kaycamp wrote:
My son communicates with us with lines from movies he watches. For example, when he doesn't want to use the bathroom he will throw his bottom onto the toilet and say, 'I'm in sad shape' (Charlie Brown, as he sits down at Lucy's psyciatric stand). If he is being scolded for something he'll say, 'Hey! Whats going on here, are you crazy?'...another Charlie Brown movie. Examples are many. Anyone elses kiddo communicate through script?
My son does this too. We have to censor everything he watches. Things got bad at Daycare though. R..... started blowing rasberries whenever he was agro (which was all the time in those days) right in peoples faces. Because his carers knew that everything he did and said came from movies they called us in and gave us a dressing down over the movies we were letting him watch ("You shouldn't be letting him watch adult movies and playing adult computer games that teach him to hit and spit.") At this point we admitted that the rasberries came from a movie and they asked us what he had been watching. Our reply - "Elmo in Grouchland". The didn't have a comeback for the age-appropriateness of that for a 3yo.
R..... Would also roleplay - he would allocate a movie character to you and only respond if you interacted with him as the character. Daddy was lucky and always got Kowalski from Penguins of Madagascar so he didn't have to talk just make barf noises. I regularly got Gloria the Hippo from Madagascar - observant about the physical is my boy.
He only does this occasionally now but until a year ago roleplay and movie dialogue would be the only way he would interact.