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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nanny here. I talk with older kids but not so much with such small babies. It's not natural for me to do so. It doesn't mean I don't care, because I absolutely do ...
[b]They don't need so much talking at that age, let it go[/b].[/quote]

You are dead wrong, Nanny.  Please read up on early childhood development.  Babies absolutely need to hear as much language as possible as early as possible - narrating, reading, singing, and open conversation.

Talking to someone who cannot talk back is not natural to anyone, PP.  You do it because it is in the best interest of the child.  [/quote]

WRONG. I have helped raised over 25 children and didn't talk to them a lot when they were this young. They are regular kids, just as smart and sweet as other kids.
It doesn't make a difference to talk to them or not this early.[/quote]

You are out of date and very wrong, Nanny.  Please look it up.  Your former charges may well be "normal" but you have no idea how much higher their IQs would have been if you'd talked to them and narrated for them.

Either keep up with child development research or retire, Nanny.  [/quote]

+1  The data on the benefits of talking, narrating and reading to a child from birth to three are conclusive.  To use the line that babies not spoken to, "... are regular kids, just as smart and sweet as other kids" is challenging to prove a negative.  Research says they would have been "smarter" (greater ability to learn and retain" had they been spoken to.

Our nanny has always narrated for DD as well as had conversations with her, read to her and sang to her since the day we brought her home from the hospital and so did DH and I.  At three months, when we would tell her that we were going to pick her up she would tighten her muscles in anticipation.  At six months, when we told her we were going to put on her sock, she would kick out her little leg.  At 22 months old now she is speaking in full sentences, LOVES books, and is potty trained (because she understands language mostly but part is simply physical readiness).

Anyone who has ever tried to learn a second language knows that hearing the language is vital. Why would it be different for an infant?  [/quote]

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