Teach Baby to Talk

Many people don't realise that the time to start to teach baby to talk is from the moment baby is born.

Speaking to a baby automatically fires up the brain cells within the baby. As the child hears more words and is exposed to more ideas, brain connections are made which leads to better understanding. Although your baby can't speak when he is born, he can hear, has emotions he needs to express and has desperate need to hear voices and learn about the world he has arrived in. Everything you say to your baby from the moment she is born is being stored in baby's brain for later use, until the muscles in the mouth are developed enough for her to actually make the right sounds.

Babies learn to pronounce words by listening to words. They also learn how to put together simple sentences by listening to others. Talking to your baby from day one is actually teaching him or her how to talk. sets up a good base for later communication skills development such as reading and writing. It has been shown that the more a child is spoken to up to the age of three years, the larger the child's vocabulary grows. Children with the largest vocabularies at age three go on to make the most progress at school in later years. A child exposed to early vocabulary will often have a deeper level of understanding of words and ideas than those who did not.

Communication skills are also important at a social level. As your child grows, he or she will need to be able to express thoughts, feelings, goals, and other important issues with you and with others. By helping your child early on to learn words and ideas, he or she will be better able to express those thoughts to others.

The time you spend with your baby helping him or her to learn to talk is time invested in your relationship with each other. Because you are spending time with your child, he or she will feel loved and secure. This can lead to higher levels of confidence and self-esteem later on in life. This effect is longlasting. It lasts a lifetime. Learning to teach baby to talk isn't difficult or complicated