Covid Restrictions Have Left a Generation of Babies and Toddlers Struggling to Crawl and Communicate, According to Ofsted
Young children who’ve been ‘socialised’ in the last two years are struggling with making friends, speech and language and using the toilet independently, Ofsted inspectors have found. The Telegraph has more.
Children are not socialising with each other as much because of communication problems, lack confidence and are shy and anxious, with babies in particular not used to seeing different faces.
There are also delays in babies learning to crawl and walk and some children have regressed, meaning they need help with skills such as putting on their coats and blowing their nose.
Delays in development mean more children are unlikely to be ready for school by the age of four, the report warns.
Amanda Spielman, chief inspector, said the pandemic has created “lingering challenges”.
“I’m particularly worried about younger children’s development which, if left unaddressed, could potentially cause problems for primary schools down the line,” she said.
Ofsted published the briefings, the second in a set of reports exploring how learners have recovered from pandemic learning loss, on Monday.
The report, based on inspections of 70 early years’ providers in Jan and Feb 2022, found some providers said children had “limited vocabulary” while “some babies have struggled to respond to basic facial expressions”.
Children have also missed out on having conversations or hearing stories, with one provider saying that young children seem to have spent more time on screens and have started to use accents and voices from programmes they watched.
Worth reading in full.
You can read the Ofsted report here.
Stop Press: Daily Sceptic alumnus Michael Curzon has written a piece about this Ofsted report for the Express. Well worth reading.
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So now so we start locking people up?
Completely unforeseeable, of course. No one could have predicted it and, you know, said from the start that lockdown was inhumane.
What we need to recognise and accept is that it was deliberately inhuman!
I saw this coming and am very proud of Mrs MAk and myself for taking full responsibility for our children’s education since October 2020. They have never been better. It has brought us all even closer. We should never have sent them to school, let’s face it, for most working families they’re just storage solutions at best, and at worst they cause intelligent sensitive kids to become confused and depressed.
‘and at worst they cause intelligent sensitive kids to become confused and depressed.’
Mrs CG is a therapist specialising in school age children and just the other day she expressed exactly the same sentiment – that schools can be terrible environments for children and in some cases break the ones who are just too sensitive to be in them.
As you know I’m a teacher and have a somewhat ambivalent view – I think they’re important for learning social and communication (and survival!) skills, but the influence of unwanted propaganda and brainwashing is a real concern. I’m thinking climate change, identity politics and more recently covid. But I also think you’ve got to trust your own kids resilience to these forces; if they can survive school and retain their own mind, then they’re in a good position to tackle life. We’ve thought hard about withdrawing our kids from school (would be embarrassing as the middle one is at the same school as me) but we haven’t got the time or resources to do this, so I’m slightly envious!
Sadly the real world is confusing and depressing. So if anything intelligent kids are learning how to cope with the crass stupidity and occasional futility they will face when they emerge from the educational system.
Agreed, cg. I would only add that home education, when done properly, exposes children to better opportunities to develop social and communication skills. I say better, because they are exposed to other home ed children of a much broader range of backgrounds, abilities, skills – and crucially, ages; the narrow age range of the school classroom is not beneficial, in my view.
Also, in our experience so far, home ed parents have a much more hands off approach, they are the opposite of the ambitious, helicopter parents we saw so much of in the council-run school environment. They let their children run free, fight their own battles, find their own justice, look after younger/vulnerable kids, so on.
In my experience (both my own at a “good school” and through my children), the traditional school environment patronises children by attempting to prevent and stigmatise juvenile rough-and-tumble.
Too much independent thought is discouraged too. To pass exams in certain subjects regurgitation if the information the teacher provided is what is required.
I thought whole county was “confused and depressed” after just two years of Johnson?
What has Johnson even done to improve the lot of those living in Britain? Johnson is the Etonian thug who tried to help his mate Darius Guppy have a journalist beaten up. The likes of Johnson should be in prison, not at No10.
Hard to disagree.
I shall never get over that name, ‘Darius Guppy‘ – the tiny fish that once ruled over Persia.
a creche subsidised in a way that nudges both parents into working and thus maximises land title prices.
I disagree.
