Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for October 30, 2010

Be afraid….Be VERY afraid.

Babies almost always have that effect, Max. Dad’ll grow out of it once she starts speaking on her own.

haha, and in a year or so he’ll not understand why she can’t speak clearly…

“It never ceases to amaze me how a baby can turn an other wise normal man into a babbling idiot.”

Col. Potter, Mash (It is a paraphrase)

Then Winchester comes in and proves his point.

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This same topic was handled brilliantly (and hilariously) by Tetes-a-Claques (a comedy group whose name is roughly translated as “whack upside the head”).

http://www.tac.tv/thegoogoosvid566 in English and http://www.tetesaclaques.tv/lesti-papoutesvid21 in French.

Even the layout is the same, except the Videos were done a number of years ago.

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Hey all just enjoy your little ones. Days will keep moving and your little ones will grow up either be great kids or you will be booting them out of the house. My two are three years apart and used to do a lot of activites together. Big brother and little sister. Little sis would put on brothers clothes. Now adults they have gone separate ways. I miss those days of brother and sister doing activities together.

Theeey’er Baaaack!

Babies whose caregivers talk to them in baby talk acquire their language better and faster than those whose caregivers talk to them in grown-up talk.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/episode2/babytalk/index.html

Big brothers and sisters like attention too!

strickmaedel- that’s contrary to what my sister’s friend did with her kid. She spoke to him in full sentences and he started doing the same at about 2 1/2 years old. Any child I’ve ever known who’s parents used baby talk on them took much longer to learn how to speak properly.

Thanks for that link, strickmaedel. It makes sense, and now I don’t feel guilty for talking baby talk to my 3-month-old granddaughter! It seems like for every scientific study there’s another one to contradict it.

Bad impression of Elmer Fudd

I love the fake grins on the kids’ faces in the last panel!

Altering pitch of voice and stretching out key sounds, as noted in the article, is one thing; purposely using mispronunciations of L’s and R’s is, IMO, quite another. It ends up reinforcing speech errors in the child that then take longer for them to kick.

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