mtnlites
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Yes I'm glad he is found but to not have a concern abt this repeated phrase seemes foolhardy to me. Said he was repeating "here all night" when they found him? "here all night", "here all night" is that a concept a child of 22 months knows how to articulate and express verbally? They have 0 concept of time & some don't understand night from morning yet. They may know the sun from the moon & sleep. Was this a question of him initially? I'm a little thrown off by that. Anybody here that can help us work through that?
My toddlers always had trouble with time in that "yesterday" could mean the day or week before. Tomorrow, yesterday, today, etc. were always difficult for them to grasp. However, they had pretty good grasps of "day" and "night" since one was dark and one was not. I could see him saying that he had been there "all night" because it did grow dark on him and then light again. Even my 7yo argues with me because she doesn't understand that 4am is technically "early in the morning." To her it's dark so it has to be night. He may not have been able to ascertain the fact that more than one night passed, but I think he could tell that at least one day had gone by.
Little kids like that often don't have filters. They sometimes have trouble with knowing "truth" and "lie." They're remarkably glib and honest at that age. If he'd been somewhere else during that time, I don't think he'd be able to keep that information to himself.