My baby's 1st words were "momma"& "emma", we found out "emma" is what she calls daddy, we try to teach her daddy is "dadda" even show her a pic and repeat it like I did to teach her "momma", does anyone else know an effective method to teach her this?
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The only thing that worked with my daughter was for my husband and I to start calling each other mommy and daddy. Otherwise, she insisted on calling us by our first names.
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"Just wait" ........ Before long you'll be asking us tips on how to get her to stop!
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She will do it in her own time my sisters daughter used to call her by her name instead of mummy but in the end she did start to call her mummy ,by the way is that photo of your baby?if so she is gorgeous i love baby girls.
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hi, chiism1, babieeeeeeeeeeeeee ... cute kid! ... just wait ... before long, she'll be saying daddy and making sentences soon ... yay! ... ^_^
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Relax, she'll figure it out and a lot more words too.
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don't pressure your child, she is a baby, a toddler. She will learn to say dadda and more!
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They will say what they want to say and will experiment a lot. "Dadda" has become common because it is an easy consonant, repeatable and used with the personal vowel, "ah," which is intrinsic. Also, the "m" sound creates "mama." In some cultures, mothers call their little girls, "Mama" and they learn to repeat it. She will listen and eventually get it all straight. In the meantime, enjoy the cute words she creates - and write them in a journal to remind her of when she grows up. Enjoy this stage. It is precious.
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They say during this stage to treat her like she's saying the "right" word. For example, if she calls milk "mog", then when she says "Mog!" hand her her cup and say "Here's your milk". So, if she says "Emma!" Daddy should pick her up and say "Daddy/Papa/whatever's here". Eventually she'll get it.
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may be it is bit hard for her to pronounce the letter d right now.. so why don't u try to teach her to call you "papa" ?
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There's this story about the child who didn't speak until way, way late at which point he said, clearly 'The oatmeal is cold'. His parents stared at him in amazement until his mother asked 'Why have you never spoke before?' 'The oatmeal was never cold before', he answered.
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I think that some kids just have a word they associate with a certain person or thing. I knew a little boy, 3 years old, whose mom had a friend named Lois. Little Mike called her Ralph. He refused to call her anything else no matter what they tried. They even tried getting him to say it by syllables. "Say Lo" "Lo". "Say Is". "Is". "Say Lois". "Ralph".
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When docors, teachers, speech therapists, etc. ask how many words your child is using, they mean words that your child uses on a consistent basis to represent the same object or person each time. For example, if your child calls every single cat she sees "meow", then that is her word for cat. If your child calls cookies "popatours', then that is her word for cookies. She has found a word that she likes for "daddy". When you refer to him, you can call him daddy, or you can adopt her new word for him as well. It won't really affect her learning. As far as using pictures, that is a very effective method in increasing babies' vocabulary, so you would be on the right track if you wanted to teach her the "correct' word. However, using it yourself as you speak to daddy will help much more.
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My baby can call me emma all she wants
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