Non-nucular family

[rhu]

Tani (my 5+3/4-year-old son) says SIRC-lee-ur for "circular" and par-TIK-lee-ur for "particular". Somehow I feel that this conserves parity in the universe.

And Alissa (my 3+1/2-year-old daughter) wrote her name for the first time this morning. Her esses need work :-)

Edited to add: a link to her name

Comments

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

Congratulations Alissa!

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Hm. Did the photo get reversed in the posting, or has she been learning to write Hebrew at the same time as English?

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's Hebrew-influenced; I think it's just natural 3.5-year-old's backwards writing.

[(Anonymous)]

actually, is she writing left-handed? it would make sense. i don't know how i originally wrote, but i taught myself backwards cursive in 7th grade, and found it really easy to do; it's as natural as writing left-to-right is if you're right-handed.

[(Anonymous)]

tani has at least 30 years before his first presidential speech to sort things out.

[violetcheetah.livejournal.com]

the anonymouses were me. i love it when lj logs me out for no reason.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

From a mailing list I'm on:

My twin boys (just turned five) have developed the linguistic habit of pronouncing words that end in "u-lance" or "u-lar as "lee-ance" or "lee-arr", as in "amb-lee-ance" and "reg-lee-ar". When I call them on it they can and do pronounce the words correctly, but will switch back to their pronunciation immediately.

Now I'm wondering if this sort of thing is common or predictable. Must research.