Does Size Indicate Intelligence?
Often parents assume that for some reason because children are small and they can’t talk and they can’t wipe their own noses and they can’t wipe their own bums, that they must be unintelligent, which is completely untrue!
Why Baby Talk is Completely Unnecessary
So we often talk down to them and use smaller words or baby talk, which is such a disservice to your child! Your child is absolutely capable of using the big words. You can read to them from the dictionary at night as a bedtime story and they would be absorbing the big words that you may not even be able to pronounce or understand yourself, but they are registering these words in their minds and it is building their vocabulary.
The Dictionary as a Bedtime Story?
Those are the words that they are going to use as they grow up. If you use talk baby talk with little Sally or little Jeffery as they grow up, as soon as Sally and Jeffery turns 4 or 5 years old, all of suddenly the cutesy phrases that used to be so adorable when they were younger, “I want a drink of wa-wa” or “Mommy, look at the bow-wow” are no longer cute.
All of a sudden it’s baby talk and they are sometimes even punished or made to feel that they did something wrong when in reality they are just using the words that you taught them to use. Now they have to relearn the “Proper language,” when they were perfectly capable of learning it in the first place.
100% Genuine! Give ‘Em the Real Thing!
One parenting tip I strongly emphasize to parents who are raising children, is to use the real words, use the real phrases when talking to your child because your child is capable of learning it.
