Use Your Words

Swallows and Amazons explains how frequent communication with your baby can help boost his or her speech and cognitive development.

During the first three years of your baby’s life, the brain grows faster than at any other time. Its architecture of neurons and synapses build rapidly, developing through stimulation and interaction with the world around your baby. These early years will affect your child’s ability to learn later in life.

Don’t Stop Talking

A study published on early childhood organisation, Talk To Your Baby’s website, found that children from talkative families may have heard 30 million more words directed to them by age 3 than children raised in less-talkative families. The same study also showed that the more words the children had heard by age 3, the better they did on tests of cognitive development.