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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is 6 almost 7 and he was/is a lot like that.  He answers a lot of question with a quick matter-of-fact answer and doesn't want to say more.  I often get "great" when I ask him how his day when, and if I ask what he liked best he says "everything!"

I've noticed he's very precise, he doesn't like to speculate or infer, and he's very literal. If I start asking him questions about what might happen next in a book, he'll say "let's just keep reading and find out!"  He doesn't enjoy talking about more abstract ideas, he likes facts.  He likes to find out the whys and hows of things.  As he gets older, he's able to articulate more complex questions.  Like he's very interested in dinosaurs and we recently had a long discussion about evolution because he wanted to know why the Jurassic dinosaurs didn't continue living into the cretaceous age and meet those dinosaurs.

Maybe your boy is the same?  I mean, maybe he thinks once he's answered that he likes green and pizza, what more is there to say?  You say he can talk a lot about video games and pokemon, maybe he's only talkative on a subject he's really interested in and not just for the sake of talking?[/quote]

This sounds exactly like my son! He does not enjoy guessing. Anytime I ask him to guess, he says "can you please just give me the answer?" The way you described the reading is exactly how he is as well. He does talk a lot about Pokemon, he can go on and on and on about Pokemon (and Minecraft!), but if grandma asks him what he wants for his birthday, he shrugs and says "a gift". I'm glad to hear that someone else has a boy like this as well. He's not mute, he always answers, he just won't elaborate. I'm going to keep an eye out on him, but this made me feel a bit better PP, thank you. [/quote]

Glad I could help a bit.  I have also sometimes wondered about my son, but his preferences for talking have become clearer as he gets older and it seems ok.  His teachers have not expressed concern.  I do try to get him to extend his conversations in a casual way, like if I heard he said "I like green and pizza" I'd say "hmm, that's interesting, I wonder why you picked those things."  He used to say "because I like them!" but now I sometimes get more explanation like "well, I was thinking of lunch and pizza is my favorite lunch food because I like cheese and pepperoni."  So I try to draw more conversation out of him.  And of course now we can talk forever about dinosaurs.  I know his teachers try to get him to elaborate more about his ideas at school too; they say they do that with all kids.

He's very different from his older sister, who is always chattering about her ideas and her thoughts about everything under the sun.  Kids are all different.  [/quote]

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