Communication and Your 4- to 7-Month-Old

Your baby’s range of sounds and facial expressions continues to grow, with lots of smiling, laughing, and babbling. Your baby is also imitating sounds, an important skill for learning to talk. How Babies Communicate Babies this age begin to experiment with the sounds they can make with their mouths. Your …

Communication and Your 2- to 3-Year-Old

Communicating with our kids is one of the most pleasurable and rewarding parts of parenting. Children learn by absorbing information through daily interactions and experiences not only with us, but with other adults, family members, other kids, and the world. Communicating With Your Child The more interactive conversation and play …

Communication and Your 1- to 3-Month-Old

This is an exciting time for parents, as babies this age make real progress in communicating. You and your baby will enjoy two-way “conversations” — exchanging smiles and oohs and aahs. And your baby’s personality begins to show as your little one becomes a more active and alert member of your family. How …

Communication and Your 1- to 2-Year-Old

Language development really takes off during this time, especially as your little one approaches the second birthday. Kids this age are better able to comprehend what is said to them and express what they want through words and gestures. They take joy in their ability to understand directions — and won’t …

Bonding With Your Baby

Bonding With Your Baby Bonding is the intense attachment that develops between parents and their baby. It makes parents want to shower their baby with love and affection and to protect and care for their little one. Bonding gets parents up in the middle of the night to feed their hungry …