My two yr old will not talk!?

Question

My two year old will not talk, he points and grunts or points and whines until he gets what he wants. every once in a while he will talk and when he does he talks better than most five yr olds! any advice to get him to talk more? also any potty training advice for him would be great!

Answer 1

You know what I'm having the same problem. I know as parent we want our kids to be advance and excel in every aspect of life. Just be patient, now if your doctor mention that everything is alright, then the child is OK. I know I continue to be at my child and keeping them active. Go the library or reduce the time which you let your child watch television, and when you and child in the riding in the car turn off the radio. Then you sang the ABC song, and numbers. Just continue to be active in your child life. My mother mention that on the weekends/evenings practice with your child by sitting on the potty. Soon the child will get adapted and catch on. I wish the best, be PATIENT, its going to take time.

Answer 2

Is he an only or are their siblings?

My second didn't talk much (she's made up for lost time trust me!) because her older sister catered to her and talked for her.

Have him evaluated by a pediatrician regarding the delayed speech and if no physical/ cognitive reason exists then simply do no give in to grunts and points. Remind him to use his words.

As far as potty training - well - I am a tried and true diaper to underwear, take a few days off of work and buy a bottle of resolve and lots of paper towels. Prepare for potty training boot camp. I trained all 4 of mine this way with good results. I might also recommend a good book to read in the bathroom for both of you because you spend a lot of time there! Good luck!

Answer 3

LOL!! My son learned words early, starting around age one. But he never used them, just learned to say them and what they meant. He didn't start to talk until around 2 and a half. That's when he showed interest in potty training. It's next t o impossible to potty train a child that cannot or will not tell you when they need to go. Get the talking thing started first, then work on potty training. In the meantime, let him watch Daddy go potty so he gets the idea . . . My husband had my son potty trained in an afternoon!

Answer 4

Act like you don't know what he wants from pointing and grunting, after awhile he will just start speaking so his needs are met sooner. As far as potty -training goes, the sticker chart reward method worked well for us. But before you even get started try to find some books for him about potty-training, so he gets used to the idea first. Good luck.

Answer 5

Tell him that you don't know what he wants and that you would like him to tell you what he wants. Stand firm, don't give him anything until he tells you and stops pointing and grunting. He will eventually just tell you what he wants instead of grunting. As for potty training a little boy I can help ya on that!! What we did with my son was we would take him into the bathroom, sit him on the potty and give him a book or sing with him until he went potty. We would take him all the time so that he could get used to it. And everyday he was dry we would get him a hot wheels car, he loved them so he wanted to potty so that he could get his "fast car". Once he was peeing on the potty all the time we taught him to stand and pee. I took squares of toilet paper and put them in the toilet and told him to "sink it" and he loved trying to sink the toilet paper, once he got better at that I would put a few cheerios in for him to sink. Once he was completely potty trained with no accidents we went to the store and got him a Hot Wheels race track so that he could race his new cars. He thought he was the coolest!! And it really worked!!! We even did the same thing with my daughter only once she was potty trained she got a bike!! Good luck to you!! Hugs!!!

Answer 6

My son was the same way. His biggest issues was he had 4 brothers and sisters plus mom and dad so he ALWAYS had someone hovering over him. We had to start ignoring the grunts and pointing until he asked for something. I told him he was going to have to ask. He understood what I was saying. Within a couple of months the grunting was gone and he was talking up a storm.

Answer 7

i would talk to the dr and maybe get him some speech therapy thats how my child was
my child would only tlak every once and a while and it made sense but he would say a word and then not say it for a month it was weird but speech helps i think its just having another person telling the child what to do works if the child isnt listening to u
i would definatley try speech my aunt is a peditrician and she says crucial speech time is between 18-24 months i know i had my child in speech by 19months u dont want the child to get too behind

potty training for boys ---- try throwing some cheerios in the toilet and telling them to try to pee on the target it works
best of luck

Answer 8

Every kid is on his own schedule when it comes to talking. At least you know he CAN talk, so he doesn't have any developmental disabilities like autism or mental retardation, so that's good. You know, many baby experts say that boys are slower to talk than girls, and I know that my brother didn't really talk much at all until he was like 2 1/2, he would just point and make sounds like motorcycles and things like that, and then one day he just talked fluently, like a much older child, like you said. Don't worry about it. If you are still worried, take him to the pediatrician and he/she can give him some basic tests to determine if he is progressing normally.

Answer 9

When he points and grunts for things, don't give them to him! Say "you can have it when you ask like a big boy." Then give him the chance to ask for what he wants. Like if he wants juice, he has to say "Juice, please." When he asks to your satisfaction, he can have it. You have to let him know by your actions and responses to him that grunts and whines are no longer acceptable to you. This lets him know only WORDS will get him what he wants. You don't have to yell or be mad about it, just matter-of-fact.

Answer 10

When he does the point and grunt thing, be firm and make him repeat the word (or say the sentence) before giving it to him. Tell him you don't understand what he wants, that he must use words.