baby talk

Seriously?  Why does this even need to be discussed.  Do you understand that when all your baby hears is baby talk, that’s the only way he’s gonna know how to talk when he starts talking?

I hear people talking all goo-goo-ga-ga to their babies all of the time.  I, personally, think this is ridiculous.  It actually makes me a little nauseated to even hear it…

If you are, indeed a ‘baby talker’, when your baby starts talking, he or she is potentially gonna have some sort of speech impediment.  You may be one of the lucky ones whose kids come out brilliantly from years of baby talk torture… who knows.  AND most importantly, you are going to have to teach your baby how to talk twice!  After your baby figures out how to say ‘nap nap’, ‘eat eat’, ‘ba ba’, ‘num num’, then you have to teach the right words later on in their life! 

To reiterate my point of view on the baby talk:  Change your tone of voice, yes!  Don’t say different words.  If your tone of voice is soothing and comforting, that is what babies respond to.  They are little sponges though, learning every second.  Happy tones, giggles, smiles, REAL words.

Why not teach them the right way the first time.  Seems logical to me….

We never talked ‘baby talk’ to our first son and he was speaking in complete sentences by the time he was 1.  He clearly said ‘Daddy’ at 6 months old.  He is now 4 and I am and always have been very impressed with his verbal skills.