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The ability to use language well is one of the greatest gifts you can give your children. Helping them to communicate, to listen, and to understand, will build the foundation of their future learning. BabyTalk is a revolutionary programme for babies and children up to the age of four from leading language therapist Dr Sally Ward. The programme will:--optimise your child's language development--Enhance your child's ability to concentrate and learn--Enrich your child's imaginative play--Maximise the potential of your child's intelligenceThe BabyTalk programme takes just half an hour of playtime a day, is simple, stress-free, easily followed by any parent, carer or childcare professional - and above all, is great fun! (20030513)
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The thing about the baby book industry is that there are so many books putting forward so many differing views, that you can always find one or two which agree with your own basic instincts about how you want to bring up your baby. I'm convinced that, like us, most parents who have favourite books are simply recommending those confirming the approach they wanted to take with their child anyway. I don't know of any parents who read a book and suddenly decided they should be far more strict, or far more laid back (or whatever) than they had intended to be.
"Babytalk" was one of many, many child development books we either bought or were given when our baby was born six years ago. We have a number which we look back on approvingly, but in truth, they all have the same general themes, and when I look at them, did they make us do anything which we wouldn't have done otherwise? Probably not.
"Babytalk" is different. It really did give us some ideas which - whilst they went along with our basic instincts - we might not have had the conviction to do otherwise. "Babytalk" is about giving your child a good grounding in communication for life. The results of this might take several years to show themselves; it's not a "quick fix" to get them to say words and sentences at an earlier age than other children. It's about understanding the purpose of communication. Now, at the age of six, our child knows how to speak and how to listen - in other words, how to communicate efficiently. He learns very quickly, and has an excellent level of comprehension. Would he have been this good at speaking, reading and writing without "Babytalk"? We will never know. Many people say this is all programmed genetically anyway (read "Freakonomics", people!). But all I can say is that "Babytalk" simply made sense to us.
You may hate the idea, in this day and age, of not having background music on around the house when you're interacting with your baby. You may hate the idea of not sticking them in front of the TV for the first two years. All this makes life that bit harder. But it does make sense. The author will convince you so. If you don't want to be convinced, don't buy the book. But we think it was a great plan to follow, almost from birth.
"Babytalk" was one of many, many child development books we either bought or were given when our baby was born six years ago. We have a number which we look back on approvingly, but in truth, they all have the same general themes, and when I look at them, did they make us do anything which we wouldn't have done otherwise? Probably not.
"Babytalk" is different. It really did give us some ideas which - whilst they went along with our basic instincts - we might not have had the conviction to do otherwise. "Babytalk" is about giving your child a good grounding in communication for life. The results of this might take several years to show themselves; it's not a "quick fix" to get them to say words and sentences at an earlier age than other children. It's about understanding the purpose of communication. Now, at the age of six, our child knows how to speak and how to listen - in other words, how to communicate efficiently. He learns very quickly, and has an excellent level of comprehension. Would he have been this good at speaking, reading and writing without "Babytalk"? We will never know. Many people say this is all programmed genetically anyway (read "Freakonomics", people!). But all I can say is that "Babytalk" simply made sense to us.
You may hate the idea, in this day and age, of not having background music on around the house when you're interacting with your baby. You may hate the idea of not sticking them in front of the TV for the first two years. All this makes life that bit harder. But it does make sense. The author will convince you so. If you don't want to be convinced, don't buy the book. But we think it was a great plan to follow, almost from birth.
Very good book with some very helpful tips to give your child the best chance of good speech development. I'd definitely recommend this book to anyone.
As older (late 30's) first-time parents we were very set in our adult-life ways and found the first months of parenting very difficult like so many other folk do, largely because of our inability to communicate with our baby. We asked our health visitor to recommend a book about child development as we knew nothing about how children learn and grow. She suggested Baby Talk and we are both SO glad that she did!
We didn't stick rigidly to the "programme", but took the principles of Dr Ward's explanations and advice and used them and asked grandparents to use them as well. We now have a just-two-year-old who talks AND listens like a 3 1/2 year old. This is making the "terrible two's" SO much easier as she can tell us what she is trying to do and really listens when we try to help her - avoiding many (not all) of the frustrated explosions that this stage can bring. Her listening is superb, correctly identifying sounds some distance away and quickly picking up and repeating tunes and lyrics of songs we sing. She is now enjoying learning the alphabet and is absorbing 4-5 new words daily, including some French.
We are still picking up the book regularly to check what we're doing and help us not to expect too much from her.
Highly recommended for parents and carers who want children that can listen as well as speak!
We didn't stick rigidly to the "programme", but took the principles of Dr Ward's explanations and advice and used them and asked grandparents to use them as well. We now have a just-two-year-old who talks AND listens like a 3 1/2 year old. This is making the "terrible two's" SO much easier as she can tell us what she is trying to do and really listens when we try to help her - avoiding many (not all) of the frustrated explosions that this stage can bring. Her listening is superb, correctly identifying sounds some distance away and quickly picking up and repeating tunes and lyrics of songs we sing. She is now enjoying learning the alphabet and is absorbing 4-5 new words daily, including some French.
We are still picking up the book regularly to check what we're doing and help us not to expect too much from her.
Highly recommended for parents and carers who want children that can listen as well as speak!
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clear and informative
Excellent book, very useful for ideas on stages of a babies language development. Clear, informative and interesting, written with parents in mind.
Published on 18 Jan 2010 by A. Otaqui
babytalk.. eh ?
I did not find this book to be helpful to me and my situation. It is filled with numerous activities to do with children beginning from birth and if that is exactly what you are... Read more
Published on 21 Feb 2006
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