Have you ever shortened words for kids to pronounce easily?? Like for example, chicken becomes chickaa– , banana becomes nana, and so on. How many of just say hippo or rhino instead of hippopotamus or rhinoceros?! 🙋🏻♀️Well I have done it! Now the problem with it is that the child carries it with them till they are in school! Which is not kinda cool 😕
Initially they can’t say some words and they themselves come up with the short version and we also take it up. Sometimes they’re so cute you don’t feel like correcting them 🙈 For instance, my daughter used to say “Goomomi” instead of Good morning and nobody wanted to correct her, it was the cutest thing to hear in the morning in the squeaky voice😍 Instead of correcting her, we all took it up, now everybody said Goomomi 🤷🏻♀️
Obviously when they grow up and start going to school, they are going to realize that what they are saying is wrong and would ultimately take up the right pronunciation.
Recently a very interesting thing happened at home. I was reading a book named Just like Daddy to my girls. It’s a very simple, beginner stage book with short and repetitive sentences and a very cute illustrations. Perfect for beginning readers. There is a part in the book where the little bear yawns a big wide yawn just like his daddy.
My younger daughter scans the picture after I read it and asks me “Maa, what’s that?”, pointing into his mouth. I was not sure what to tell her. I tried to say it’s her mouth and a yawn and all but it wasn’t satisfying. Then I said, “It’s the epiglottis. ” (My biology teacher is not gonna be very happy, because that’s the uvula and not the epiglottis 🤦🏼♀️)
And my daughter just repeated it perfectly. Epiglottis! I thought it would be difficult. But it wasn’t.
We think too much about the children. We should give them more appreciation and belief for their worth. They are capable of more than what we imagine!
So, offer them the full cup, let them decide whether they want to drink it full or half or make a new cupful itself.
Else if you are not an exercise person, you must go for a walk or a jog, whichever you are able do preferably where there are some trees or there’s the ocean/lake/river view. Not only are they pleasant views, they are spaces with good air that will help you greatly.
