Baby Talk: Learning Your Baby’s Language with Communication and Play

My New Life

Kate Garlinge

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4.7 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Ever get the feeling like you are babbling more than your baby? It turns out that going gaga over your baby actually serves a purpose. It helps them with language acquisition! Their brains are taking in loads of information from these back-and-forth interactions.

Jessica Rolph welcomes Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek to this episode to explore the characteristics of this early communication. Kathy is a professor in psychology at Temple University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She is also co-author of Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children.

Key Takeaways:

[1:12] How can a parent contribute to the building of communication skills?

[2:30] Remember to pause and create space for your baby to respond.

[3:24] Kathy talks about infant-directed speech.

[5:30] The back-and-forth conversation with a baby might be more important than we thought.

[6:30] Technology sometimes gets in the way of opportunities to communicate with our babies.

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Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children

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0:00.0	Parenthood is a time of so much change for you and your baby.
0:12.8	A little reliable information can go a long way towards making this new life a good life.
0:18.6	I'm Jessica Rolfe, and this is my new life, a love every podcast.
0:29.1	Okay, let's be real. Sometimes it sounds like a bunch of nonsense. The stuff that comes out of my
0:34.4	mouth when I'm around a baby is so goopy. But then I learned that all that baby talk will come so naturally to us as parents is actually
0:42.4	helping to build connections in our baby's brains.
0:45.7	They are taking in so much, especially from the simple back and forth interactions.
0:50.7	But what does that communication really look like?
0:53.4	Dr. Kathy Hirsch-Passick is a professor of psychology
0:56.3	at Temple University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She's co-author of Becoming
1:02.1	Brilliant, what science tells us about raising successful children. So Kathy, you study language
1:09.0	development. How can a parent build their baby's communication skills?
1:12.5	Well, the very best way to build a baby's communication skills is to communicate.
1:18.9	I know that seems trite and almost too simple.
1:22.6	But when we look into the eyes of the baby and we look at what they find interesting and we comment
1:30.5	on it, that's the very best thing that we can do to help build their communication and
1:37.9	later language skills.
1:40.2	When we let them take turns with us.
1:48.1	So we say, hi, you're looking so cute today.
1:50.0	And they go, ha.
1:52.5	And we go, yes, you did.
1:55.4	And we answer them with respect.
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