At what age do boys generally speak in two word sentences?

Question

My little girl was saying phrases at 11 months. I know that verbally, boys are a little bit slower. My daughter was very quick with everything though, she sounds out words to read and she is not even three yet. Just wondering what the normal learning curve was for boys

I don't mean that boys are stupid, by about age 5 they balance out. My little boy was walking at 9 months, way ahead of my little girl. I just know that statistically girls have a bigger and faster vocabulary!

Answer 1

I have three kids, one girl(middle child) and two boys. I have also heard/read that girls verbal skills tend to be better and develop earlier. It seems seems that your daughter is ahead of the game. Sounding out words at (almost)three is extremely advanced. I think that everything our first borns do is so new that sometimes the comparison is biased torward the first child (at least, for me it can be). Still, my first born was writing in paragraphs in kinder and my daughter who is now in kinder is average when it comes to reading/writing (but, she is socially more advanced with a huge creative side.) Both my boys have better verbal skills than my daughter did comparatively, so in my families case gender didn't seem to play a role, it seemed to have more to do with their birth order (and also, she had painful reflux for seven months out of her first year)
I don't think there is a general rule for when boys talk in two word sentences but, i would say between one and two years old. That is a big chunk of time but, they all do things at their own pace. I know two moms whose boys didn't put small sentences together until closer to three. One of those little boys is now five and he and my five year old daughter's verbal skills are pretty much in line.

Answer 2

According to statistics, 18 months is the average age for children to talk in two word phrases. Now, do not get hung up on this because some children do not even start talking until age 3, and this is fine, as long as they are talking by 3. Yes, there is a difference between boys and girls, girls typically talk sooner and more clear than boys. My niece did not say a word other than mama, baba, dadda until the age of two, then exactly two weeks after turning two, started talking in sentence. Albert Einstein did not utter a word until the age of three, although he was reading at the age of two according to his mother, he would pick up books and she said he would follow the sentence with his eyes and turn the pages, and laugh, and make faces. Some of it has nothing to do with not having the ability to talk but rather their fine motor skills have not fully developed. This meaning the fine muscles in their tongue have not fully developed. Children like adults have their strenghts and weaknesses, everychild, even kids with severe disability will have something they excell and something they lag behind in. Find what your childs advancement is at an early age and work with them at it. My daughter excelled in hand eye cordenation and is very cordinated, she was holding her own head when born, holding her own bottle at six weeks, and so on. We bought her a basketball hoop for toddlers and she was making baskets before the age of 1. She did however not speak clearly until the age of two. I always spoke clear with her and no baby talk, meaning improper grammer. You have become a mature parent when you do not compare your child to others and realize they are human also, and they too have strenghts and weaknesses.

Answer 3

My two oldest boys were both between 2 and 2 1/2 for that. My youngest at 14 months is just starting to figure out single words.

Answer 4

its not the gender but the birth order.
The first born child talks and advances faster than the second. Most likely because of personal attn.
Odds are he's not behind, she was ahead.
11mos is still early for even most one word phrases. Typically between 18-24mos they start speaking a lot more.

Answer 5

I've never heard of there being a difference between boys and girls. My daughter's pediatrician and her early intervention teacher told me that babies start putting two words together by about 18 months.

Answer 6

I dont think it has any to do with boys or girls It is just the child He will talk when he wants to just like a girl would!!!

Answer 7

my boys did't talk much till they were about 2,my daughter was about 1,i think they are all different,i have heard 1st babies talk sooner,you would think it the opposite and that the others would pick up from the older siblings,also sometimes they get what they want by pointing and we don't think to make them ask for things,as mothers we get to know what they want.

Answer 8

man now i just feel bad since girls are smarter then me! did god want to get pissed off by girls being smarter or something?!