My aunt asked if she could bring her grandsons (6 and 2 years old) over to meet my best friend’s new puppy. The 2-year-old, who calls the family cat a “meow-meow,” saw the cat-sized puppy and went very quiet. Finally, in a puzzled tone, he pointed at the dog and inquired, “Meow-meow?” IMMD!
Submitted by: Iyam
This is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read. Your stupid kid said something stupid? Everyone must know! To the internet!
yeah, seriously, I wouldn’t post this – I wouldn’t want the world to know my kid was so dumb they couldn’t tell a cat from a dog…
Bitches, both of you. It’s a cute story.
It’s not cute, it’s stupid. I don’t even think the kid’s that stupid, he’s just a kid. Whoever posted this has a very sad and boring life. Some kid said something stupid and it made your day? How? Get a hobby or something. And even if it did, why would you feel the need to go out of your way to tell strangers about it on the internet, that don’t know this kid or even the dog in question?
“Get a hobby or something.”
Yeah, the poster would be better off if he bitched on the internet about people he doesn’t even know, like you do. I assume your name isn’t ironic.
He’s two. Give him a break.
When my family first got our cat, my 3yo brother named her “meow-meow”. That’s still her name
Reminds me of when my brother was about that age and determined that the difference between dogs and cats was that cats have “up” ears and dogs have “down” ears. The conclusions they come to just from their own observation are amazing!
I’m sorry, I usually go “awww” at this type of story, but really! This is one of the dumbest IMMD I’ve ever seen.
Why is that?
I’m not saying aww either. I’m just worried about the kid’s development. A two year old should at least be saying cat and most would construct a sentence like “Is that a cat?” or at least “It’s a cat?”
… A two-year-old. Really? Have you ever been around a two year old?
If he can’t make a sentence, then it’s worrying, but we don’t know context, maybe the kid learned how to act cutesy to get more positive attention, in which case he suffers from a lame family, which is far from the worst share one can get in life.
There’s a huge difference between a 25 month old 2 year old and a 34 month old 2 year old. Also a huge difference between boys and girls, and any random healthy pair of 2 year olds you may meet.
Kids develop at different rates. There is nothing worrying about a 2-year-old who can’t form a sentence.
And just because he didn’t use a complete sentence in this particular instance doesn’t mean he can’t.
Could there not be a separate thread for the “awww, ain’t the wittle precious soooo cute” IMMDs? There are way too many on them in here and they’re starting to keep me away.
Here here. I am with you 100%.
To all the negative people in this thread, I want to know just one thing…Who pi$$ed in your Corn Flakes?
Exactly!
I was never a strong speaker as a child, and I couldn’t get past C in the ABCs. I’m perfectly fine at the age I’m at now. Some even call me down right smart!
The point is, the child is perfectly fine, this was adorable, and stop being party poopers.
Yes,the story’s ok, and very often it’s something a child says or does that makes our days wonderful but you would think that by two years of age he had been exposed at least to pictures of dogs and puppies, if not the animals themselves, and so might know what they are.
Not necessarily. Take into consideration that not all dogs look alike. Cats at least have a standard look to them, so a Persian may look similar to a Tabby, except maybe fluffier, fatter, or whatever. On the other hand, a Labrador looks nothing like a Chihuahua or a Pomeranian. So the child could have been exposed to pictures of dogs and puppies and still have no idea if the particular puppy he was looking at was actually a canine.
oh he will be perfectly able to determine that the picture of a dog is a dog … well no … since he will just be able to tell that a picture of a dog is the picture of a dog
In Austria there is a chocolate brand that has a purple cow as a logo. I know some people (who are very clever and even smart today) who were convinced as lil kids that cows are purple.
long story short : The ability to bridge between picture to real life animated object is something that comes much later in child developmet than at 2 years. (generally speaking)
Milka?
And even if the child would have a developmental problem, it would still be cute. This is a happy website!
My cornflakes are fine and milky, thank you. I’m just wondering when this became a “mommy & me” sub-forum and where I can find the posts for adults who are interested in more than “pwecious widdle ones and their ever so cute doings”.
The site is called IT MADE MY DAY, not It Made Rattus’ Day!
In my world, MY = Rattus – these toddler-fests are not making MY day.
then please get your snarky friends together and submit more material that you would like to see here. bring the snark i say! if more snark gets submitted, more snark gets posted. when all the submissions are “kids say the darndest things” then that’s what ends up here.
Agreed.
I concur. My 1 year old (a few months from 2) can carry on conversations. Shes a smart little devil!
I’m guessing this tot is a boy, based on development.
For some perspective, look up the age Einstein began to talk.
So, you are implying that boys develop slower?
boys do develop slower in speech…
And in potty training.
There was this guy that would walk his two small, pointy eared, bushy-tailed dogs by our house every day and my little bro (2 or 3 at the time) would insist they were cats, despite what we’d try to tell him. So once my mom says, “Kirk, say DOG.” Kirk looks at her and goes “Mom, say CAT.”
that is cute
my kid at first called our cats Beeeshies. don not ask me why.
The kid is fine and adorable. It’s totally normal for a 2 wear old to make up names for things. Why shouldn’t he call a cat a meow-meow? Maybe he watches pokemon. As for not being able to ID a dog it depends on the breed. My friend has 2 mutts. One is mostly German Shepherd and is unequivocally a “dog”. The other looks and acts like a cross between a wiener dog, and a long hared cat. We call her the cat-dog. She would confuse any 2 year old.
Ugh. Why so much hate? This is cute, and kids develop at different rates. Nothing wrong with that. Einstein developed slowly as a child.
I don’t see what the problem is, some children are just never going to be astronauts.