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Today, my daughter spoke her first words. Her dad had been practicing with her for weeks in secret. She crawled to me and said, "I poop." FML

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At least she's correct.

Shoulda been "Grab daddy a beer" ....he missed the opportunity

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llamalpaca382 13

You, sir, are fail.

physicist48 0

Is that really FML material?

How is this a FML?

Aww I think that would be so cute!

erockinthesuburb 17

You spend the first couple years teaching your kids to talk, and then you spend the rest of their lives wishing they'd stfu. It's a slippery slope.

MegumiStarr 13

I think that's kind'a cute. :D

I wouldn't really consider this an FML -I think it's a funny thing for the baby to say. So much more relavent to her life than "mama/dada". Besides, have *you* been practicing with her? Babies don't just randomly decide to start talking, you have to practice with them so they know which random sounds to repeat to make words... because really, at that age none of it has any meaning to them anyway. It's entirely a conditioned response until they get a little older and are able to make two-word sentences... Which, looks like your baby's a leg up on the world!

40 - You absolutely do NOT have to practice with babies in order for them to talk, and in fact there's a great deal of evidence that most direct instruction, practice, correction, etc. provided to babies and children has little to no effect on their proficiency. All that's necessary is that they be exposed to language; it doesn't even need to be directed at them (though that is generally helpful). As a linguist, I have a REALLY hard time believing that a child's first utterance was a basically grammatical 2-word sentence, much less exactly what dad had been trying to get her to say; this flies in the face of extensive evidence and knowledge of how child language acquisition more or less universally works. Maybe the kid said "poop" (still unlikely given the general progression of sound acquisition) and mom optimistically/excitedly heard the "I."

that stinks a lot and every month you dont even get a break poor garbage cans haha

herpitydurteedur 0

Wrong fml

Not an FML. Pure epicness.

IAMAFUCKINGPHYSC 0

Hello my baby hello my darling hello my ragtime gal.... And I'm only 15