https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:44:41 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1821446 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:01:19 +0000 .twist. 1821446@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was amazed when he took his little teapot and poured "tea" into a tea cup and then drank the "tea" from the cup using the handle of the cup. </p> <p>No one taught him that! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1821393 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:41:55 +0000 skipra 1821393@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is almost 2 but not a great talker yet. He did have strange choices for his first words - would say broom before consistently saying mama! The latest thing I don't know that it is surprising but I thought it was funny. We were all in the car and the baby was crying so DS told him to "be quiet!" He has never said that before or since but I'm sure it's not the last time we'll hear it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1821350 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:23:16 +0000 sandy 1821350@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: how could I forget - it's not everyday that you know someone that can play a piano piece by ear - and contemporary songs on top of that!!! I have ZERO musical ability and am so jealous of people with those skills/abilities! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1821316 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:12:08 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 1821316@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sandy: I am impressed at your amazing memory! I can't believe that you remembered I am a music person. :)</p> <p>And secretly, I kind of hope she wants to pursue music like her mama. ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820797 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 07:06:35 +0000 Charm54 1820797@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Dd is 11 months old, and when you ask her "What does Max (our dog) say?" She goes "Woof". Then if you say "What does Elmo say?" She goes "La la la" (from Elmo's song). No one really taught her that so I'm surprised she can say it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820794 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 06:53:56 +0000 travellingbee 1820794@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The other day we asked our 17 month old, Where is L? And he pointed at himself and said "Me!" Where did he get this concept of ME? We've never taught him that! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820789 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 06:48:25 +0000 swurlygurl 1820789@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This isn't a crazy word, per se, but I was counting something out to her, and after I got to 4 she screamed 'FIVE!' at me. Whaaat?! We've never really worked on counting?! I do count to her sometimes, but never try to get her to count to me. (18 months and very few words, so I liked this one :) ) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820785 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 06:34:53 +0000 Bao 1820785@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She surprises me a lot. The latest being she pulled out a green marker and said "green!" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820783 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 06:28:06 +0000 oliviaoblivia 1820783@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD learned "squirrel" about two months before she learned "no". The words on her list are bizarre and unpredictable. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820780 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 06:16:03 +0000 Silva 1820780@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well, she is only 16 months, but the words she learns boggle my mind. Like green bean. Why is that one of the 35 or so words you choose to learn? You don't even really like them, unless we are at the garden... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820778 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 06:13:31 +0000 looch 1820778@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Same with the construction vehicles, I have learned all about telescoping booms and stabilizers. I had no idea, lol.</p> <p>What also surprises me is that he can do math in his head, unlike me. He doesn't have to count on his fingers, he knows it is 1-5 of the objects and understands the concept of "less" when you take things away. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820730 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 00:03:54 +0000 sandy 1820730@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were in a summer reading program. The theme for one class was colors - my LO has been able to identify colors for a long time. She also knows a lot of sight words and has most of her books memorized, but it's not like we drill her. </p> <p>So at the class they had a worksheet with little mice and each mouse had a color written below it for the kids to color the correct color. I asked my LO what color the first mouse should be and she correctly told me "red" and picked up the red marker and colored it. This went on with blue, yellow, orange, green and purple (her favorite color. She has seen these words so many times that she can identify the words and pick the correct color.</p> <p>Then we get to black and I think she's going to tell me blue b/c it's a "B" word...she tells me "black"...and again she surprises me by correctly telling me the next mouse is pink (again, I thought she was going to say purple b/c it's a "P" but somehow she knew)...and again she surprises me by knowing the next mouse is grey. I am just kind of shocked b/c I have never worked on this with her...I had no idea she could just read these colors. I thought there was no way she would know the last mouse...so I say "do you know what color this mouse is supposed to be? It's kind of a hard one." And she says right away "white." I was just floored. </p> <p>She was 2 years 8 months last month when we were in the class. She was by far the youngest in the class, but was the one kid who could read all the colors on the page. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820728 Sun, 17 Aug 2014 23:53:57 +0000 sandy 1820728@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: that is so super impressive!!! Love that song BTW. Looks like she inherited your musical talent! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820727 Sun, 17 Aug 2014 23:48:31 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 1820727@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She knows the lyrics to "All my Lovin" by The Beatles, verbatim! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820726 Sun, 17 Aug 2014 23:48:26 +0000 JennyD 1820726@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Totem pole!</p> <p>And the difference between antlers and horns! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820717 Sun, 17 Aug 2014 23:32:05 +0000 Mama Bird 1820717@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS has been obsessed with scooters for months, so my mom finally bought him one of his own. We took the new scooter on vacation, still in the box. Turned out it needed some assembly. DS surprised me by bursting into tears when he heard: "Oh no, we don't have a screwdriver to put this together!" Then shocked me even more when he got off the scooter and stopped crying after I said "Daddy will find someone with a screwdriver while you nap!" He's usually all about right now - I had no clue he has that much patience or knows what a screwdriver is :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820600 Sun, 17 Aug 2014 21:08:22 +0000 JoyfulKiwi 1820600@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm surprised by all the random things he says: animal names, "ready...set...go!", talking about things that happened hours ago, singing songs he learned from daycare without prompting. He's constantly amazing me! </p> <p>A gem from yesterday: "toot. Toot on daddy. From butt." </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820582 Sun, 17 Aug 2014 20:44:43 +0000 irene 1820582@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Strange title huh.... What are some of the words / things that you are surprised your toddler knows at his age, that you probably didn't know when you were his/her age, or didn't even know until now? </p> <p>LO is obsessed with trains, so we bought many books about trains. Some of the books teach about the name of each car (engine, tender, hopper car, gondola car, caboose), the different roles on the train (engineer, fireman, brakesman, conductor), and even the actual parts of the steam engine (I had no idea what pistons are until recently!). LO isn't into the actual components of the steam engine yet, but he definitely know about tender, caboose, engineer...etc. that to be honest, I had no idea what they are called until now. </p> <p>And also, I didn't know what the different machineries (excavator, bulldozer, crane truck, cement mixer...etc) are called in a construction site. I wouldn't know if LO didn't have a great interest in the topic, and we just learned about them together. