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Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later?

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EnsignWashout@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

If you want my advice, talk to them constantly as if you are the narrator, and smile and make eye contact at every opportunity.

This is great advice.

I’ve always done this, and my kids all started talking surprisingly early.

But my motive is just that it calms them.

Some baby fussiness comes from insecurity, and I find that a running narration makes them more relaxed about being set down and returned to - that kind of thing.

Basically they get the same comfort from my narration as I get from leaving the TV running when I’m alone in the house.

I don’t know (or worry about) if it really makes any serious long term difference - but it was occasionally convenient as heck when they could tell me what they wanted a bit earlier than I (or anyone) expected them to.

With my last kid, I felt more brave and also mixed in some singing, and think they are more musically inclined because of it.

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Steve@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Im 100% sure it makes a difference.

Both of my kids were communicating with body language by like 6 weeks. For example I could say “do you want a bottle?” And they would get all excited, or not, if they werent hungry. Part of this is that you have to pay attention to them and respond. The feedback is what helps them learn fast, which they cant get from TV.

(I dint have anything anything against TV, just saying its not a substitute for human interaction)

They are 4 and 7 now and both have a surprisingly large vocabulary and speak clearly.

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