When the kids were barely talking, Paul was watching me
clean out a butternut squash. He pointed at the seeds and asked, “Suhderz eat
that?” I asked him to repeat himself a couple times, and then told him, “I’m
sorry, honey; I don’t understand that word.”
Paul sighed, and then rallied himself and looked into my
eyes with great intensity and said, firmly, “Suhderz eat nuts. Suhderz eat
that?” “Oh, SQUIRRELS,” I said as Paul nodded happily.
So, Paul had linked the abstract concepts of seeds in a
squash to nuts, made the association of nuts to squirrels, theorized that if
squirrels eat nuts, they might eat seeds, but may not, and then found a way to
help me understand the word his little toddler mouth couldn't form.
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