Look at the big GREEN bus!

[ailbhe]

Linnea is deriving great pleasure from suddenly increasing the adjectives available to her. She correctly identifies red, yellow, green, blue, pink, purple and orange (as long as the orange isn't too red, the yellow isn't too orange, and the purple isn't too pink, but that's just nit-picking).

She absolutely loves to distinguish between the pink cup and the purple cup. "Daddy cup onange. Meemee cup pink. My cup purpoo. OK yes."

She has, at this present time, no obvious favourite colour. They're all pretty good.

Oh, and she has a word for "sofa" - "bed chair". How sensible of her.

At this stage, she often gets frustrated at things we can't understand - like that we've spooned her porridge from the wrong part of the bowl. Clearly it was important, but neither Rob nor I had any idea why. It wasn't just her being contrary to annoy us, because she was miserable, not mischievous. We know about mischievous. Her latest mischief is hairpulling, which isn't very amusing. Biting has just about totally stopped, we think, though she has threatened me a few times lately - threatening to bite gets exactly the same response as biting, mind you, so we expect that to stop too.

'Nea towsa RED.

Comments

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

since you are one of my models for parenting :) ....

what kind of response does biting get?

n.
curious!

[ailbhe]

She gets put in her room, when Rob's here. When Rob's not here, I just walk out of the room and ignore her, or remove her from the room and ignore her, depending - but if Rob's here he *can't* manage to ignore her unless she's in her room. She stays there until she's in a less naughty mood, then one of us goes and plays quietly with her to check she really is in a less naughty mood, then she gets brought back to the group. The point is that people who don't behave acceptably aren't accepted into our society. Which is pretty vicious, phrased that way, but that's how we do it.

And wow, I'm a model! Is that like "Sit up straight you have to be an example to your sister!"

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

doesn't sound viscious at all. and better she learn now than never.

a model is more like: i think the way you raise your kid is very sane, and i am gleaning tips from you for my future kid :) it's a compliment :)

n.

[ailbhe]

What we're doing doesn't sound vicious, but the "conform or else" bit of it isn't pleasant to think about.

I think I might be a little TOO aware of the parent-child power imbalance, perhaps.

Yeah, I knew what you meant :) but you're not the first to say it and I keep wondering - what if I'm wrong?! how many people will be feeding their kids stuff gleaned from me?! can't I have a Quality Assurance dept? Grading? WHERE'S MY PERFORMANCE REVIEW?!

[thereyougothen.livejournal.com]

Linnea is your performance review. (how's that for a scary thought?)

[tiggsybabes.livejournal.com]

I used to exclude Kate in the same way by either making her leave the room or leaving it myself. Now, at nearly 4, she goes in the naughty corner for 3 minutes & has to apologise before coming out. She threatens me with the hall (naughty corner) if she thinks I'm misbehaving!

[ailbhe]

Ah, but do you go?

A.
Remembering "Good hoovering Mummy, good girl."

[k425.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much what we do with Jack.

[supermouse.livejournal.com]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww...

And, on a more intellectual, detached level;

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww...

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Awwwwwwwww!!

And she's very sensible, to not call something orange if it has too much red...

[pauamma]

'Nea towsa RED.

(Lin)nea toys are red? Toes? Towels?

[iuil.livejournal.com]

I read it as "trousers" :-). But then my 3 year old still calls them "Trow-ers".

[ailbhe]

Trouser. Trousa. She has twouble with Rs.

[pauamma]

Ah, yes. It was the missing initial R that threw me off.

[jentifred.livejournal.com]

Oh, and she has a word for "sofa" - "bed chair". How sensible of her.

Don't you love the stuff they make up? Bridget recently encountered mashed yams. She declared them "pumpkin potatoes".

[ailbhe]

But of course! That's so OBVIOUS. Isn't it?

[lovingboth]

Awww.

The 'wrong part of the bowl' bit is part of trying to make sense of things, putting them in the Right Order. So she expects you to follow one particular pattern of feeding her porridge, every time. Does she complain if you change part of a favourite story?

[ailbhe]

The strange thing was that she insisted we start from the *middle* of the bowl, which we never do because it's hottest. We always start from the edge.

"to not call something orange if it has too much red..."

[feetnotes.livejournal.com]

there are still some colours - like "saturn yellow" - that i see as shades of green, albeit very yellowy green (they're definitely not green-tinged yellows). the same thing can happen over shades of turquoise; and over malachite, the green of weathered copper domes & spires, that some people claim is a shade of blue...(*g*)

linnea's learning the colours from her parents, friends & other raletions, both their names and the boundaries of the shades we apply these names to (there may well be some stuff on the wwweb about how babies learn to distinguish between colours, and what colours they can actually perceive - it's a fascinating area); i don't think ailbhe'n'rob'll have problems agreeing if she sees which side of the lines some shades lie a little differently from them.

Re: "to not call something orange if it has too much red..."

[ailbhe]

Rob and I have arguments over blue, green and purple, sometimes. I, of course, am right.

re: "I, of course, am right."

[feetnotes.livejournal.com]

well, naturally... *g*

what failings regarding his appreciation of the colour purple do your ah, "discussions" concern?

Re: "I, of course, am right."

[ailbhe]

He's never even read "The Colour Purple" actually.

re: "never even read The Colour Purple."

[feetnotes.livejournal.com]

this does seem perhaps a little pedestrian, perhaps; but it is a rectifiable oversight...