The world is getting smaller globally and families that are of mixed cultures are becoming more common. Both parents then want their culture and language transferred to their children even in a country that speak a different language away from where they natively grew up in. So the question is how does one keep the pride of their culture and pass this on to their child, pass on a part of their identity.

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Toddlers & Language - by this stage as you have already established wonderful conversations with your child, you can now stop talking in ‘motherese’ - the high pitched tone that you used when they were babies. That can impede in their language development in learning how to really talk.

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When talking to infants, talk to them in ‘motherese’ which is the way we talk in a high pitched voice to a baby. This seems to come naturally to people when talking to young infants (and dogs at times!). Children at this age are only able to hear the high pitched tones in the human voice and thus effective if you want to interact verbally with your child.

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Many parents are curious about baby sign language. Sign language was made popular by the movie “Meet the Fockers” where Robert De Niro’s character was teaching his grand child to communicate.

So the question is: Is sign language effective and helpful to non speaking children or is it just a novel child minding strategy that is popular at the moment?

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