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[quote=Anonymous]I think they are fudging the truth, tbh.  I have a pretty good memory (still) of how my own children's language developed.

I remember pretty vividly when they said their first words, when they started to crawl and when they each walked.  Some things they did on the early side of normal, some things they did right on time and other things (like being fully potty trained) took longer mainly because I didn't press the issue and waited for them to be fully ready to start the process.

My own kids are late teens and I doubt that my memory is going to change much by the time they have their own children in 10 or 15 years.  I think that early childhood education has made parents more aware of milestones and destigmatized delays.  For the past couple of decades parents have been more likely to seek evaluations and early intervention for their kids.  If a parent still has the paperwork from a developmental evaluation done decades ago and that paperwork backs up their memory of events....then I'd say that's a pretty accurate accounting.[/quote]

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