After months of shaking his head from side to side, saying "Nnnn," saying "No," and even grunting "Uh-uh" (which sounds so casually mature), Isaac has finally added an affirmative to his vocabulary.
It is Yeah!
He already knew what it meant, but he never said it. Remembering the luck I had teaching him to say please, I trained him to say yeah in about ten minutes. (It seemed easier to say than yes.)
Earlier this week we were reading a book about a semi-truck on a cross-country haul (Donald Crews's Truck). In the course of its journey the truck occasionally drives past a bus, which always attracted Isaac's attention. So as we read the book, on each page I asked, "Is there a bus?" When the answer was "No," he answered readily. When there was a bus, however, he was silent, so I answered "Yeah!" with great enthusiasm. He started saying it with me the second time through the book, and now he can use it appropriately in conversation.
He still prefers the negative, however. Ask him any question with a not in it (such as "You're not supposed to throw food on the floor, are you?"), and he'll respond "No. Uh-uh."
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