He said "Dada!"

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Last week my 6.5-month-old (now he`s 7 months old as of today or something) was talking to me on the phone and I was talking to him about his daddy, like I do all the time, and he said "Dada"! It`s his first word as far as I know. At least his dad said he never said any other words yet. Then he started saying it again and again, like 6 times, and I had my relatives at my grandmother`s house where I was listen one by one and he said it every once in a while and they heard him say "Dada". At first, after he had just said it once, his dad said he was probably just making random sounds like he usually does and that it was just a coincidence especially since he never said "Daddy" or "dada" to him, but then when he said it again when his daddy was in the room he admitted "Yes, he said it."


My parwents don`t even know what my first word was, lol. But my dad said that once when my grandmother was changing my diaper and said "ooh, you s**t in your diapers!" and then I tried to say "s**t" and they said "OMG she`s trying to say it!"

Congrats

Did you not expect it? Babies are supposed to do that around 6-8 months. So he is right about on schedule.

He's actually quite early - 12 months is average Dada is the typical first word. I think it may be why its the nick name for fathers.

No for most kids words start poping up around the age of the little boy in question. Thats wonderful that he's talking on time I hope he keeps it up. Best of luck and best of health to your little one ana.

7-12 months
The sound of your baby's babbling changes. This is because it now includes more consonants, as well as long and short vowels. He or she uses speech or other sounds (i.e., other than crying) in order to get your attention and hold on to it. And your baby's first words (probably not spoken very clearly) have appeared! ("MaMa", "Doggie", "Night Night", "Bye Bye")

http://speech-language-therapy.com/devel2.htm

I remembered it as 6 months. I looked up a site on the internet, and it said that things like dada happened at 8 months, and that sounds that MIGHT be like dada happened at 6 mo. Oh well, I was talking around 10 months, and the milestone for that is supposed to be like 2.

Oh well, we can agree he isn't BEHIND.

You would be wise to make yourself aware that he was in fact referring to the post-modern art movement in which he had taken interest.

Absolutely, 2ukenker!!

Also, happily, many parents interpret random babbling of consonants (baba, dada) as words. This tendency nurtures word meaning for the baby - and thats all language is: agreement of the random asignation of meaning to verbalization (further complicated by syntax).

Oh if it were that easy!! Wisdom and knowledge are sometimes taken for synonyms, but it seems to me that too much knowledge is a smoke screen for a lack of wisdom...

That site said that, at 8 months, the term dada may not refer to a PARTICULAR individual or sex.

BTW Knowledge is basically facts, like what you can glean in a book. Wisdom is having the ability to apply it. Computers have LOTS of knowledge, but NO wisdom. Intelligence, in a way, is a combination of the two.

I agree, those nurturing the child encourage meaningful connections between initial babling and ultimate meaning, but in cultures that do not speak to a child until he or she has something to say still raise well spoken children.



Ha! You must haveloads of wisdom to go with your knowledge to explain this so clearly!!