What Do I Talk About With My Baby?
For those of you who are familiar with my blog, you know the more you talk to your baby and toddler in the early formative years of birth to three, the better prepared they will be for academic success. Talking to your baby and/or toddler is one of the best ways to nurture your child’s language and cognitive skills!
But what to talk about with a little one? Often times our communication with our little ones, particularly toddlers, is business-oriented. For example, we say things like “don’t touch” or “stop that”…but we need to remember to extend our conversations beyond the daily routine. Embellish, embellish, embellish!
Talk about the objects in the room you’re in or talk about the items on the shelf in the grocery store when shopping. I love to use picture books with a baby and use every adjective I can think of when describing the picture to them. Instead of a red apple, I might say a rosy, shiny, glistening, delcious red or rojo apple! I like to throw in a little Spanish. Thanks to Dora the Explorer, I’m becoming fluent. Well, that’s a stretch, but I do know more words in Spanish than I used to know. I really do this with my daughter. I know the dividends are worth it!
You know what I’m going to say next: Get baby talking!
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