First time poster. Jackson’s speech development concerns me. As someone else mentioned he is approaching 20 months and the only words I ever hear him say in vlogs is “what’s this”. Obviously he might be saying more words than what we see in vlogs but I found a video of another baby boy 20 month old (coincidentally his name is Jack,
link if you are interested) and I noticed that he initiated communication with his mom by saying “mama mama” and the mom said “No not right now”. It made me realize that Jackson might be more far behind that I realized since we have never seen an interaction like that from him. Obviously I hope that isn’t the case and that Jackson is saying more words than what we see in vlogs. But it does worry me that as first time parents the Trackers might not realize. It is frustrating to me to see that they aren’t repeating words back to him slowly when he asks “what’s this”. They say it all so fast and never make him request what he wants. When they are anticipating his every want/need they aren’t giving him an opportunity to even learn how to communicate/request.
Also it’s just baffling to me that they haven’t taught him very simple “baby’s first words” like “more”, “yum yum”, “yucky”, “please”, “ball” etc. I don’t want to blame them as I’m pretty sure neither of them had a ton of experience with kids before Jackson but to me that just seems like they are really missing something. Now I’m sure Jackson will
be fine and maybe he’s just a late bloomer and that’s how they are consoling themselves with the fact that “babies go at their own pace”, but you can tell that Jackson is definitely intelligent and wants to talk but the Bojos aren’t doing what they can to help.