He is saying Dad!!!

[mjknapp]

Well not really, but for the last few weeks my son has been saying dadadadadadadada, I keep telling my wife that I have been repeating dada to him all day to make him day it, but honestly I have never encouraged him to say dada, do you think that maybe that I am the person around him the most he is saying dada, or jsut the age old study that say's d's are easier to say than m's for babies??

[Don-Dad]

My 1 year old says, daddadada alot and . uh, uh, uh, DA! MA!

Who knows why :)

[Jackson's Dad]

Da and Ma are two of the easiest sounds to make, which is why they because what they are. If I remember my college phonetics classes, I believe that "ma" is technically easier because it doesn't involve the tongue at all.

So him saying "dada" first, is simply because he loves you more. ;)

[mjknapp]

So him saying "dada" first, is simply because he loves you more. ;)


Nice....lol I am going to show my wife this, no better not, she might not take it for the joke it is, her being a woman and all emotional and stuff. ](*,)

[Remington]

Yea be careful with the whole emotional mommy thing. All of my kids have said daddy first when I walk in the room. It really makes the wife feel excluded. I try to work with the kids to call her mommy.

It is real funny... my 2 older kids call her Jess and not mommy. We are trying to correct that now. It doesn't go over well in public. We get stares... lol

[mjknapp]

I have never encouraged it at all, he just started saying dadada, I do repeat mamama to him alot, just so she can hear it. The things that make a woman sad.........

[Indy]

Rachel has begun to say them both, but says mama far more frequently. I can get her to repeat mama for me, but when I say dada, she responds--in the sweetest voice--mama. I think mom's been coaching her. :x