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I always carried on full conversations with my little ones, so did my MIL. I think it really helps with their security, language development and listening skills. Do you guys talk to your babies too?
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I did. I cant imagine not talking and singing to them. Heck I talked to them all the time when they were in my belly! Of course not when anyone was looking.
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Good lordy yes all the time. he loves it!! we talk all the time
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Yes, I'm always describing things to him and reading books.
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Yes, I talked to my babies from the very beginning in complete sentences using all kinds of descriptive words and in my normal voice (most of the time)! I never had to teach my kids right from left or colors, etc. because they already knew these things from being talked to at such an early age!
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Yes I always talk to my kids even when they didn't understand what I was saying. It's always funny to me to see other mothers in the grocery store and they spend an hour shopping and not even talk to their baby unless they cry. I go through the whole store asking their opinion on everything I buy and tell them about stuff and they could only look at me and not even say anything back. Maybe I am the annoying mom in public because I when we wait in check out lines we are always playing games and singing and others are always just standing there not doing anything with their kids. Now that my kids are getting older (almost 4 & 2) they can talk back and they are both still learning everything they can. How else are they going to learn it if I don't talk to them and tell them about everything.
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I agree with talking to them intelligently from the start. The grandparents drove me nuts with babytalk and slurring when they talked to my daughter. It wasn't bad when she was a baby but when she was learning to talk I was very irritated. It was probably bad but I didn't even like them referring to her hands as patties.
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My mom used to drive me nuts with the "babytalk" that she did around my kids and my niece and nephews. Dh and I always thought that it was better to just talk like you are talking to anyone else. Both my kids were very early talkers and especially ds, he just seemed to have this grown-up vocabulary from a very early age. I think using this way of speaking to children really enhances their vocabularies and comprehension. They might not understand what you are saying at first, but they will. My 2 yr. old will answer questions and then restate what she wants to say by using, "Well, actually mom, ....." These tiny adults just crack me up!
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Everyone in my family would laugh at me when I would talk to my oldest DS when he was little. They would say, you are talking to him like he is an adult, like he understands what you are saying. " but he did and he does. You can reason with him, I think it was the best thing I could have done. & I'm doing it again with my baby ds.
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I have always been more on the quiet side, but I make an extra effort to talk to my little one about every thing!!!! That way he can learn what things are called and he will be better prepared to express things on his own one day.