Maybe your school was in such a category, but my daughters, outside of the two closures which I actively fought, they have been excellent. They kept masks to a minimum despite the standard request for parents to wear them. Many days I know her teacher just went without.
She bounces into school every day, has made friends, we’ve got to know half the village through her invitations to events and birthday parties. Her education has been excellent so far.
Obviously you keep this under review but I am more than happy with how things have gone through primary 1 and 2.
Just wanted to express that all is not lost. Yet.
Glad to hear it, BeBop. No two children are alike. No two schools are alike.
I’ll add my voice to this: not all schools jumped on the bandwagon of Covid madness. The one I am involved with keeps things as normal as possible, barely a mask to be seen, despite many of their staff taking their “turns” at being infected.
Yes, same at the school two of my grandkids go to; the other two are home educated anyway and always have been.
The Teaching Unions did this. Shame on them, scum they are. And Johnson bottled it as usual.
Always a few “Candles burning in the darkness”- but who can any longer doubt we are entering a new ‘Dark Age’ – unless we stop it by saying “no”?
Many teachers love teaching and love kids. I know I do. Many teachers did everything they could without breaking the law to mitigate the problems. They were under huge pressure to conform. I am so glad to hear that your two have a good school.
Yep, I love it (the classroom bit, not the mindless bureaucracy and paperwork surrounding it) and did my best to shield the kids in my care from the excesses of covid lunacy ✊
Therein lies the key point. The major impact on how children cope with the lunacy is the influence of their parents. The gutless, ignorant, paranoid parents are more likely to damage their own children.
The child brought up in a sceptic household has the mental strength to cope with the propaganda fed to them.
School seems the worst place on earth for children and the moment – guaranteed to induce psychiatric disorder!
Not the worst place on earth who live in abusive homes.
for those who live in abusive homes
Very well said. My daughter took over the teaching of her children in 2018 after her son was very badly bullied. She found that three hours per day on the academic curriculum gave her time to teach practical skills, enjoy being together as a family. They are very close with hobbies they all do together and friends they choose to be with rather than friends they are thrown together with.
My first grandchild is due in a few weeks. When I’m looking after her, I will not allow anyone to talk to her wearing a mask.
Good on you, hear hear!
Same here 😊
Me too. I have three young grandchildren and I am pleased to say that they have been well protected from the covid zealots by their parents and grandparents. I have to say that their school has been quite good too given they have had to accommodate rules and guidance from government and pressure from frightened and hysterical parents. It’s not easy being a sceptical teacher as I expect crisisgarden can testify.
One wonders whether these affected children are from covidian households, single mother households or households that use a nursery to raise their children…
TBH does it really matter? I cannot see how children can be unaffected by what has happened over the course of the last 2 years, although the effects on some will be worse than others.
These children will in 18-20 years time be the crop of doctors, engineers, scientists, accountants, nurses, electricians, plumbers etc etc which we will rely on at one point or another.
That their education and social and other development has been stunted in this way will be to their detriment and ours in the decades to come. And they in turn will pass that trauma down the generations. That is how it works; there is such a thing as “intergenerational trauma”. We can only guess at the continuing harms. Well done governments all over the world. You must be very proud of your achievements.
They sacrificed the lives of the young to protect the lives of the elderly and to reassure the permanently frightened. It’s as simple as that.
No. The point about this abuse of children is that there is now a generation of young, insecure, impressionable, frightened little ones who are destined to provide simple slave fodder in the coming years.
C1984 was only ever a cover for the evil and to think otherwise is naïve at best. This has been deliberate.
It’s never about what they say it’s about.
“C1984 was only ever a cover for the evil and to think otherwise is naïve at best”. Thanks for this startling revelation, but I’m aware of what’s going on. My point was about who will suffer the most, nothing else.
Indeed. Even within the constraints of their own virtuous narrative they were sacrificing the young in favour of the old.
No. They aren’t they are indifferent as to whether they sacrifice the young and/or the old ( see Hancock’s Midazolam use and “Covid Pathway” mortality if they get you into hospital on a ‘positive’ PCR test!).
What are “Virtual Covid Wards” all about?
