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[quote=Anonymous]I’m sure I’ll get flamed for this, but my DS, 3, has been copying/affecting his BFF’s speech impediment. I’m wondering if there’s anything I should say/do or just let him continue and hope it’s a phase.

The friend is a sweet little boy who has a significant stutter and unique pronunciations of certain words (“wa-wa-wa-waaaaad-oor” for water or “mal-mal-mal-mmmmmm-maaaaalllllk” for milk). My son has taken to mimicking the stutter and different pronunciations both at school and at home. He is not making fun of his friend, and if I gently ask why he’s pronouncing a word a certain way, he will say because that’s how Larlo says it. If I correct him and say you know how to say water the right way, he will mispronounce it and say no, this is just how Larlo says it so that’s how I say it.

The boys are in the same preschool class, on the same soccer team, and we see the family a lot at the playground. Of course I’m not going to stop the kids playing together, but I also want to make sure that my child is not going to wind up with a speech issue if we don’t correct this affect he has taken in trying to sound like his buddy. It’s actually kind of sweet in a way, but I also have some concerns. Has anyone been there done that before?[/quote]

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