Here she is, doing her stuff in practice.
Here's the song - those of you with similar age grandchildren might it a good distraction for them, although be warned that I find this song going round and round in my head long after he's gone home.
22 Jul 2016
Grandchildren News
The school holidays have just come and gone, but in the first week of the holidays, Granddaughter A and her Cheerleading and Dance team travelled to the Gold Coast in Queensland to take part in a competition.
Here she is, doing her stuff in practice.
And her team won in their class!
Grandson B has discovered Youtube.
He's just turned 2 and can't talk yet, but he's learnt to navigate his way on his mum's phone to find Youtube and then search her history record to find his favourite song.
Here's the song - those of you with similar age grandchildren might it a good distraction for them, although be warned that I find this song going round and round in my head long after he's gone home.
Finally, Grandma C made a cake to celebrate a birthday last week.
And another naughty boy waiting to eat the cake.
Here she is, doing her stuff in practice.
Here's the song - those of you with similar age grandchildren might it a good distraction for them, although be warned that I find this song going round and round in my head long after he's gone home.
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He is a clever boy isn't he?
ReplyDeleteYes, but very late in learning to talk. His brother and sister both can talk before 2 years old.
DeleteIn his book “The Einstein Syndrome: Bright Children Who Talk Late”, American economist, scholar and author Thomas Sowell mentioned the following late-talkers who became prominent – mathematician Julia Robinson, musicians Arthur Rubenstein and Clara Schumann, and physicists Albert Einstein, Edward Teller and Richard Feynman.
DeleteThanks, Prof - good to hear. He's slowly coming along, though. He can say "Mum", and just last Tuesday, "apple".
DeleteSowell himself has a late-talking child, and has written a book called "Late-talking children", first published in 1997. Many brilliant people were late talkers, e.g. the inventor Thomas Edison and the Indian mathematical genius Srinivasan Ramanujan.
DeleteHow do you find such books? What made you interested in "late talking" children?
DeleteOn the internet. There's a common folklore that Einstein couldn't talk until he was 4. Though this is not proven, it is accepted that his speech development was slow as a child. I was curious about other known cases of brilliant people who were late talkers and about how much is understood or misunderstood about this phenomenon.
DeleteThe internet, to me, is one of the best things to happen in my lifetime. Just love it.
DeleteTotally agree with you. But I both love and hate the internet. Love it when I get what I want. Hate it when I don't.
DeleteCongrats to your grand-daughter, keep it up! Impressive! Who's 40th is that? So did your handsome grandson get to eat the cake? Ya...I'm like grandson B, always on youtube but mine, though mostly songs and music, is definitely way beyond gummy bears. :D
ReplyDeleteThank you. It was my daughter-in-law's birthday - the mother of these 3 little characters. I also quite enjoy You Tube - quite a few instructional videos there. For example, I learnt to express my dog's anal glands from Youtube. The vet would charge me $25 to do that each time (several times a year).
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