Talk to your babies like adults constantly.

Hey guys, welcome to the Five Minute Fatherhood Podcast.

I'm your co-host, Jeff Bethke, along with my friend and mentor, Jeremy Pryor.

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What's up guys, Jeff and Jeremy here. Another episode of Five Minute Fatherhood. We have a fun

kind of lesson or thing we want to talk about based on a viral video you probably saw

from probably a couple weeks ago depending on when you're listening to this episode.

And it was of the father and the baby, I believe, on the couch.

And they were kind of having this normal conversation about life.

And the baby was just kind of, you could tell the baby had learned to almost mimic the father

so that it looked

like this, I don't know, six month old, eight month old was having a full blown, like heavy,

intellectual conversation with his father. And it was just hilarious and cute and amazing and

awesome. But there's actually a lot of research and data and things to suggest that this is actually

a very helpful exercise, not trying to get your kid to talk like an adult, but you talking to your kid, normal, you being very verbal to your kid, you expanding on a lot of words to your kid. But yeah, Jeremy, what did you think of it? Or what kind of, I know you found a study that totally kind of illustrates this. Yes. Yeah. I love that video. We're going to post that in the Five Minute Father of Facebook group. If you haven't seen it, you need to come and join our group

and take a look at this video. It's hilarious. Yeah, there was a 2014 Stanford study that really

bared out what was happening in this video. And again, it's this dad who's just his baby is talking

as if he or she, I think it was a boy, he was an adult.

And he was just baby talk.

But this is, this really, really helps kids become a lot more verbal.

And so we're encouraging you guys, talk to your babies like adults constantly.

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