asked her to pick between 2 flashcards, she would point either left or right, as soon as I said 'where..(is the word xxx)'

As you can guess, playing memory games with her (such as showing an apple and a dog, turning them other and asking her to turn over the dog) are impossible as she does not let me finish, being too excited to turn anything over. Or if she does, she always turns over the card on the right, etc..

I must add i do not ask her those type of questions everyday...  (as I know many of you would say: stop asking her  )

Have your children ever done this? Because to answer my previous request: I stil can't tell what/if my baby knows.

[patreiche]

Colin is pretty much the same way. He always wants two. The color is always blue. I notice him practicing things on his own. Songs, counting, abcs etc. He usually does not answer questions. He only asserts himself when he knows something for sure. Colin is very active and hard to teach anything to. He learns more by doing. He likes playing with flashcards though. He learns the lessons more by hearing so his vocabulary is increasing but I am not sure we are making much progress on reading. I am happy if he is learning and increasing his language skills whether it is verbal or reading. He does seem to be quite interested in music so I can't wait for little music. He learned a lot from the musical instrument file with sound. He learned the sounds of the instruments while he is busy doing whatever. I get maybe two minutes with him actually looking at the computer so I have to use them wisely.

BTW for those having trouble with colors 2.5 years is about the age they start taking off with colors. It is a hard concept for them to grasp. Not sure why.

[Joha]

Well, with Valerie is kind of funny because as soon as you ask her she looks at the right one and then is like she second guess herself. Sometimes, she ends up giving the right one sometimes she doesn't. Since I don't want her to stress about it, I rarely "test" her (I try to do it as a game). Also, is like whenthe first time I do it, she can get them 100% right, but as soon daddy comes and I want her to show him, sehe is not interested. Same thing with him, she does it for him and when I come into the picture that is the end of it. With letters and its phonics, she is great! We can be anywhere and she starts making the phonic for whatever letter and we look and there it is! She lvoes letters and its sounds. She loves animals and can do the sounds they make. She never says their names though. However, the other day she was looking at a book and making the sounds and all the suden she saw a goose, and she said "duck" 

Just yesterday, she kept saying "big", "big", I looked and there was a book that has the word "BIG" on the cover. Later at night I asked hr in fron of daddy and she read the word. That was very nice. Ocne the camara was out, that was the end of it 

Today I decided to stop with LM for a while. She is not into it and she says "no, no". We had already done Doman with flash cards, so I may pull those out again.

I guess I just trust she knows and when less I expect it she shows off. I think I'll stick to the "no testing" because I think she gests stress about it and if she doesn't get it right, I second guess myslef if this is worth it (I know it is, don't take me wrong), but I get a bit discourage.

[PY]

Catalina started to recognize words at 14 months old..I always remember her first word was gorilla..she saw the word and made the sign..it was cute!!I think teaching her sign language open a new way of comunication with her, it was really easy to understand her once she started recognizing words, I usually test her to see if she is learning and reforce it. I personal think is important for me to test her otherways I can't go forward if she doesn't know it.I have to work on the same on different ways until she learns it. Like I say I always knew if she is learning when she signed the word to me.
Now she is 24 months old,her vocabulary has improved a lot, she speaks like a parrot but I have still some problems undertanding her(sometimes), I ask her to do the sign, so I can understand what she needs or wants. Signing with her and her father help us to build a new fun way to express our feelings and needs. I think it's pretty amazing. It is just like another language for us.
About the colors, she actually loves performing(I have to hide the camara otherways she will stop) she loves colors,animals and shapes(her favorite is heart). So far she can recognize 12 colors in spanish and english. I am going to start teaching her the pigment of each basic color. There are some different activities children love doing with colors. I will write some more ideas for sharing later.
good luck.

[vanichezhiyan]

I have a basic doubt. Why dont many people remember their life before the age of three?
I really dont know if our child will remember all those that we teach now!!!!
Our family was settled in a place where people dont speak our native.My brother was 1year then and i was around 4yrs. We lived there for more than 5years. Even now i'm so fluent in that language.But my brother who was speaking foreign language until he was 6 years,now could not even speak a word. Why is this so???

[sarahjean]

Our first daughter, at six months would point to or grab the correct card. Around a year she started to tell us in words what was on the card. Even our little one at three months will stare intently at the correct card when asked.

If they're watching while you are flashing, their tiny little sponge brains are taking it in!

[Jean Low]

yea vanichezhiyan, I'm wondering too! Through my observation on my daughter, she couldn't speak Cambodian anymore simply because my helpers went back to their country for just 1.5mths??? Why is it so? Why she couldn't recognize not many words though I'd been carrying the flash cards session everyday with her and also YBCR few mths ago??? She seems enjoyed it normally... Can anyone can tell me what has been gone wrong with her???

[Niniedney]

Testing def has to be done in a fun way, a game!! Dakota LOVES to show off. If someone new comes over she offers to show them what she knows. If I ask her to show me something and she doesn't want to I drop it right away. And sometimes she acts silly and points to or says the wrong answer, but I can tell she is being silly.
She knew her colors at around 18 mos. She hardly ever gets them wrong. And always offers to tell me what color something is. But she doesn't always seem to like math. Reading and any encyclopedic knowledge she loves. But math is not for her. I guess they are all different. I like the paint color strip idea. I will look into that for more complex colors.
And I have heard that a lot of LO end up not wanting to do anything but crawl and walk when they first learn how. So incorperating the testing into a game where they need to crawl or walk to the answer is awesome : )
and we loved doing sign language. I think it helped her to speak sooner. Dakota was putting sentences together at 18 mos. And can now hold a conversation with any adult and almost everyone can understand her.
Anyway, I think testing is fine as long as you both are having fun

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