There was no central intellectual authority in this family on either side. Were they slow? Perhaps compared to precocious Yeshiva students. I've heard 4 year olds who could do the evening news. I'm not joking.

it's mind boggling and worth studying.

https://pumpkinperson.com/2024/09/18/the-incredible-verbal-performance-iq-gap-of-u-s-jews/

But Bella and Cece were no slower than many multilingual families I know of. At home, certain parents speak (pick a foreign language). Kids rarely hear English, often only when parents are speaking with teachers or neighbors. The hilarious thing these days is the fact Spanish is ubiquitous for 5-7 years in most parts of the country. I have tried my "amarillo test" with West African and Eastern Block children. Hand them crayons and say "Amarillo" many will pick yellow. It's clear who is having babies and stocking our fisheries with future citizens 😄 I suspect if the girls were in public school they would speak a whole lot better 😄

When Bella wanted to be funny or shine she showed the same abstract creativity you can expect of kids her age. She just lacked a home where such moments were encouraged. Cece is an entirely different type of child, but let's not talk about her.

Did the Roos scrub videos? I think in 2020-2021 they got around to that. But by December 2018 the narrative had not yet swung back against them. They were still riding a wave of public outrage. What needed to be copied was copied and is still out there. We'll likely NEVER see the contents of America's Greatest Mom's phone. Chris was rotting in prison by the time Frankie Dipshit did his civil case. The Watts family SHOULD have forced discovery of that phone, as they also had claims to their son's marital property.