of open your mouth and talk

Sometimes when Lancerkid wants us to take something, he would point at the object. If he points at one object then it is ok. But if he points to an area with lots of things, then we would have to take one object at a time and asked him if that was what he wanted.

So just now, when he started pointing to the table, I decided to 'force' him to say what he wanted.

Lancerlord: Open your mouth and say what you want.

Lancerkid looked at me and opened his mouth wide wide but no words came out of his mouth.

Lancerlord: No no. You must say what you want. Open your mouth, talk.

Again, Lancerkid opened his mouth wide wide. Silence. Mouth opened so wide, can count his teeth.

At least he listened. Slowly we will have to teach him to speak up.