those of you with kids

Actually it is scary that you would brain wash her at such a young age. This is how a cute, lovable child is turned into an intolerant zealot.

jed wrote:

Actually it is scary that you would brain wash her at such a young age. This is how a cute, lovable child is turned into an intolerant zealot.

Amen to that! :)

She obviously will be a child with a moral compass. She will not follow the trends and whims of the world and culture. Right and wrong, good and bad do not change. Only selfish fools do and they call it progress while they leave personal responsibility behind.

I think we might have ourselves another regligion thread. Wooo hoo!

Perhaps you may enlighten all of us regarding the things that are right and wrong or good an bad. I've always been curious.

You're bad! You're ignorant! You're intolerant! You're slow! You're predictable!

Kids just pick up on some things that can't be explained. At least mine do. I'd say it was normal, and that at age 3 she surely has the capacity to remember something as long as the Lord's Prayer. Or maybe she's got a Rainman thing going on (just kidding) ...

fool detector wrote:

You're bad! You're ignorant! You're intolerant! You're slow! You're predictable!

My mom told me that I was righteous, intelligent, accepting, spritely, and, frankly, a bit of an enigma. I gotta sie with my ma on this one ;)

She's hoping you evolve.

Your daughter will constantly do and say things that you'll have no idea as to where it came from.

My oldest son, when he was three or four, developed this fascination with California. He'd be someplace where it was warm and sunny and say, "this looks just like California." And it did, when I thought about it. But he'd never been to California at the time and my wife and I certainly never talked about California in any significant way.

My 23-month old nephew counted to ten which is amazing for 23 months. You likely have a prodigy on your hands. Foster the girl's intelligence, not just the religious aspect.

el zola wrote:

My daughter just turned 3. I went to put her to bed tonight and we said a prayer. Out of nowhere, she recites the Lord's Prayer in its entirety. She got a little mumbly towards the end but 90% of if was clear as could be. I mean she’s heard it before but it’s not part of our daily routine or anything. Is this normal?

My daughter (4) occasionally does stuff like that - it can be pretty wild when she comes out of left field with something. If your daughter did this of her own volition, what could be wrong with it? Don't listen to some of the other posters - they are the intolerant ones. It's pretty funny that the people who claim to be the proponents of tolerance are really the zealots...

My mom knows full well that species evolve, not individuals, silly!

fool detector wrote:

She's hoping you evolve.

I would say this is pretty normal. We had read my daughter (<3 at the time) a book a few times and my wife noticed that she was reciting the book along with her. With the first few words she could could recite the entire page and keep going. It was a good 30-40 words per page for ~15 pages. As quick as she would do something like this, she would stop doing it and move on to something else. This stuff will come and go.

Are you sure you don't have a religious nutcase around coaching her without your permission? Maybe an uncle or aunt who isn't wrapped too tight? I know that's a fear I have since I have fundy in-laws. I figure a kid has enough to worry about just growing up and trying to have fun. Once they're 18, they can believe in any fairy god they want. I've also known too many people whose kids end up hating their guts when they finally do figure out that daddy and mommy were lying to them all those years about the invisible, magical and super-duper-fantastical fairy god.

Children can learn massive amounts of info at that young age... It is said that the best time to teach children foreign languages is from ages 1 -4 because their minds are able to learn much better than when they reach school age. To summarize, it's not unusual. Toddlers can "memorize" lots of stuff... Just keep reading to her.

Same here! My daughter also <3 does a lot of the same it never ceases to amaze me on the things she picks up and repeats, she "reads" books back to me all the time, I laugh when sometimes she uses the same inflections in her voice that her Mom and I use - whispering in parts where it was called for pausing in others or getting louder. She does the same with made up stories as well without the pictures, crap she blew me away the otehr ay when she recited stuff off of a Shopping list while we were at the store and she had heard it only once or twice

Anyway its fun and cool encourage her and enjoy it!

My daughter just turned three also. She can recite or sing dozens of childrens songs and stories, many of which are longer than the Lord's Prayer. Repetition is the answer. She wants me to sing songs and read stories to her over and over and over, and eventually, she can repeat the entire thing. I don't think this is unusual at all.

Kids pick up things so fast. my 3 year old gave me the remote to the t.v. lastnight and said, "here's the god damn remote."

el zola wrote:

My daughter just turned 3. I went to put her to bed tonight and we said a prayer. Out of nowhere, she recites the Lord's Prayer in its entirety. She got a little mumbly towards the end but 90% of if was clear as could be. I mean she’s heard it before but it’s not part of our daily routine or anything. Is this normal?

When you woke up today, did you say to yourself, "You know, I think I'll go on a running message board and brag just how goddamn brilliant my kid is!"? Your family holiday's complete with stories of how little daughter made boom-boom and vacation slides must be the oyster.

Don't take it personally. I'm pissed off at work and decided to blow off some steam. An anonymous message board poster is a much better target than my boss.