What they didn’t realise is that the mindless feeds of crap coming through the “telescreens” had already achieved their goals in >95% of the existing (insecure, impressionable, frightened) adult population. It’s allowed them to move a decade ahead of schedule.
Unhappily, this must be the conclusion more and more people must reluctantly reach, if we are to make any progress away from the Nightmare they have planned for us.
The evidence mounts by the day …the sheep are still asleep.
Or – they sacrificed the lives of the young while pretending, but conspicuously failing, to protect the lives of the elderly; and ensuring that as many people as possible were frightened out of their wits for as long as possible.
Quite. I’ll have to be clearer in the future!!
I followed your lead – I was so angry, I didn’t know what to say.
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Thanks for posting the link – when I have more time I will enjoy his artwork and humour!!
I am one of “the elderly” and nobody asked my opinion. From the outset, I said I would accept restrictions so that the young and working age groups could get on with their lives unfettered.
Being prepared to accept restrictions is the problem and I say that as a 67 year old.
It is more of a problem for you youngsters, I guess.
Why would you “accept restrictions” – for what? Thousands of people have not ended up in intensive care wards with tubes stuck down their throats – that was just a lie to scare everyone.
According to the Italian doctors , the ventilators ( recommended by the Chinese) were responsible for many deaths as they were entirely the wrong treatment and worsened the condition.
In my entirely unqualified opinion, the very idea behind a so-called positive pressure ventilator, ie, pump up people as if they were tires, seems completely insane.
It was. The SARS-CoV-2 virus interferred with oxygen exchange, rather than ability to take in air. Forcing virus laden air deeper into the lungs was possibly the worst thing to do.
The covid damaged lungs, with the way in which covid impacted the blood vessels, couldn’t cope with the amount of oxygen being forced in by ventillators.
I tried to point this out to someone Dec 21 and was argued down in no uncertain terms.
The old were never ‘at risk’ from the young.
Well, they pretended to protect the lives of the elderly – in reality the measures didn’t work and may have actually made things worse, i.e. caused more elderly people to die that would have happened if they’d done nothing.
And now with electricity and gas bills rising three or four times the cost a month ago, the elderly will freeze to death.
Thanks Rishi!
“All taken care of” ( smirk)
One should mention that they actually started by condemning thousands of care home residents to die horribly from Covid when the Minister for Getting Rid of the Elderly, Matt Hancunt, swept the hospitals clean of those ghastly old people who clutter them up.
Aren’t they the ‘useless eaters’ the Globalists are so contemptuous of as they slurp and swig their” Krug Grande Cuvée” from Fortnum’s a steal at £190 a bottle?
Weren’t they really sacrificing the young, the poor and the not-so-poor for the ultra rich? Protecting the old was a pretence.
You need to write about the WHO treaty – they could make it happen any time and the government would say their hands are tied.
You need to provide some sources for this alleged “treaty” since it’s talked about a lot more than it’s cited.
https://www.who.int/news/item/01-12-2021-world-health-assembly-agrees-to-launch-process-to-develop-historic-global-accord-on-pandemic-prevention-preparedness-and-response
Here you go
https://www.who.int/news/item/01-12-2021-world-health-assembly-agrees-to-launch-process-to-develop-historic-global-accord-on-pandemic-prevention-preparedness-and-response
https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/news/2022/03/pandemic-treaty/45591/
This is one of the globalist sovereignty take over strategies, and there is an important meeting next month. One of the things that we certainly learnt from the last two years was that centralised decision making to the exclusion of experienced voices did not lead to happy results. This would be a totalitarian system imposed from without on this country and the rest of the world – they could declare a pandemic on almost grounds anywhere and impose martial law. Man countries for some reason seem enthusiastic. As with Digital ID, vaccine passports, central digital currency we need to urgently sit up and pay attention.
Although governments might well say that “their hands are tied” by international commitments (commitments which are cheerfully ignored in any number of situations), I doubt that they would gain greater compliance than they already have.
We can all see what they’re trying to do: we’re not imposing lockdowns, mask-wearing and “vaccine” mandates – it’s the WHO! For the good of humanity!
But I can’t see how it’s going to work for them in practical terms. If they think that the people who protested against and resisted these impositions from their local governments would be less inclined to do so, they have another think coming.
