Like color, shape, number. It all builds on yet more language. You have to teach them "Same" "similar" "different". But dang...

there are so many factors of like and unlike.

have them compare a red square with a blue rectangle and their head might explode.

ITS LIKE TRYING TO EXPLAIN GREEN TO A BLIND MAN.

little brains blow my friggin mind. it's amazing how far we've come when you think back to how new the world used to be.

it's fun usually just through examples and familiar things. like food..

books help, too. and you wouldn't say complicated things anyway.. like red square and blue rectangle, they would learn colour first

then shape, after. i remember teaching the alphabet to Phil, THAT was frustrating, but using comparisons was best.

C is for CAT. what does cat start with? C!

C IS FOR COOKIEEEE

children are smarter than adults... that part of you that exists before conditioning is INCREDIBLE

Do me a favor and don't babytalk baby forney o_o

god no. i refuse.

how does that develop language skills by any means?

how else would the baby learn to say goo goo gah gah

It doesn't.

And don't make weird noises around baby forney either. like whining and bitching.

wow yeah i DESPISE babytalk

i'm glad that's consensus here... i feel like it sets them back in speech quite a bit

I talk to my niece in proper unbroken english.. and I reprimand her until she responds correctly.

hah, awesome! seriously - articulation is one of the BIGGEST keys to success.

haha reprimand makes you sound like you're an asshole about it... but it's definitely important... babytalk is a language that everyone

speaks and nobody understands... we're supposed to teach them... not imitate them.....

babies were MADE to be reprimanded!

When she was born, I told myself I would never spoil her with love until she's old enough to understand it.

you sound like the movie mentor... hard love... and then misunderstood sacrifice... and then martyrdom.

sandaldjepit.com/emo/yoy...

agreed.. most women friends and relatives will go gooey at the sight of them but it's different when you live with them

it's easier to treat them like people if you're with them all day

i loved when matt (coworker) was here with his kid trying to explain why it was harder for "daddy" to hold the drink for him while he drank

something about physics and forces...i dont know, he went onto some insane tangent.

but the poor kid was just staring blankly like "NOT THIS AGAIN!"

haahaha aww silly

i'd just say "because i don't know how much you want!"

hahahaaha. THAT'S SO FRIGGIN SIMPLE. i totally was thinking like matt.

oh the glories of boys vs girls.

<3

you really have to think like they do. maybe girls are just better at that? no idea.

it's a mom thing. totally..