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Like a lot of preschool-age kids, Hank substitutes the /w/ sound for /r/ in many words.  So he says: fwog pawade Wichard Scawwy book  And my favorite, a spell in the Harry Potter game:  "Weducto!"   I'm not in the least worried about it, as I know that kids can take until age 7 or so to get their articulations sorted out. This website says that a four year-old should be "100% intelligible even if they continue to have articulatio  Read more >

The other day I was piloting our vehicle around while my four-year-old Hank pondered in the backseat, wondering aloud about different kinds of work he might like, and whether he could do various jobs when he grew up. For example, he wants to go through the swinging doors in Publix, the doors back by the lobsters, and I told him that only people who work at Publix go back there. He asked if he could possibly work at a grocery store one day, and I told him that he surely could if he wanted to -- that he could probably do whatever job he wants to do when he grows up.  Read more >