singingpond
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The other day I was driving down our long dirt driveway, with DS#2 (age 3 1/2) strapped into his carseat in the back. He had missed going out with me 10 minutes earlier (I had taken the car out to wait for DS#1's school bus; it was a cold rainy day). DS#2 was VERY upset to have missed the trip.... so I finally offered him a 'redo' to calm him down. We're big into redos here lately, most of them so he can 'do myself!!' 
Anyway, since I was just driving down the driveway, I hadn't put on my seatbelt. I was surprised to hear DS's voice calling urgently from the back 'Mommy that!, Mommy that!!' I realized he was pointing at my seatbelt, which he could see at the side of the driver's seat. I put the seatbelt on, and he approvingly said 'keep you safe!' several times.
He's only been FF for a few weeks, so I didn't even know he recognized what the people in the front seat were doing with the seatbelts, and was surpised that he apparently had some idea what they were for. It was cute, since he sounded so concerned.
DS has a speech delay, and is just starting to come out with longer and more complicated utterances. We always knew he understood much more than he could say, but now we keep getting examples of that -- like his little seatbelt lecture to me.
Incidentally, I've noticed lately that he's much less likely to open his own chest clip than he used to be half a year ago, so I guess all our mini-lectures about safety while driving really are sinking in with him.
Katrin
Anyway, since I was just driving down the driveway, I hadn't put on my seatbelt. I was surprised to hear DS's voice calling urgently from the back 'Mommy that!, Mommy that!!' I realized he was pointing at my seatbelt, which he could see at the side of the driver's seat. I put the seatbelt on, and he approvingly said 'keep you safe!' several times.
He's only been FF for a few weeks, so I didn't even know he recognized what the people in the front seat were doing with the seatbelts, and was surpised that he apparently had some idea what they were for. It was cute, since he sounded so concerned
.DS has a speech delay, and is just starting to come out with longer and more complicated utterances. We always knew he understood much more than he could say, but now we keep getting examples of that -- like his little seatbelt lecture to me
.Incidentally, I've noticed lately that he's much less likely to open his own chest clip than he used to be half a year ago, so I guess all our mini-lectures about safety while driving really are sinking in with him.
Katrin
