Hello everyone, I am the second child mother Xiaoyan.
6 years ago, when Dabao was born, although I read some books on family education , I knew that I should talk to my children more to help them improve their language expression skills. But when I talk to my child, I always get questioned by people around me: "The child is so young and can't speak. What's the use of talking to her? What can she understand?"
Over time, I didn't see any results. I doubted myself. When I remembered, I talked more to Dabao, and I didn't say a word when I was busy. So much so that Dabao didn't speak much at the age of one and a half, and he started talking only after he was two years old.
Given the experience of raising a baby and the years of family education learning, I realized that there are traces of language development for babies aged 0-1. As long as parents do it properly, they can effectively improve children's vocabulary and promote their brain development.
The book "Parents' Language" says that family economic conditions and environment are not the starting line for children. The real starting line is the language environment of the family. Only when parents are positive and positive talkative parents can they improve their children's intelligence and let them win at the starting line.
So, for babies aged 0-1 who cannot speak and cannot communicate, how parents chat with them to improve their language skills and let them win at the starting line.
1. The caregiver talks to himself and tells the baby what he is doing
Some people think that the baby doesn’t understand anything and talking to them is useless, but parents who care for the baby will find that even a child who is born a few days ago can “understand” the parents’ words. Although they can’t speak, they have a keen observation and emotional awareness that can perceive emotional changes in parents.
So, don’t underestimate babies, but treat them like adults and chat with them.
The book "Parents' Language" points out that the development of language in infants and young children is inseparable from a normal developing brain, but also from a rich language environment. If parents communicate with their children more every day, their children's language ability will be well developed and will also promote the improvement of their intelligence level.
If a caregiver does not know how to communicate with the baby, then be a self-talking person, and tell the baby what we are doing, the scenery we see or the food we eat in a friendly and changing tone.
For example, when I changed my second baby's diapers, I told him: "Mom is changing your diapers for you, take off the used ones first. Wow, this diapers are a bit heavy..." When we take the baby out for a walk, we can describe the scenery they see: "Baby, mother saw a goldfish in the pool, and there was a white lotus..."
When we develop the habit of talking to the baby, the baby will accumulate more and more words, which will stimulate the development of their language hubs and improve their language ability.
2️, parents use exaggerated expressions to imitate pronunciation
Babies learn language through imitation. The lip shape and facial expressions we talk to the baby help the baby learn to imitate.
When we talk to our babies, we can use exaggerated expressions and tone, such as opening our mouths and sticking out tongues, to let the children pay attention to our mouth shape and facial expressions and attract their pronunciation.
The more interested the baby is, the more he will imitate us, respond to us, and have the desire to express himself.
3. Take your children out more often, so that they can contact different people and natural
Some people think that little babies don’t understand anything and can’t remember anything. It’s meaningless to take your children out to play? In fact, this is the wishful thinking of adults. It is really hard to take babies aged 0-1 to play. Not only do you have to bring a lot of things, including diapers, milk powder, water cups, tissues, toys, etc., babies are also prone to crying.
But taking them out to play more will not only let them contact larger people and environments, but also give them rich stimulation, which will help shape the brain neural pathway , but also give them more opportunities for language communication, allowing them to listen to different voices, enrich their lives, and broaden their knowledge.
So, when your children are in good condition, try to take the children out to play as much as possible. It is best to change to different routes or places to give them rich excitement.
️4. Babies like to repeat pronunciation, learn animal sounds with the baby more often. Repeated pronunciations and repetitions of words can help the baby pronunciation. When we talk to the baby, try to chat with the baby with familiar items, such as the small animals, cats and dogs around us, the nose, mouth, ears, eyes...
Specific and familiar life scenes can easily arouse the baby's desire to communicate. The content we chat with the baby is best to be familiar with the child. The around us can describe and feel them through the five senses such as hearing, vision, touch, smell, and taste.
In addition to these, we can also imitate the call of animals and the movements of animals with children to attract the interest of babies and stimulate their desire to communicate.
The book "Parents' Language" says that the more parents talk to their children, the faster the child's vocabulary grows, and the higher the IQ test will be after the age of three. It is impossible for parents who are not good at speaking to raise a child who is versatile.
So, if you want your children to become smart, parents should give them a rich language environment from the birth of their children. Only when a child has more language vocabulary, the child will have input and expression. What do you think?
