Toddlerisms 7: Mine
Turning 2 means the likelihood that ‘mine’ becomes one of a toddlers favourite words. Â With N it’s taken over from ‘no’.
Everything is ‘mine’ at the moment. Â He’s not got the ‘yours’ yet, just ‘mine’.
So, that’s food. Â Grabbing the plate at the same time in fear that it may get removed if he’s not looking or holding onto it.
Or toys. Â The current favourite is his wooden train set. Â He asks me (or yesterday it was Grandma) to help build it, then gives me one of the trains. Â No carriages. Â He has to have all of the carriages. Â All 5 or 6. Â The train won’t go round properly like that.
So I try reasoning with him, stealing one as he pushes them round, and all manner of attempts to get at least one carriage, but he has none of it. Â He just shouts ‘mine’.
Highly amusing, and thankfully he will usually share or give items to other people if asked, but it does get a bit non-stop with the ‘mine’ comments. Â I guess we’ve got the ‘why?’ to look forward to next.