I Offered.

Since no one has written me any questions yet (Annie!) I have not given anyone advice through this medium. In fact my Brother-in-law would rather I became a Unitarian minister than an advice columnist. I assume this is because of the increased access to young minds (wink wink), but I don't even like Unitarians. They strikes me as dishonest to insist on the structure and the spiritual without the actual belief, assuaging the fear without venerating The Cause.  So Jim agrees I should minister but disagrees on the sheep. I am choosing to answer a question posed by real life.

We had a play date Monday, two girls 3 and 1 and their mother came to side-step dog crap in our yard while I mowed our garden and grilled meat. The mother and I started talking about how...what is the correct word...batshitcrazy it is waiting for our three year old's to begin their sentences. "Bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bubbles float into the trees."
Everyone who has spent time around kids knows that they do this and I figured it was a process of learning how to talk, but what the mother and I were complaining about, "I got paranoid she had a speech problem" was that the ticks only developed recently in our 3 year old's. They spoke better, more cleanly, a month ago.
Before I had a 3 year old I figured they were just excited, over-ready to begin their story.  But last night as I was listening to Nyssa and Katy do exercises in Nyssa's workbook (A fragment I never thought I would have written, but Nys loves it), The were practicing the sounds of words, trying to identify which picture started with the letter D. Nys goes, "sa sa sa sa soccer, Soccer ball does not start with D."
As she stuttered out the sound of the word, I could see her turning the sound and shape and look of the word around in her head.  And I realized kids are stuttering when they are trying to tell stories because they are investigating how the words look or sound.?.
Perhaps they stutter more because they are trying to do 2 things at once, tell a story and play with a word or sound in their head (so you crabby people could say they are not focusing are wasting time) but hat explains why kids develop the stuttering habit rather than have it right away.?. It is only after they have an ability with language that they are able to play with it and explore it.?. 
They are thinking: I have this adults attention, I HAVE THIS ADULTS ATTENTION now what? and That thing I want to talk about is great. and Soccer ball, is a toy and a word and sa sa sa sa, sa starts with S.
I think that is pretty amazing.  

Since none of you have written me with questions yet, I sent the explanation to my friend and here is a portion of her reply: "Now the stuttering thing makes sense.  Thanks…" (So I didn't include the part where she said stay out of our lives, I'm ugly and fat, and to mind our my own business...but is that really important?)

Now I have 2 testimonials. How sweet is that!