The UN and its agencies are even less respected than local authorities, at least some of which we can vote out of office from time to time – a fact which lends them a certain degree of acceptance.
Their edicts would have to be enforced locally by people who would appear to be WHO stooges (as distinct from local lackeys).
“For the greater good” and ‘in the public interest’ are two terms smuggled into their new ‘Bill of Rights’ to give them mandatory powers over our bodies.
Add these to the planned Gates/ WHO Mandates and it’s a done deal to secure forced vaccination – the EU is already planning to introduce it across Europe..
But …”Look over there! Ukraine!”
As for “enforcement “- look at Australia.
As for “enforcement “- look at Australia.
I live in it. It used to be very enjoyable.
I also live in Oz.
Used to be free and easy, now full of sheeple, rules and regulations, not based on any kind of proper scientific evidence, as they come in for their 4th shot, saying I had covid 2 weeks ago, and not seeing any irony in that statement.
A Gates “Global Power Grab to push his ‘vaccines’ – very frightening and Johnson’s gang are fully on board with it!
More waking-up to be done.
They are very obviously keeping it very quiet. Rather that scorning , you need to research it yourself like others have done!
A five minute search should do it
Exactly Johnson’s plan – which along with his “Ukraine Diversion” of course explains why he is smirking so much lately.
Russia is not signing the Gates WHO treaty ‘power grab’ and Trump left the Gates funded WHO – ( Biden unsurprisingly was told to rejoin at once).
If only people knew that this treaty means the end of their “bodily autonomy”and allows Mandate Vaccination by the WHO ( in effect Gates)?
But then would they even know what that meant – an NHS Senior Medic asked me what the ‘National Grid’ was the other day.
Latest data from pfizer shows that 3 out 133 breastfed baby got severe adverse reaction!
There are even bigger crimes!
If the babes take the milk from a vaccinated mother then they are taking in the spike proteins as well as the rest of the concoction!
Presumably that’s why they were so keen to get the pregnant and lactating women to get jabbed, regardless of zero research on the consequences .
The ‘darkness’ now comes between the child and its mother’s milk – just how much ‘darker’ does it need to get to wake the sheep?
Something which is supposed to be the very best start in life for a baby, (the longer they are breast fed the better they do) is now so potentially hazardous it could kill it. There are known cases in the US where infant deaths were caused by the spike protein via breast milk.
But of course the formula manufacturers will see their profits go up – an extension of big Pharma. So that will be all right then. Bit more wealth transfer achieved.
I think the apposite phrase is “stating the bl****ng obvious”.
One might be forgiven for thinking that all this child abuse was dreamt up by childless, unmarried freaks, in the mould of one C. Whitty.
Or Devi Sridhar. Sturgeon, Treasona May, Angela Merkel, Leo Varadkar, Macron, Stefan Löfven of Sweden, Xavier Bettel of Luxembourg.
No children of their own, so obsessed with appropriating ours.
My husband’s little granddaughter has just turned two. Fortunately she has sensible parents who have never worn masks, neither have they had any jabs. They have made sure she sees the wider family regularly, none of whom wear masks as far as I know. She is a delightful child who, so far, seems unaffected by the last two years of madness, for which we are truly thankful.
She is one of the lucky ones.
“Not a psycho”
Not a human either!
“Alien Invasion Alert”!
Perfect likeness!
Is it pure coincidence that the Head Dalek in ‘Dr Who’ is called Davros and looks like the love-child of Schwab and Soros?
‘The Mould of Chris Whitty’
…didn’t James Herbert once write a horror novel about that?
We were new grandparents during covid. We didn’t wear masks with our granddaughter and did our best to encourage the family to do the same. Fortunately she seems fine. She had her first shoes at a shop that only fitted young children. The assistant wore a mask and our granddaughter pulled back from her. “Just a typical covid baby,” was the assistant’s response. It says it all. Covid babies were already noticeably different.
“Covid baby”.
That expression makes me shudder.
Me too
Surely a typical ‘Covid Baby’ would be habituated to the muzzles (and be unable to read expressions, etc)? Only those with sensible parents would find the face nappies alien.
Normal children can spot the weirdos.