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-butt-breast-penis-vagina-didwill-you-teach-your-lo-the-proper-words#post-1153753 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:44:36 +0000 sorrycharlie 1153753@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@TurtleDoves: lol seriously! Like we are all grown adults, your vagina's on the inside, vulva on the outside people! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-butt-breast-penis-vagina-didwill-you-teach-your-lo-the-proper-words#post-1153742 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:38:58 +0000 CupQuakeWalk 1153742@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sorrycharlie: I.die. hhahahahaha</p> <p>I plan on using proper arabic words for them. That way, no one knows what were saying anyways. In arabic, there aren't "child words" for private parts. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-butt-breast-penis-vagina-didwill-you-teach-your-lo-the-proper-words#post-1153736 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:35:28 +0000 sorrycharlie 1153736@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I use bum!</p> <p>We will use the correct terms for everything else. As an adult it irks me when people mix up vagina and vulva. So, not decided on how to tackle that with a toddler yet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-butt-breast-penis-vagina-didwill-you-teach-your-lo-the-proper-words#post-1153734 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:32:08 +0000 Cole 1153734@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Since I work with other people's children I find I have to toe the line carefully sometimes since different families deal with this differently. My general tactic after I run it by the parents is to tell them the correct name and then say that some people don't like hearing the names of private parts out in public so we use bottom and chest when we are talking near other people. It seems to work well since then they have the ability to describe a bigger problem and know that some conversations are best not had in line at the grocery store! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-butt-breast-penis-vagina-didwill-you-teach-your-lo-the-proper-words#post-1153684 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:56:16 +0000 ZombieBullfrogHoller 1153684@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I never knew that people consider "butt" inappropriate. :P We plan on using proper names for everything. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-butt-breast-penis-vagina-didwill-you-teach-your-lo-the-proper-words#post-1153667 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:41:49 +0000 shopaholic 1153667@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I know DH will want to use nicknames, but I think we should teach the proper names maybe around 2 years old?<br /> Before that I'd probably say bum bum/booty/butt-butt.<br /> I'm trying to figure out a discreet nickname for breasts since I don't want her shouting out boobies or breasts when she wants to nurse! And need something for vagina. "v" maybe? </p> <p>@anbanan15: That's a good point! I have read that before too!<br /> @TemperanceBrennan: Excellent point!<br /> @shinymama: Peanut, no peanut! :) I think we'll start with this when we teach about boys maybe!<br /> @wonderstruck: How nerve-wracking! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-butt-breast-penis-vagina-didwill-you-teach-your-lo-the-proper-words#post-1153590 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:44:22 +0000 Ra 1153590@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JoJoGirl: I also use tush! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-butt-breast-penis-vagina-didwill-you-teach-your-lo-the-proper-words#post-1153482 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:41:27 +0000 MsMini 1153482@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We use "bum", and he knows/we use the real words for everything else (penis, foreskin, scrotum, breasts, nipples, vulva, vagina). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-butt-breast-penis-vagina-didwill-you-teach-your-lo-the-proper-words#post-1153478 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:39:17 +0000 artsyfartsy 1153478@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Someone mentioned to me not long ago (can't remember who. Sorry! Come out and let me know if it was you) that they were teaching their LO the medical terms, (penis, vagina, etc.) so that if they were ever (god forbid) abused, they would know. Since the abuser would most likely teach them words like wee-wee or something else. So if they start calling it something else it would send up a red flag. I will probably do The same.</p> <p>As for the word for butt? I don't know. Probably just butt. Lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-butt-breast-penis-vagina-didwill-you-teach-your-lo-the-proper-words#post-1153449 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:26:23 +0000 Mrsbells 1153449@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For butt I say bottom to my LO, In time she will learn all the real words but I for now I will just teach her to say "private parts" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-butt-breast-penis-vagina-didwill-you-teach-your-lo-the-proper-words#post-1153399 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:05:44 +0000 lamariniere 1153399@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JoJoGirl: we also say tushy!</p> <p>DS says boobs. And seriously, coming out if a 2-yo mouth, it's pretty funny. We also use zizi for penis, it's the cutesy word the French use </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-butt-breast-penis-vagina-didwill-you-teach-your-lo-the-proper-words#post-1153321 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:33:54 +0000 wonderstruck 1153321@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We'll teach the correct terms. I get that some people think the little nicknames are cute, but to be honest, I just don't really see the point. Although some parts are private (which they will be taught!) I don't really believe in making up names for them like the real words are too embarrassing or something - I don't want my kids to feel like that about any part of their body. I mean, I wouldn't call his arm anything different than his arm, you know what I mean? </p> <p>I was babysitting for my 2 year old nephew about a year ago and he came out of his room crying and telling me that his 'ting ting' hurt. I had ZERO clue what he was talking about. It turned out that a string from his underwear had come loose and was wrapped around his penis, but it sure would've been faster/easier to deal with if I had known what the heck he was saying! And +1 on what PPs have said about sexual predators as well. Really good article on it here that pretty much sums up my thoughts on it: <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/23/1909631/kids-identify-genitalia-prevent-crimes/" rel="nofollow">http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/23/1909631/kids-identify-genitalia-prevent-crimes/</a> </p>