Talking With Your Baby

The ways that you can communicate with your baby can vary in format, and the manner may differ from parent to parent. However, its never to early to begin talking to your baby and helping her to learn about rules of her native language.

Her are a few tips that you may find useful:

Keep it simple:
Simple conversation about anything is sure to delight your baby because its the actual words, phonetics and the way that sentences flow that are of most interest to babies. You can spend time speaking simple ordinary words and sentences which help with language development, such words as "mommy","daddy" "baby" are just a few example words. Most babies first words begin with the constants "b","d" and "m", hence words like "ba-ba" "da-da" and "ma-ma".

Make reading fun:
Many parents begin to ready to their baby while in utero and there is certainly nothing wrong with that. You can also begin reading to your newborn which can be a great activity that you can continue in a more engaged manner as your baby becomes older. You can read anything to your baby, perhaps your favorite novel, the daily newspaper or even magazine article, its all beneficial to your baby!

Grammar rules:
Many young talkers have difficulty with the usage of pronouns such as "I" "he", "she" and "me" and quite often will use them incorrectly because they don't understand that "I" can still refer to you (mommy) for example. You can structure simple sentences without the usage of those pronouns to make it easier until that concept is grasped.

Initiative conversation
If your baby is happily babbling, join right in and engage in some good conversation. Try taking turns while allowing her to babble for a while and see if she stops so that you can talk back to her for a while, then you stop and see if she responds back. The key point is that you are talking with your baby in a conversational exchange versus simply talking to her which is less interactive. This is great when your baby is more advances and has gained some verbal ability. You can engage as long as he wants to, and the sessions can vary in length, however, take cues from your baby when to end the conversation. Your baby may begin to look away,become fussy or cry which are indicative of conversation over.


Questions galore:
When the time is right, you will be flooded with questions from your curious toddler about anything and everything. However, in the mean time you can ask your baby lots of questions until then. You may certainly find that you have already been having conversations with your baby about the task that you are about to begin such as a diaper change or even bath. Perhaps you have even been asking questions and although you certainly don't expect an answer its just something that naturally occurs between a parent and their baby. Many studies have shown that babies whose parents to them consistently develop language skills and become early talkers.