The Washington Post – Ariana Eunjung Cha
“Think you have your hands full making sure your baby is fed and clean and gets enough sleep? Here’s another thing for the list: developing your child’s social skills by the way you talk. People used to think that social skills were something kids were born with, not taught. But a growing body of research shows that the environment a child grows up in as an infant and toddler can have a major impact on how they interact with others as they get older. And it turns out that a key factor may be the type of language they hear around them, even at an age when all they can do is babble.”(more)