Do you baby talk with your baby or kids or pet?

I agree!I don't have kids yet but coming from a large family a new baby is always exciting and these people need to liven up and get real !!a little goo-goo ga-ga doesn't hurt. changing the pitch of our voices is a good things for development.

I don't know about the words we use, but the pitch/modulation of our voice and softness in speaking many of us adopt around babies can be considered instinctual. Very young children who are introduced to a baby for the first time will often "ooh" and "awe" in a gentle voice even if they don't make up words...it's been refered to as "motherese". Seriously, it's quite interesting, and not necessarily something we are conscious of. It is perhaps something ingrained in humans as a species, much like the ability to learn language.

thanks.

Well thank you for your input, but don't you feel a little embarrased when other adults hear you talk that way? When ever I hear adults talking that way it embarrases ME just to hear it.

I'm more embarrassed for people who mispronounce or misuse words who aren't aware that they are doing it.

lmfao

Silly is my thoughts exactly, but not fun silly-sorry. I think that you are hurting your child by talking that way.

shame on me for uttering sounds? are you all stuipid?? we are talking infants, and dogs. in case you didn't know, we first recognize pitches and sound waves/veriation. don't be so hard on kids to acheive some crazy level of perfection, it's no good for them. notice that I did not say that I only speak to children with "baby talk" I have lots of younger siblings and thanks to our group effort they all speak distinctly, clearly, and correctly. In fact because we are black and we live on the west side of Chicago( in the U.S) whites upon speaking to us have labeled us articulate( as if we should'nt know how to speak correct english). so liven up and live a little. things won't all go down the drain cause you didn't talk like an un-abridged dicitionary the first seconds you child was in our arms!

shame on u

Yes-it is.

I can't resist baby talk with my little cutie sometimes.

i totally understand. But even kids don;t like the baby talk after awhile. and i think the only reason animals react to it especially dogs is because baby talk is generally done in a high pitch tone of voice.

Thank you-that is good.

Okay, thank you. God Bless

Oh, I know what it means. When she starts squealing and babbling, I not only immitate her to encourage her to speak more but I revert to baby talk. Everything comes out squeaky and silly sounding.

When I say baby talk, I mean saying words you know how to say in a childish way, not clearly. I have read that it is good to make the same kind of sounds that your baby makes to talk with them and go back and forth with them. I do this with my 6 1/2 month old. Mostly it sounds like this, AHhhhhhhhhhh, ahhhhhhhhhhh. I am encouraging him to make the sounds that he does know how to make, and he will advance from there.

There is a difference between being goofey and baby talking, they can be separate.

Yes, I think using REAL words is a big help in learning a language and vocabulary. If you make up your own words it's just going to confuse the child.

Large words that they won't understand? Well they won't understand them at all if you keep on baby talking. I don't mean to offend you. I have a baby now and I talk to him with normal words from the dictionary-and not made up words.

I don't agree with shortening the words into baby talk, such as Baba. The baby will get use to saying it that way and you will also get use to that word and I dought that parents will extend the word to the fullness. I think that everyone should talk normal and baby talk should not even be used. Now talking with a different a different tone, softer or higher pitch is different then making up words for things that already have words. Why confuse kids, the world is hard enough.

That is normal, thanks for your response.

I guess when I say baby talk I mean saying things in a childish way. I agree with you that the cooing and gurgle sounds are good for babies to converse back and forth. But when the babies start talking wrong because they have been taught to say things in a childish way that makes me crazy.

You should talk to them that way, like a person, because that is what they are and will learn and grow into. Good job, it does take one day at a time to get through those days alone with the kids.

Yes, it's so degrading of yourself and whomever you are talking to.