My little girl has been saying dada & bye bye correctly for a good while but lately she’s getting her b’s and d’s mixed up. Calling her daddy baba and saying dye dye 🫣 I haven’t been making a big deal out of it, I’ve literally just been saying it the correct way straight after. Should I be concerned?
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It's very common, they can sometimes confuse letter and words while learning more and other skills. It's the first skill to drop when they learn other things due to the way the brain works.
Everything with us has become bye bye and juice, although she knew words for lots of things, she's dogirer out more motor skills to I imagine that's why and in a few weeks I'm expecting a language burst again the way she's going and usually when she's muddles thw two are going to happen xx
I used to teach primary school and I. Remember from my training that you should just correct children calmly so I’m just applying that with her & hoping it corrects itself 🤞🏽

Yeah! So like yes that's dada or I know not correct grammar wise but let's go bye bye 🤣 yeah definitely, modelling is good and reinforcing it where possible for sure. We found calling each other mama and dada for example super helpful and using correct words from the get go. We have had some issues with speech but she's still well beyond the baseline but I asked SALT about it as nursery mentioned it too but they've said it's very common and just sort of ignoring it but modelling is a good way to help (I'm not explaining this very well at all I'm so sorry 🤣)
Yeah im just being very nonchalant about it not making a big deal. She’s said these words properly for such a long time but she’s suddenly learnt so many more so like you say it’s just been forgotten in her little head ☺️ I actually never call my partner by his name now it’s always mummy & daddy in this house 🤣 everything is a worry though isn’t it x