Raising a toddler has demonstrated to me how much bullshit the idea of "kids are language sponges" is. My kid is like an ESL speaker: he doesn't understand gram

Raising a toddler has demonstrated to me how much bullshit the idea of "kids are language sponges" is. My kid is like an ESL speaker: he doesn't understand grammar, he often will swallow sentences when he lacks the vocabulary to complete them, and he regularly mixes up word order and so on. He's been learning full-time in an immersion environment for several years. I'm pretty sure an adult that received this kind of immersive education would have been a much better English speaker by now.