Yes “Masks -popular with bandts and psychotic Midnight Ramblers seeking victims !
Shunned by ‘normal people’!
“Amanda Spielman, chief inspector, said the pandemic has created “lingering challenges”.
No, it was the actions of governments, bureaucrats, teaching staff and misguided parents.
Does permanent sickness and a deteriorating immune system equate to a “lingering” challenge?
Our Mandy need not worry too much – many will probably not be “lingering” for long!
This sounds like typical clickbait exaggeration.
Poor kids…..
But even the Telegraph (which hasnt been too bad in all of this) has fallen into the ‘because of the pandemic’ trap. It wasnt because of the pandemic, it was because of the response to the pandemic.
Lets not lose sight of who bears responsibility for this.
Its those who decided on the response, and those who decided to comply with it.. They must stand and fall 100% because of their decisions.
Society has got relearn about personal accountability.
A risk assessment on the back of a fag packet would have identified this, as well as the impact of shutting down the NHS, in about 5 minutes.
That’s exactly where r they did the calculation and got the result they wanted!
You really don’t still believe that any of this was “accidental” surely?
Did you see the madwoman on the Beeb telling all and sundry that anyone who refuses to jab their infants is responding wrongly to ‘misinformation’??? (I know I know, don’t look at the Beeb, but it jumped up and attacked me from Tw*tter)
Don’t use the beeb and don’t use twatter.
I enjoy tw*tter. I’m now following all sorts of interesting people, names I had long forgotten from my childhood like Pat Buchanan (ah the heady days when the McLaughlin Group used to yell at each other across a table for an hour). There was someone who started to retweet every vaxx injury they saw called “theysayitsrare”, I think they’ve had to move to Telegram though. Oh, there’s all sorts. Its interesting.
Have 20,000 died from Covid vaccines in Britain?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/how-many-people-have-died-from-the-covid-vaccines/
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How strange – the Yellow Card for March tells us it is only 2075 deaths (astonishingly hardly any change from last Autumn) obviously there must be a “transcription input operator error” and a nought is missing.
These problems are not being reported in Sweden, where primary schools and kindergartens have remained open the whole time, and where masks were not recommended.
How did Sweden manage to do that. Presumably it was the same infection that was supposed to be going around.
…and no, Swedish primary schools are not less densely populated than British primary schools.
Thank you Anders Tegnell.
Doesn’t Schwab’s “New Normal” involve children being take from their parents and ‘brought up’ as multigendered transhumans anyway? Or is that just another of those “Conspiracy Theories “we used to read about – like under-skin ‘chipping, digital Covid Vax Passports and all those self-forming crystal-like geometric structures the microscope reveals in the ‘vaccines’?
Does one of those babies who cannot communicate at least answer to the name of Boris Johnson?
What about the youths who have committed suicide through depression as they see no future? A relative of mine is the head of child care for a council and she informed us that in a “normal” year they see 5 or 6 youth suicides per year now they see 2 or 3 per week. It’s usually the high achieving males who are committing suicide as they have lost hope.
But what does that matter, granny was saved.
“Granny” was not saved – she died alone after being dosed with Midazolam.
One does have to say that long-term follow up studies of children in nations who do not go to school until the age of 6 or 7 shows no disadvantage compared to the UK.
I’m not minimising what is being said here, merely getting people to think whether school by the age of 4 is really quite as imperative as some might have it….
But what do they do up until that age? If it involves socialisation that’s probably going to be just as beneficial as formal teaching – and likely to have been severely curtailed in most countries over the past two years.
So after two years of placing children in detention deprived of normal socialising (despite having committed absorbability no crime) … people are surprised children are lacking social skills. And I bet they needed extremely well paid academics to work that out!
Probably rejects for SAGE membership.
Not thick enough for SAGE
“young children seem to have spent more time on screens and have started to use accents and voices from programmes they watched.”
Here’s an example of what kids can watch these days before the 9 O’Clock watershed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIw09Tr2Ijg
Very worried now about the diversion of my grandson’s intellectual development by subversive digital devices, which are destroying his imagination – asked to draw a “pirate” and a ‘Pirate Ship’ he drew a robot and an oval “pod” – the kind he sees on his ‘tablet’.
