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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 238141" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>When difficult child 3 was a toddler (and up to age 4 or 5) he was non-verbal but echolalic. I know, it's bizarre. But he would listen to the radio and would sing along to everything he heard. PLus, he would pick up a song from ONE hearing (or partial hearing) and sing it. He was memorising not just te words, but any other sounds that seemed (to his ears) to have equal importance. Thus he would sing the Fugees' version of "Killing Me Softly" complete with the "boing boing" sounds in the music. He wasn't so much singing the words, he was singing a series of (to him) random sounds that he memorised in a very long, complex sequence. When your kid is a walking tape recorder, it's scary sometimes. Not all kids pick things up quite this quickly, but you really do have to be careful about what they are exposed to, when they have 100&#37; recall. We used to say he was like a blotter - he soaked up everything, but often got it all backwards.</p><p></p><p>What was really embarrassing - when he would sing "I'm a Barbie Girl" (Aqua) while walking into pre-school. </p><p>"I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world. Life in plastic, it's fantastic." etc</p><p>Incidentally, that was a song that got banned - in Japan, the home of Mattel. I don't think they liked the satire.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 238141, member: 1991"] When difficult child 3 was a toddler (and up to age 4 or 5) he was non-verbal but echolalic. I know, it's bizarre. But he would listen to the radio and would sing along to everything he heard. PLus, he would pick up a song from ONE hearing (or partial hearing) and sing it. He was memorising not just te words, but any other sounds that seemed (to his ears) to have equal importance. Thus he would sing the Fugees' version of "Killing Me Softly" complete with the "boing boing" sounds in the music. He wasn't so much singing the words, he was singing a series of (to him) random sounds that he memorised in a very long, complex sequence. When your kid is a walking tape recorder, it's scary sometimes. Not all kids pick things up quite this quickly, but you really do have to be careful about what they are exposed to, when they have 100% recall. We used to say he was like a blotter - he soaked up everything, but often got it all backwards. What was really embarrassing - when he would sing "I'm a Barbie Girl" (Aqua) while walking into pre-school. "I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world. Life in plastic, it's fantastic." etc Incidentally, that was a song that got banned - in Japan, the home of Mattel. I don't think they liked the satire. Marg [/QUOTE]
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