baby talk or grown up talk?

I don't like baby talk I have always talked to my children in normal talk. I watched a friend use baby talk and did not correct her daughter even at the age of 4 and when she started school it posed a problem they wanted to put her in a speech class. my friend got very upset and defensive about this. so I have always used normal talk.

i can't stand baby talk. first of all it's annoying. secondly it doesn't teach them anything. talk in a normal voice and use proper words and the kids will learn to talk properly at a younger age. what i don't get is people using words like baba for bottle, then they have to learn bottle later on. why learn 2 words and not just the proper word first. my daughter was never spoken to in baby language and she had no trouble at learn learning all the real words for things.

Baby talk is great when they are starting to coo and babble, but when they start trying to actually pronounce words, it's best to start talking to them in a regular voice. Imitating what they say when they are first starting to coo and babble gets them to respond to what you are doing. That is the first type of communication babies engage in, besides crying.

No I never talked baby talk to my kids. I would maybe talk in a sweeter voice but I do not say like goo goo ga ga stuff. I might use words like doopie instead of butt, but it is just cuter than saying butt to a child. Have I noticed that they talk better, no, but there are some words I do like to change. And NO words like widdle tenny, yuck...

Its better to talk a grown up talk to clarify the good talking habit of a baby.

Now when I was pregnant I swore I would not talk to my son as if he was only responsive if things ened in woo, or sie....Now he is two. I have done pretty good, but my husband still yells about certain things, like Cuppy-cup, or nicknames like butter-bean (no, I don't know how I got that) so I think some dgree of baby talk is reached but it is not to far.

We always used adult talk with the kids, modeled correct language and corrected them when they were wrong. Of course they used baby words and made up words as that is part of learning, but by the time they were 3 or 4 they were speaking in full sentences and very clearly. They have often been complemented on their speech so I think adult talk is better than baby talk.

I always talked in my regular voice too and it drove me nuts when people would use "baby talk" with my kids. I just don't see the point in it. I want my children to speak properly and use the right words not bubba for bottle and such. I just cannot understand why some people do this.

More than 'baby talk' I am guilty of using a specific tone of voice when talking to babies. Not the shrill kind used in typical'baby talk', but a slower, soothing tone. I plan on using proper English, and as a babywearer, my child will hear regular old proper English all the time, being so close to me. I don't think there's anything wrong with making noises back to babies when they are little and figuring out how to gurgle and such. I think it's fun for them to interact in 'noises'... Imitation is fun for babies, so I'll engage in that game any day.

I tended to speak in a normal but softer tone of voice when my children were babies, but now that they are growing up and can definitely try my patience to now end, I just talk to them like they are adults {without the swear words of course} and expect them to at least try to do what I want them to. ;0) I think that it is ok to speak to them both ways until they are reaching that point where they are trying to articulate their own words. Then they need to be spoken to in plain English so that they can enrich their own vocabulary skills. Otherwise, how will they know what the difference between baby talk and adult english is?