About This Session

ACTIVITY: Let's Talk Family

Encouraging little back-and-forth conversations with your baby Family edition, is the best way you can help them learn and develop language. Responding to your child with words, conversation and attention makes a big, positive impact on their learning and healthy development.

Materials From Home: Bring pictures of various family members

What is 'Parentese'?

Adults often already use sing-song speech and big facial expressions when they talk with babies. We stretch out the sounds of the words, and we love to make funny facial expressions. We also tend to repeat the same words or phrases over and over. Researchers call the ways we talk to babies “motherese,” “parentese,” or, more accurately, “caretakerese.” This unusual way of talking helps infants learn language. The stretched out vowels, high pitch, big facial expressions, and repeated words and phrases help babies learn sounds.

In fact, researchers have found that infants prefer parentese to the sounds of normal adult conversation.

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