The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.
We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.
Touch is our most highly developed sense when we are born, and it remains a fundamental mode of communication throughout a baby's first year and an important influence throughout a person's life.
Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
Kids are fabulous, but when you're home all day with an infant that can't talk, your brain starts to kind of melt, and I thought, 'I have to do something, or my brain is just going to liquefy.'
I have a very open line of communication with both my children.
I abhor 'baby talk.' I speak to kids like I would any other person, and they seem to respond to it.
When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different, I was used to it now, but with every child, for the first four months, I would accomplish nothing.