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For decades, scientists didn’t think babies could remember
much. Although parents and caregivers suspected that more was
going on inside their young children’s heads, many “experts”
thought babies experienced the world as simply a blur of
sights, sounds, smells and textures.
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Fortunately for parents, young children are amazing students.
They’re so good at learning, they do it even when we don’t
know we are teaching them. Children learn by watching,
hearing, feeling, and tasting the world around them. In a way,
your home is your child’s first classroom. Every waking hour,
you can bet your child is learning something.
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Sometime around seven to eight months of age infants start to
babble. These consonant-vowel combinations, like “ba”, often
include facial expressions, such as smiles or frowns. Babbling
is your infant’s way of playing with sounds and language.
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From birth to age five, children learn an astonishing amount
about how the world works. They learn how to speak and
understand a complex language, how objects that disappear from
view can still exist, and how people feel about events in
their lives. They are, as several researchers point out, among
the best learners in the universe.
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Researchers call the special way we talk to babies “motherese,”
or “parentese”. This sing-song speech, often accompanied by
exaggerated facial expressions, seems to be used by nearly
everyone who talks to a baby. We all love to do it—mothers,
fathers, grandparents, friends, even preschoolers addressing
younger brothers and sisters. And what’s more, babies seem to
like it too.
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