Speech in two months
Sounds produced by your child tell you what mood it is in. When a child "buzzes", this is his first attempt to express delight. Do not forget that speech consists not only of sounds, but also of facial expressions with gestures. Pay attention to the funny sounds accompanying your kid's smile. The initial part of the smile( when the mouth opens) is often accompanied by a short "a" or "y", followed by a long, sigh-like cooing sound when the smile becomes wider. In the second month, the child's vocalises range from short monosyllabic screams and cries to long expressive sounds: "e!", "A!", "Oh!" By the end of the second month, the throaty, low sounds of the child become higher, become more similar to vowels and becomemore musical;the child guzzles, squeals and publishes a throaty semblance of laughter. Sounds produced by the child during sleep, and amuse, and disturb parents. The child's breathing can make a rattling when the air passes through the accumulated saliva in the back of the pharynx - the same is explained by the perfectly normal rattling in the chest that you can now feel.
How mothers talk to children in two months
More than once during the first months you will wonder how much of what you say really comes to your child. Studies confirm that parents have long suspected: when the mother says, the child listens.
Let's conduct such a home video experiment. When your child is in a state of calm vigilance, establish eye contact and begin, as usual, talk to your child while your husband takes pictures of what is happening. When you look through the film, you will see that the language of the child's body and the mother's body language are synchronous. If you scroll the film in slow motion, you will notice that the movements of the head and body of the listening child resemble dance and the child dances to the rhythm of the mother's voice. Your words do reach the child, although you may not be able to see it.
Natural mother language.
You do not need to learn to talk to your child. It is given to you by nature. Mothers instinctively speak their mother tongue - high, animated tones and exaggerated facial expressions - when they turn to their children. They raise the voice, slow down the pace of speech and accentuate the stressed syllables more strongly. Note that you are using your whole face, stretching your mouth excessively while talking, and rounding your eyes. The characteristics of the maternal speech are precisely adjusted to the ability of the child to listen, and the mother slows down speech or accelerates it depending on the attention of the child. To ensure that the child does not miss the ears, the mothers instinctively stretch the vowels: "A good little girl."The way a mother says a child is more important than what she says.
Take turns. Mothers say, alternating crescendo with decrescendo, with gradually increasing and decreasing loudness, alternating their speech with pauses, giving the child time to digest each short vocal portion before the new one arrives. Although you may think that talking with a young child is a monologue, you naturally speak with the child as if it were a dialogue. A video analysis of the elegant art of mother's communication with the child shows that the mother behaves as if she imagines that the child is responding to her. It naturally shortens phrases and stretches pauses to exactly the length that corresponds to the time needed for the child's imaginary response, especially when she turns to the child inquiringly. For the child this is the very first lesson in the development of speech, in which the mother develops a child's ability to listen. The child keeps these skills acquired at an early age and puts them into use when he begins to speak.
Secrets of a conversation with a child
The above research results, during which a speech analysis was performed, show that each mother herself nature honors the honorary title of the teacher of native speech for her child. Below we provide tips that will help your early communication to unfold even better.
Look at the listener. Catch the look of the child before starting the conversation - you will be able to hold his attention for a longer time, and you will even have a better chance of receiving an approving response.
Call the child by name. Although a child may not associate his name with himself for several more months, if he often hears it, this will include a mental association, that it is a special sound that he has already heard before and which signals that a series of pleasant sounds will follow - inmuch as adults are animated by hearing a familiar melody.
Stay simple. Use short sentences of two or three words and one-two-syllable words with a lot of excessively stretched vowels: "Prelest Crown".As when composing a telegram, do not weight your dialogue with official words. Do not use the pronouns "I" and "me".They do not mean anything to the child. Talk about yourself "mom" and "dad" in the third person.
Bring conversation to life. When you say, "Wiggle the handle of a cat," wave your cat yourself. Children rather remember words associated with lively actions and gestures. Give your speech some liveliness, focusing on the end of the sentence. Highlight keywords. Select those words that cause the audience the greatest delight. Babies easily get tired, especially from the same old sound.
Ask questions. "Does Matthew want to eat?" "Let's go for bikes?" The interrogative form naturally stretches the final sound, as you expect the child's answer.
Talk about what you are doing. Carrying out everyday activities related to caring for a child - dressing a child, bathing or changing clothes, - tell us what you are doing, almost like a sports commentator describes the game: "And now daddy takes off the diaper. .. now we'll put on clean. .."This is perfectly normal, if at first you will feel a little stupid, but you are not talking to a stone wall. Before you is a little man with big ears, digesting every word and recording everything he heard on an endless film of memory.
Watch for green and red light. Wait and see if your child will give signs of invitation or encouragement( smile, continuous eye contact, gestures of widely spaced arms), like saying: "I like, keep talking".See also if there are any signs that indicate the child's desire to disconnect from your conversation( an empty look, the child looks away from your face and turns your head away from him), which should be understood as follows: "I have enough of this chatter, is it time to do something else, Something more interesting? "
Give the floor to the child. After asking the question, give the child time to respond. As if you were talking to an adult person, often pause to allow the child to insert a small cooing or delighted squeal. From a continuous monologue, the child will most likely turn off.
Organize feedback. If the child answers you or opens the conversation, smiling and wriggling all over the
body or charmingly ghoul, repeat his vocalysis. If you imitate his language, it will give him value and strengthen the child in trying to convey to you what he wanted to say.
Read the baby. Babies love jokes and rhymes with up and down swings. Reading aloud will help you to indulge in two fairy tales. If you read a two-year-old child while you are holding or perhaps breastfeeding a newborn, you can keep the attention of both restless children. There will be days when your adult mind will need more than "Mother Goose's Tales".Read the newborn aloud to your favorite magazine or book, reviving the intonation for the child's hearing.
Tell it to the music. Researchers of child development are convinced that singing activates more language centers of the brain than words without music. Even if you are not an opera star, you will have an enthusiastic audience, at least one person. Children of all ages like well-known songs, whether they are written by you or borrowed. Select the top ten hits of your child and play them more often. The desire that parents repeat the pleasure, soon make the child endlessly babble: "Again. .. again, Mom( or Dad)."
Relaxation of hands and hands. Clenched jaws and hands pressed to the trunk, observed in the first month, relax somewhat on the second, like reflexes that kept the muscles of the child in a strong strain, turn out to be overpowered by the developing brain, which says: "Relax and enjoy the world."Strongly pressed child's fingers bend one after another, and the palm opens. If you put a baby's rattle in the palm of your hand, he will grab the toy firmly and will keep it for a while. But do not expect that he will purposefully pull the to the toy, until the next month comes. A tightly clenched fist of a child does not want to release a precious toy. If
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