Comments on: Why? The Toddler Conversation Filler http://butterpies.com/why-the-toddler-conversation-filler/ Life, Kids, Crafts Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:30:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: AdrianIII http://butterpies.com/why-the-toddler-conversation-filler/comment-page-1/#comment-130 AdrianIII Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:29:16 +0000 http://butterpies.com/why-the-toddler-conversation-filler/#comment-130 I think this is fairly sound reasoning. Children most likely learn more by continually practicing their conversational skills. If you don't have much to work with, I can see 'how' as a simple and logical encouragement for continuing. I'm curious what Edith Ackermann she would say about this. http://linkedith.kaywa.com/ She is a child psychologist under Piaget. I also wonder if these formative stages are where children get the 'um', 'and', 'so' bug that plagues most conversation. Here's a related unverified article on filler conversation: http://wikibin.org/articles/conversation-fillers.html I think this is fairly sound reasoning. Children most likely learn more by continually practicing their conversational skills. If you don’t have much to work with, I can see ‘how’ as a simple and logical encouragement for continuing. I’m curious what Edith Ackermann she would say about this. http://linkedith.kaywa.com/ She is a child psychologist under Piaget.

I also wonder if these formative stages are where children get the ‘um’, ‘and’, ‘so’ bug that plagues most conversation. Here’s a related unverified article on filler conversation: http://wikibin.org/articles/co.....llers.html

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