https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 19 Apr 2026 07:48:02 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-toddler-ever-go-through-a-stuttering-phase#post-610310 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 03:36:51 +0000 delight 610310@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Also a speech therapist here, and stuttering is quite common in the toddler years. I typically don't "treat" stuttering until kindergarten. Just keep an eye on it. For parents of toddlers who are stuttering, I recommend trying to speak slowly with your child and have a "no interrupting" policy in your house. This is especially good when there are siblings who tend to interrupt each other. Typically children grow out of this easy stuttering. However, if you notice your child looks like they are frustrated with their speaking or if their stuttering seems atypical, such as completely blocking on a word where they can't get any sound out, then a speech therapist can help. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-toddler-ever-go-through-a-stuttering-phase#post-604376 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:37:38 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 604376@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Honeybee: this very moment she's "reading" Frog and Toad to me at the dinner table from memory. Ah, the fun never ends! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-toddler-ever-go-through-a-stuttering-phase#post-603342 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:06:46 +0000 Honeybee 603342@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: That is sooooo cute! And so smart! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-toddler-ever-go-through-a-stuttering-phase#post-602990 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:19:33 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 602990@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Honeybee: New thing today. Now she's narrating her life like a story. So she'll say, "the girl was hungry for dinner. I want to eat, she cried!"</p> <p>Ah, now you are passive aggressively telling me you are hungry. I guess this one is actually pretty cute :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-toddler-ever-go-through-a-stuttering-phase#post-602476 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:00:27 +0000 Rubies 602476@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My friend's toddler went through a stuttering phase at the age of 3. It was really bad for about a month but it fixed itself! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-toddler-ever-go-through-a-stuttering-phase#post-602474 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:59:24 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 602474@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've seen a bunch of kids with stutters in speech therapy - most of the time they just think/speak too fast for their mouths to catch up with them!<br /> I think its hilarious when kids adopt accents/voices though. My best friend's little girl has picked up on a tv character's Australian accent, and totally mimics it all the time (she's almost 3). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-toddler-ever-go-through-a-stuttering-phase#post-602355 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:17:02 +0000 Honeybee 602355@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: It's frustrating to me when DD tells a story that makes me look like a monster. :) I'm like, wait, I didn't say it that way! Ah, kids! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-toddler-ever-go-through-a-stuttering-phase#post-600313 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:05:23 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 600313@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Honeybee: that's a good thought and if I think about it that was, it makes it less frustrating :)<br /> @HLK208: it's kind of cool to know it's a real thing that other kids do too!<br /> @MrsCB: that's pretty funny! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-toddler-ever-go-through-a-stuttering-phase#post-599865 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:01:45 +0000 ShootingStar 599865@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I still make fun of my brother over the fact that when he was little he insisted he knew Italian, which was really just him speaking in an awful and exaggerated Italian accent, lol. I guess kids mimicking accents is pretty common. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-toddler-ever-go-through-a-stuttering-phase#post-599808 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:51:50 +0000 HLK208 599808@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: ahh! DS started speaking with a southern accent out of no where! Glad he isn't the only one.</p> <p>DS was a late talker (early walker) and he still sometimes stutters a little bit at 3. More like, he begins a sentence and he can't think of the right word he wants to use so it takes more time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-toddler-ever-go-through-a-stuttering-phase#post-599637 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:25:29 +0000 Honeybee 599637@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: DD tells stories, too. It's incredible how much detail she can recall about things that have happened. I also noticed that lately she'll manipulate the story depending on how she feels about it. So if I was telling her not to do something, and that upset her, when she retells my warning she'll shout it and make mean faces. Then she'll pretend cry while she's saying her response ("And then I cried because I was so sad momma said no"). I don't know where she picked this up!</p> <p>Maybe Lala is mimicking partially in the same way, to control some of the conversation and give more information about her thoughts than what words alone can express? (Although the mimicking mother-talk sounds both adorable and frustrating, lol!