Ming from Agents of Speech argues that quizzing children backfires because kids learn to communicate just to stop the pressure, not to actually use language. When parents prioritize their own needs over what the child genuinely wants to say, children develop unhealthy relationships with talking.
You're annoying your kid. Why are you doing this? It's because you're coming from a place of your need, not their need, right? If you're coming from a place that you're thinking about the child's need, the need for learning language is just to fulfill so that you'll shut up and be quiet and stop asking. Then they will learn that as the means to the communication. And they will think that, oh, in order for my mom to be quiet, all I got to do is to run off, throw a tantrum, or copy what they say. Right? So if the child does learn how to copy what you say, they will stay there for a very long time because they thought that was the point. Okay?
