Most babies start babbling and talking at about 1 year old, and those who speak early can even say simple sentences at more than 1 year old. However, there are babies who open their mouths later, and babies who speak late, in addition to genetic and physiological factors, the family environment also plays an important role in raising them. Infancy is a critical period of language initiation for babies, parents are the best initiation teachers for babies, and the family is the best language initiation school for babies. If you create a good language environment for your baby during the critical period of brain development between the ages of 0 and 3, you will be able to promote your baby’s language development. On the contrary, if babies lack the appropriate language environment after birth, their language skills will be affected to varying degrees. A good language environment in the early years is crucial for your baby’s language development. At the BabyBaby consultation clinic, we often encounter babies who come in because they are lagging behind in language. How can I create a good language environment for my baby? In general, babies growing up in a normal environment go through several key stages of language development, and giving appropriate guidance at different stages can effectively promote your baby’s language development. 1~6 months Learning to pronounce sounds At this stage, you should often talk to your baby face to face, speak slowly, and exaggerate your mouth shape. Although your little one will not give you any response at first, he will start to remember your mouth shape. By listening to the sound and looking at the mouth shape, your baby will gradually make simple syllables like “ah” and “yah”, and you can imitate your baby’s pronunciation with the same tone of voice to affirm your baby’s language. This is the most basic language communication with your baby. 7~12 months Babies can gradually understand part of the adult’s language at this age. What you need to do now is to help your baby recognize the people and things around you, and teach your baby to correspond the objects and names one by one. You are a bit like a living “repeater”, each vocabulary taught, the language must be uniform, accurate, and need to be repeated. For example: to recognize the lamp, you can hold the baby sitting in front of the lamp, pull the baby’s hand to touch the lampshade, turn the lamp on and off, repeat several times to increase the baby’s interest. Later, each time you pass, you can ask “baby, where is the lamp” (not a moment to ask where the lamp is, a moment to bright where). At this stage, we can teach babies to recognize their own family members, familiar toys, frequently touched household items, their own five senses and so on. 13~36 months Word and sentence stage After more than a year of vocabulary accumulation, most parents will find that their babies can express more and more words and progress faster and faster. Your baby can consciously say “daddy, mommy” and use single words like “rice” and “milk” to express their needs. Now you need to teach your baby to connect the scattered words into short statements, which requires your baby to understand the logical relationship between the statements. In daily life, give out more simple commands for your baby to carry out, such as “Baby, help mommy bring XX here”, and praise and affirm your baby’s timely response. In the process of baby’s language development, these mistakes parents must not make! 1, now the baby can not understand, do not have to say too much Although the baby temporarily can not understand or can not say, but as a parent, still insist on high standards to continue to say. In the baby’s newborn time, it is difficult to feedback and repeat what you say, but parents still need to insist that the language stimulation is still useful to the baby. After 42 minutes of life, babies are already aware of communication. There is also research that proves that telling stories to babies over three months of age can effectively influence their future language learning, and it is even better if it is complemented by good interaction and close physical contact, rather than dry and silly talk. 2, using electronic products to replace the communication with the baby Although babies can learn something on cell phones and television, but the process of watching television and cell phones is just a single baby receiving language information, and no language output and communication, which is not conducive to the development of baby language. If long-term exposure to electronic products will only make children lose more opportunities to socialize and express themselves. The baby’s language ability is individual, others’ babies can sing two lines of children’s songs, your family may just begin to call mom and dad, parents are advised not to blindly compare. In short, the development of baby’s language has its own intrinsic rules, able-bodied babies, as long as they grow up in a normal language environment, can eventually learn language, but there are individual differences in language ability. It is important for parents to create a good home language environment for their babies, so that they can develop their babies’ emotions, intelligence, self-care and social skills, and create a good start for their babies’ lives.