He is also obsessed with “Zombies” – the “Living Dead” – who could have guessed?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWcpE6bP0Qg Keep Them Docile With Drugs & Video Games
I would agree with that – my next door neighbour’s child sounds nothing like her parents and just like Dora the Explorer
So friends of ours both unjabbed just had their two young sons jabbed so the sons could go on a school ski trip. One of the sons ended in hospital with heart palpitations. Bonkers.
“Yellow Card” report submitted?
You will be pleased to hear that, after church last night in a conversation with two third year uni kids home for the holidays, they casually said about lockdowns, “oh well, if they do it again, I just won’t bother. I’m not going through that again. It didn’t work before”.
But if it comes to it, will they acutally rebel? Of those who say they will, a lot probably wouldn’t in reality.
I’ve noticed a marked increase in the number of face nappies in use over the past week, including outside and below the nose! Just shows that the government only has to turn up the fear dial a bit with the news of more “cases” and of the latest variant-of-a-variant-which-might-be-deadly-but-isn’t and the sheep soon start to fall in line!
But at least they’re saying it. And at Church last night there was only 1 mask, and I know for a fact that her son ‘tested positive’ last Thursday but was in church last night so my thought is that she was being careful of others (since presumably she thinks they work, or she wouldn’t wear one).
I wonder if my area is a bit odd. Very limited wearing of masks, we were back in church asap in September 2020, lots of visible noses throughout.
I think people will go through lockdowns again, to avoid fines. Looks like a lot of people have refused to pay their ‘penalties’ … only to get much bigger ones a few months later:
“The report revealed he had been fined by a local court for non-payment of a £200 police penalty notice after being caught without a face covering when he popped into a fried chicken takeaway.”
“The police waited until Derek got off the bus, then asked him for his name and address, saying he would be sent a penalty notice.
It duly came in the post. ‘But I never paid it,’ he says. As a result, he was prosecuted under the single justice system at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10677845/How-secret-courts-hitting-people-Covid-fines-without-realising-writes-SUE-REID.html
The psychological attack on the population has damaged the critical faculties of adults (bombarded with 3 pronged messages) to such an extent that some or many will be unable to help the development of their offspring.
The government has pushed the notion that it is the sole purveyor of ‘truth’ and no-one needs to look elsewhere for counterfacts. Intellectual ‘dwarfism’ is preferable for governments with an agenda to sell…”The Government will keep you safe in its bio secure arms”. Big Pharma will have all the (must have) ‘vaccines’, and Big Tech will be on hand to shadow ban reason logic and ( inconvenient) facts.
Tell me, Chief Inspector of Ofsted: is “down the line” the approved replacement for “in future”?
I bet Johnson and his new brood have no such problem. I bet also that Wilfred was crawling around the garden in Downing Street.
So many Grown ups knew this would happen. They have seen the results suppression in other cultures. However, we cannot let the Government or SAGE get away with this because they also knew. Most Governmental policies over the last fifty years have been to break down the family and isolate children from their parents.
the State has owned our children for a very long time. Hence the drug culture, the divorce culture, the education culture where teenagers go away from home to university at a very vulnerable time.
Parenting has been broken by policies that have no consideration for the importance of family life. Most young parents only have advice given by the State which never benefits the children.
Until we can return to the importance of motherhood, parenting and family as the central pillar of society, we will see society crumble to dust.
I only encounter very young children these days in the supermarket. They are almost all sat in a trolley facing a masked adult. The mummies are 80% masked. The older ladies, perhaps grannies? – are 100% masked. Yesterday the 4 people I saw fitting this description in Sainsbury’s were also on their mobile phones as I walked past. Out in the street, the mummies are not masked. The ‘grannies’ are. But here’s the thing: the children are all in front facing pushchairs. My own mum told me when I had my babies {whisper it} 35 years ago I should have a pushchair facing towards the person pushing so they can help the babies learn to talk. She said if something interesting loomed up ahead I should stop, swivel baby round and show her and repeat the word so she can see my lips. Dog. Tree. That sort of thing. Has everyone forgotten these things? How are children supposed to learn to talk if no-one talks to them?