#big mimi

[peeweemimi]

Normalize combining baby and adult things in regression. Let me put coffee in my bottle like the twenty year old child I am

[kosomolski-dolls]

New doll in the house!

He is really cute!!

I love the mouth pieces 😂 look at them!

I'm a bit torn on the body, it is kinda cute, but it's also a bit too tall for my liking (for that cute face at least), but maybe some clothes and a faceup will change that.

[peeweemimi]

As an SLP in training (aka a giant language development nerd), here’s my masterlist of child development standards to help with agere!

Disclaimer: I am not a professional. I just started taking classes for my major this year. This info will not be 100% correct

🍼1 year🍼

First word at ~12 months

Most sounds will be p, b, h, m, n, w (errors can occur up to age 3)

Common words are nouns and verbs

No plurals or past tense

Common errors are reduplication (wawa for water, baba for bottle), gliding (putting w and y instead of l and r (wead for read)), cluster reduction (less consonants in a row (back for black)), final consonant deletion (ba for ball) AND MORE in the picture below. Babies make basically every error possible

🧸2 years 🧸

Two word sentences mainly

Add sounds k, g, t, d, f, y (errors up to age 4)

Learning -ing, -s, past tense

Adding words like “is,” “on,” “a,” “the” “will”

Like negatives (no, not, don’t)

Still have a chance to produce all phonological process errors

🧃3 years🧃

~2-4 words average

Sounds r, l, s, z, ch, sh (errors up to ~ age 7)

All vowels developed

Should know many morphemes (-s, -ed, etc) with occasional errors

Multiple clauses! Two simple sentences can combine with “and,” if,” “because,” etc

No more reduplication :(

🪁4 years🪁

~4-5 words average

Sounds j, v, th (basically all of them by now, but errors still occur with most)

Beginning to sound like adult speech

No more cluster reduction or deleting syllables in a word (di-saur for dinosaur)

So what if you need a sound you don’t have?

There are a couple common rules that you can follow to substitute sounds. (Or just delete them. That’s good too. Especially if there are two consonants touching)

Voice, place, manner. All consonants have these three characteristics. Usually, it’s the manner that’s tricky for kids. Stops (p,b,t,d,k,g) nasals (m, n, ng), and glides (w, y) are mostly developed first, while affricates (j, ch), fricatives (f, v, s, z, sh, zh, th), and liquids (l, r) are later.

As a rule of thumb, trade out a sound that’s made at the same location. For example, if you were going to say “vase,” you’d say “base,” because both v and b are produced with the lips. “Then” becomes “den”, because the stop that’s produced closest to the teeth is d.

Secondly, play attention to whether a sound is voiced. This means that your vocal cords are vibrating when you put your hand on your throat. If they are, choose a sound that is also voiced. Many sounds have a voiced and voiceless pair (b and p, t and d, etc). They’re produced in the exact same place. The only difference is whether you’re using your vocal cords.

Finally, r and l are always replaced by w and y. This is called gliding and it’s my favorite thing ever.

[peeweemimi]

My worst fear is getting into a long term committed relationship and then finding out that they don’t support age regression.

I probably wouldn’t tell my girlfriend until like a year into dating because I’d need to trust them. If they’re rude about it, that might be a dealbreaker. But if they just don’t want to be a cg, that wouldn’t really be grounds for breaking up. It’d just suck, because I’d never get to have a cg

[peeweemimi]

I want a giant stuffed animal so I can pretend I’m a little tiny baby holding a regular sized stuffie

[peeweemimi]

Hey google, how do you know if you’re a pet regressor?

[peeweemimi]

The urge to just goo-goo ga-ga

[peeweemimi]

Sometimes you just gotta man up and admit that you want to be called a puppy and bark at the mailman