The development of language skills in young children is closely related to the usual words and actions of parents or caregivers, and communication and exchange between parents or caregivers and children is the best foundation for language. Here are some tips to share with you on how to develop language skills in young children. 1, more talk to the baby Whether or not the child has reached the age of speech, parents usually have to talk to the baby more, you can say some small interesting things in life, but also on the simple call baby’s name. When parents have time, sitting next to the baby and chatting happily with the baby is actually a very happy thing. Babies may not respond to their parents with words, but they will be happy to look at their parents’ expressions or imitate their mouth patterns and babble on their own. It may be that the mother is just talking casually, but the baby is listening very carefully and he cares a lot about this feeling for language. 2, encourage the child to open up Even if the child can only say one or two words at a time, parents should use encouraging words and eyes to cheer the child up! Only through more talking and more practice will the child speak more and more. Parents can set up morning reading stories for their children when they wake up in the morning, and bedtime stories before they go to bed, so that their children can be inculcated in the language environment. Parents make time to teach their babies to speak, over and over again, with patience, babies cannot be taught once or twice and learn. Today taught a word, tomorrow to review, do not rush to teach new words, teach fast baby but will not learn. 3, listen to stories with your baby At the age when babies can’t read alone, parent-child reading is the best way to read. That is, the baby and mother together to read picture book stories, the mother can guide the baby to look at the pictures with words to frame the content of the pictures, although the child in a short period of time will not sort out the text, but through the guidance of parents or repeated several times to tell the child the content of the story, children will remember with an amazing memory, and then with their own language to understand the content of the pictures. This is why children who love to read books have better language skills. 4, create more opportunities for children to have the desire to actively express Now there are some small children to the age of speech does not speak, like to use body language or gestures to express needs, like to pull the caregiver’s hand to get what they want, or point with their fingers to take things, just do not speak. At this point, we caregivers need to provide opportunities or create situations for children to use language to actively express, rather than just let them use only gestures to express their daily lives.