You might have seen those heartwarming and often funny viral videos where parents or carers engage in long “talks” with young babies about this and that – usually just fun chit chat of no great ...

Jane Herbert has received funding for these projects: 2012-15: Does promoting parents’ engagement with their infants benefit language development?” Nuffield Foundation (approx. £200,000). D Matthews ...

Videos of caregivers chatting with babies as if they’re adults are going viral and sparking conversation. Instead of relying on traditional “baby talk,” some parents are choosing to speak to their ...

Why is your baby suddenly waking at night again? A child psychiatrist explains the real reasons behind sleep regressions, and ...

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language. By Carl Zimmer If you’ve ever cooed at a baby, ...

It happens during that magical stage when a baby s babbling gradually changes from gibberish into syllables and eventually into that first mama or dada. Florida scientists discovered that starting ...

Babies learning how to talk will never not be the cutest thing ever, and Olivia Munn’s 1-year-old daughter proves that. She shared the cutest video of her baby Méi showing off her new word, and we can ...

TikTok user mak_and_momlife shared that she doesn’t talk to her baby and people had thoughts about it Meredith Wilshere is a Society and Culture writer at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared on ...

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