As I sat on the couch today Little A decided he wanted up on the couch. He got ready to climb up, looked at me and with a knowing grin he placed his leg up and said:

“Uut, Uut,” in our household this is clearly UP. I placed my hand under his foot and he boosted his body onto the couch and grabbed a book and happily sat right beside me pretending to read. Or who knows, maybe he was reading.

A few other words he says with confidence are:

Bus with a long U, when he sees a yellow bus.

Meow- when he sees a cat nearby or in a picture.

Bubby- his brother

OWT- pronounced with a “w” sound which means out.

book

vvroom- which is a car

Bar-Bar- this is the favorite purple dinosaur, BARNEY.

What are some words your baby says with confidence? How do you encourage your child to use more words? (I’ll be writing a piece on this during the week, can’t wait for your responses here)

Post from: Babylune

The Power of Talk Study shows the best thing a parent can do is talk with their children, this includes babies. Many times a parent will talk baby talk and not use real words. However, those that are talked to a lot and with real words do better at test scores and actually become smarter.

Counts words he hears and at the end of the day you can discover how many words you said to him. This is a device you plug into your computer and it’ll make graphs on how many words used. No, you can’t cheat it either, after all why would you.

Read, Sing or just talk with your child. It doesn’t matter if you tell them about the room they are in or about what you two have done throughout the day. Even moms and dads outside the home can come home and tell them what they did or saw during the day.

According to the reports a baby should hear 17-30,000 words a day is the best bet. Oh and over 9 million by the time they are 3-years-old. What was the last thing you said to your baby?

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