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-toddler-ever-go-through-a-stuttering-phase#post-598631 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:12:00 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 598631@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@chopsuey119: Sadly I think she does. Not in a mean way though... more of an "I get you" way.</p> <p>When I've told her teacher some of the things she comes home and reports blow by blow, teacher is pretty surprised! I could walk you through some pretty intense two year old drama. Usually ends in, "And I told her that makes me sad. But we talked about it and then I was happy." </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-toddler-ever-go-through-a-stuttering-phase#post-598618 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:08:43 +0000 chopsuey 598618@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: Dang. Your Lala is such a smart girl! You must have so much fun with her :)<br /> I wouldn't be concerned then. I hope she doesn't talk like X in front of X though! Haha :D </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-toddler-ever-go-through-a-stuttering-phase#post-598612 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:06:52 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 598612@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@chopsuey119: When she says she's talking like {X}, I tend to believe her... though sometimes she'll do it without endorsing a friend's speaking style. But the fact that she recognizes and endorses that the stutter is from said friend in her class makes me think that she generally knows what she's doing.</p> <p>90% of the time she just speaks like herself. Since we've been on vacation, it's been more like 50%. Maybe she misses her friends a lot?</p> <p>I do think that when she gets WAY overexcited it could potentially be a little bit real. Occasionally I'll ask her, "Are you talking like {X}?" and she'll usually say yes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-toddler-ever-go-through-a-stuttering-phase#post-598599 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:02:25 +0000 chopsuey 598599@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: Do you just ignore it? Unless you're 100% sure she's mimicking one of her classmates, I would..? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-toddler-ever-go-through-a-stuttering-phase#post-598591 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:58:16 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 598591@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@chopsuey119: Maybe I should approach it like the stutter is real? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-toddler-ever-go-through-a-stuttering-phase#post-598589 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:57:08 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 598589@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Honeybee: It's adorable... I just want her to be her. Maybe she's going to be an actor or something. I swear she can even nail adult speak. It drives me the most crazy when she looks at me in and speaks in that mom voice saying things like, "Maybe you just need to take a minute..." or whatever mom thing she pulls out at that moment.</p> <p>I love it. I hate it ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-toddler-ever-go-through-a-stuttering-phase#post-598587 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:55:29 +0000 chopsuey 598587@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: HAHA Lala's so adorable :D I try not to show frustration too (but it's so hard sometimes). </p> <p>@Honeybee: Yeah I noticed it happens when DD is excited. I tell her to talk sloooow as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-toddler-ever-go-through-a-stuttering-phase#post-598575 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:52:38 +0000 Honeybee 598575@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD sometimes stutters. I think her brain just gets ahead of her mouth because once she finally gets through the word, wholr sentences come tumbling out. I just tell her to calm down and start over from the beginning.</p> <p>@Mrs. Jacks: Lala's so funny. :) She's just figuring out her own style! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-toddler-ever-go-through-a-stuttering-phase#post-598564 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:45:53 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 598564@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Lala does some really weird stuff. Right now she's doing a stuttering thing. I think she picked it up from one of the kids in her class and she's copying it. Sometimes she'll speak in an accent (one of her teachers has this accent). Last week she picked up the speaking style of a friend that she loves and would even note she was speaking like (friend).</p> <p>It kind of drives me mad. It's cute, but she's doing it intentionally... She'll especially pull out the baby talk or the stutter for people she doesn't know and then will finish off with "I'm a baby!" or "I'm (friend from school)!" </p> <p>I try not to let any frustration show with it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-toddler-ever-go-through-a-stuttering-phase#post-598543 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:39:47 +0000 chopsuey 598543@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO was an early talker and is bilingual.<br /> About 3 weeks ago she started stuttering.<br /> She'll draw out the first syllable of a word only when she's piecing 2+ words together. </p> <p>It lasted a good week and went away on its own. </p> <p>The stuttering returned a couple of days ago and comes and goes.<br /> I did some research and it's not uncommon so I'm not too concerned, but keeping an eye on it! </p>