Grandma

One feature about Oliver's learning of language is how he clings to forms that he is convinced are right. He can learn new words quickly, so when we were playing a game of skittles, he learned missed immediately. But once he has a word for something, he is unwilling to change.

When his little sister was born four months ago, his maternal grandmother came and stayed for a while, and he calls her popo. Now we are staying, and he is convinced that his paternal grandmother is also popo. We have tried to persuade him that she is grandma; but he won't have any of it, and he keeps on calling her popo. I'm not sure he has realised that they are two different people. Do they really look alike?His Grandma is on the left, and his Popo is on the right. Maybe we need to get them both here together so he can learn to differentiate between them.