Is this normal??

Is normal my Irish twins are like that

Like is she doing it just for fun, or it seems like she can’t enunciate certain sounds? Young kids sometimes like to do baby talk just for fun (I kinda can’t stand baby talk but that’s me). If she has trouble repeating the words clearly you could try to get a speech therapist to help out with it. My neighbors kid needed some help with his speech so he could more clearly be understood by others. I think some kids have some minor tightness issues in their mouth that might make it hard to pronounce stuff, and others might just need more practice in pronouncing things.

I’ll repeat back words to my daughter if she mispronounces them, and usually she corrects herself, but she’s been a pretty clear talker to begin with. I personally can be a bit of a mumbler, but I tried really hard to enunciate words clearly when I read to her which I think helped her pronunciation. When we are talking we tend to drop some letters at the ends of words, and the kids mimic that, but aren’t as accurate with the rest of the word so can be hard to know what they’re trying to say.

@Ellen Yeah for the most part, she repeats it if I say it. She does like attention and would often times do the baby talk for fun I guess. And yeah I can’t stand the baby talk. I was concerned because I want to enroll her in school. Her daycare teacher said she is really smart and loves to learn. But I sometimes feel like she is behind in her speech or maybe I’m just overthinking.

You should still be able to enroll her in school unless she’s like impossible to understand most of the time. There are plenty of kids that aren’t super clear talkers at age 4 in preschool, so they should be able to deal with it and help her. When my daughter does baby talk I make a point of saying “it’s hard to understand you, can you say it again clearly” and that helps a bit. But they will just do it for fun.

@Ellen Okay thanks for the feedback.