Most of us adults have been exposed to Peanuts comic strips and cartoons since we were children. So by the time we become parents, we know exactly what to expect each time another Charlie Brown holiday special hits the air. But for our kids, it’s a whole other story. When our four-year-old daughter Sammy watched […]
Month: November 2014
In our last post, “Why mispronouncing words is good for your kid,” we talked about how flubbing up all sorts of speech sounds is a totally normal part of your child’s language development. We even showed you this pretty cool chart that lets you know at which ages many common mispronunciations tend to disappear: What […]
Kids say the darnedest things. And when they’re still little, they usually say the most poorly enunciated things too. The guy who wrote all those Family Circus comic strips back in the day made his entire living off this fact. Pasghetti and meat bulbs? Sounds like the perfect punch line to me! But sometimes parents […]
Today’s question might just be the very best question the Doctor + Dad have ever received. A competitive edge seems to have just popped up in my preschool-aged daughter and her buds. Like who’s the tallest, fastest, strongest, etc. What’s the deal with that? – Ashleigh Well Ashleigh, we know what you mean. Just like […]