Ming explains that children don't parse full sentences like we think they do. They guess meaning from gestures, context, and key words, the way foreigners navigate an unfamiliar language. When parents say their kid understands everything, the child is usually just reading the room.
Right. So for many times, when I go online for a consultation or people come to me back in the day in my clinic, parents will say, oh yeah, he just can't speak. But otherwise he understands everything. If I tell him to do, go there, take that, or whatever, he can do it. But at the same time, that's something that I always think, is that true or not? Like from parents report, is that true or not? They use the context to guess what you mean. Okay. So for instance, just like a foreigner in a foreign country, when a local speaks in their local language, the foreigner doesn't understand, they will use a lot of contexts, their hand gestures, the eyes. Right? The general what's happening around to guess what the person wants from them. Okay? Same as children. And they use it more often than you think. Instead of listening to the whole thing, they just need a guess. Right? So that's why they're not trained to listen. Okay. You don't have to understand the sentence as a whole, but if you get those two keywords, you're able to do the action.
