Your 2 year old nowSome of the things preschoolers say are quite charming and unintentionally funny. They often blend two words to come up with a creative new one: prettyful, wonderfulous. They also mishear, mispronounce, and misremember words, inadvertently creating new ones that sometimes stick around a family for years: "ungabrella" for "umbrella," or "tummy button."Resist the urge to laugh at these malapropisms and mistakes. They’re wonderful evidence that your preschooler is working on mastering speech. Rather than correcting such errors, you might echo back what your child said in the right way but without commenting on the difference. Then go immediately over to a special notebook you keep for these immortal sayings and write them down so you never forget! Quick Clicks

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