Wednesday, September 19, 2007
relating Mondays class
I am the proud mother of a 2 and a half year old boy and the topics we covered in class Monday night were so helpful for me. I consider him to be soooo smart and great at everything, because I am his mother, of course. But I thought it was very cool to learn how speech is produced at the same time as him becoming a jabber box. He is really ahead for his age in his speaking. I am around many 3 and 4 year olds who do not talk as clear and have the size of vocabulary as he does. One thing I believe really helps a child grow in speech is being talked to as a grown up. Baby talk is sometimes a hindrance to a child when they always hear it.
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I agree, baby talk is wrong for children. Kids need to learn how to talk with a good voice. I believe baby talk can hurt children in the long run.
Anita Spence
How do you talk to a 10 month old vs. a 2 year old vs. a 5 year old vs. a 10 year old vs. a 16 year old? Are you saying there should be no difference?
I think that baby talk has nothing to do with how the child's language develops. My parents talked to me in a baby voice and my language development was never dalayed. Maybe there is a age where the baby talk should stop, but i think it is harmless while the child is an infant.
I spoke to my son with baby talk when he was really small but I feel there the parent mispronouncing words when talking to their child while they are learning to talk can be a problem. The child can pick up those mispronunciations and not learn the right way to say their r's for instance.
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