I think we praise this kid too much. ;)

schmoodle · June 2011

When Toodle accomplishes a task, DH and I both tend to say yay and clap. It's not a conscious reinforcing behaviors thing, just that we get excited when he learns a new skill. Except we do it so much that I've noticed Toodle now does it on his own! The other day he was "counting" (he can sort of count to 5, usually if he's counting along with us, but when I ask him to count, it's pretty hit or miss if he does it correctly). I asked him how many horses he had. He pointed to each of his 3 horse toys and said (in a counting type voice) "horse, horse, horse....YAY!!!!" and clapped. LOL. Apparently incorrectly completed tasks now get cheers too as far as he's concerned, he just thinks that's part of the sequence...

beebe929 · June 2011

Maybe he will be a Male cheerleader when he grows up?!?

dusk42 · June 2011

Avi takes it a step farther - if you don't clap for her, she will come to you and hold your hands and push them together.

And yay is her new favorite word.

LOL at horse, horse, horse!

fallbride110406 · June 2011

Yeah, we clap and say "Good job!" when they do soming new or impressive too. Now anything they deem good gets lots of clapping and "Ya ya ya!" from both of them. We ask if they did something good and they smile and clap. lol

muppet.fan · June 2011

Yep, us too. I'm pretty sure Elizabeth thinks "yay" is the number that comes after 10!

She also says "yay" after I do things. She'll ask me to sing a song ("Itsy, mama?" "Star, mama?") and when I get to the end, she'll clap and say "yay."

It's actually kind of nice -- it's usually the only praise I get all day!

superned · June 2011

dusk42:

Avi takes it a step farther - if you don't clap for her, she will come to you and hold your hands and push them together. And yay is her new favorite word.

That's hilarious!

DD also loves to clap for herself...if she eats a vegetable, she'll clap for herself. The other night she put a green bean in her mouth, chewed it a bit, clapped for herself, then spit it out. I had to say, "Sorry kid, I don't clap for spit out green beans."

It's too much, really. I had to turn my back so she couldn't see me cracking up!

She also claps for herself while playing her little piano, even when her little concertos aren't that great. Stick out tongue

desabean · June 2011

Garrison says "did it!" after 83% of everything she does. So far, I'm still in the "it's adorable" camp. If she is still pointing out that she "did it" when she is able to get in a big girl chair at 18, we'll have the "you're not so special" chat ; )

jenber77 · June 2011

LOL, so cute! Andrew does the same thing, only he congratulates himself with a "Good job!"

LVBlvd · June 2011

That is so funny!

Its is the same here. She says "yay" at the end of everything, as if it naturally goes there. Example, "one, two, three, yay." I say, "what color is your shirt, Paige?" She says, "pink, yay."

kme930 · June 2011

Too cute! I'm so going to be guilty of that. Even now, sometimes if Will does something good and I say "yay!" and clap, if he does it again, he will clap my hands for me!

I'm starting him too early, right?

dundasgirl · June 2011

Reed praises me for things I do now because of that! "Yay Mom! You stopped the car! Yay Mom! You cleaned the mess! I am so proud of you!!"

Toodle is getting so big!

schmoodle · June 2011

I love that other kids do this too, it's so cute! I especially like that they praise moms, haha, Toodle hasn't done that one yet.

BoilerSuz · June 2011

Wait until he offers you a sticker for your sticker chart for going potty or my favorite "Way to go mom, good job cleaning up the kitchen" Oiye.

laura1 · June 2011

dundasgirl:
Reed praises me for things I do now because of that! "Yay Mom! You stopped the car! Yay Mom! You cleaned the mess! I am so proud of you!!"
Toodle is getting so big!

My DS does this too. My DH was moving the lawn one day, and when he was finished, DS looked out the window at the lawn and said - Daddy mow lawn. Good Job Daddy! It was so cute!

vandelay · June 2011

Everyone's stories are so cute! Ivy claps for herself, and expects us to clap along with her, when she places her sippy cup in the high chair cup holder rather than throwing it on the floor. She has also clapped when watching a video of herself.

futrkingsley · June 2011

This morning, after a long conversation about toothpaste and why he can't have the fancy kind the dentist gave him, he decided he wanted to brush his teeth with his new brush and toothpaste and promised to practice spitting it out (since it has flouride in it).

Anyway, he brushes (yay!), he swishes, (great!) then spit (YAY!). And then he did it again and he said, "Okay this time, say Yay louder!" Repeat until he was asking me to yell "Yay!" It was so funny. It's totally what his music teacher does at preschool, "okay this time, say it LOUD!"

ashonkwiler09 · June 2011

That is too cute and funny!

nicolita14w · June 2011

James does that all the time, too. He loves to cheer for himself.

I remember when he was 1 he went through a stage where we had to cheer for every bite of food he ate.

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