Baby Quote by Jane Brody

“The more parents talk to their children, even in the earliest moments of life, the better their kids’ linguistic abilities become”

— John Medina

Reading to babies creates such a special parent-child bond and so strongly influences a child's language skills that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends…

— Dorothy Bush Koch

From the earliest moments of life, children begin to learn the fundamentals of language. The most powerful influence for effective language development are the…

— David Perlmutter

The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.

— Mayim Bialik

Sometimes, it's hard for parents to talk to their children. It's all about learning that there are other ways to communicate, like through crafts,…

— Tabitha Brown

“How often a mother initiated a conversation with her child was not predictive of the language outcomes—what mattered was, if the infant initiated, whether…

— Po Bronson

Babies need social interactions with loving adults who talk with them, listen to their babblings, name objects for them, and give them opportunities to…

— Sandra Scarr

The question is the primary form of communication for little kids.

— Jim Gaffigan

“Every time I lectured to a group of parents-to-be about baby brain development,”

— John Medina

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants,…

— Augustus William Hare

Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could…

— Steven Pinker

If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and…

— Linda Darling-Hammond