Bill Moss

As your kids grow out of toddlerhood, they learn that their favorite color is "yellow," not "lello," and that a trip to the zoo is to see the "animals," not the "amnials." While language development is undoubtedly important, seeing those adorable malapropism's disappear from their vocabulary can feel like the end of an era. No one understands this better than blogger John Kinnear who wrote a post last week called "The 10 Toddler Words That I'll Miss Most," about the phrases his ...

Before our kids learn our language, we get to experience the magic of learning theirs. For an amazing (and amazingly short) period of time, kids speak a language that only their parents can understand. Have you ever been around a parent and their kid, and the kid looks at the parent and says, "Samoopeeepoop clababa pano pano it," and the parent, completely un-phased, replies with something like "No dear, you've had enough graham-crackers, and dinner is in an hour"? I'm going to ...