Toddlers learn many of their early language […] The post “When The Way You Talk To Your Toddler Starts Rubbing Off On Him” ...

You might have seen those heartwarming and often funny viral videos where parents or carers engage in long “talks” with young babies about this and that – usually just fun chit chat of no great ...

As a parent, you help your children learn skills to walk, talk, eat, and learn. As children grow into tweens, they need new skills to navigate feelings and emotions – and you’re the perfect person to ...

Adults might be hardwired to understand the nonsense baby-talk of toddlers, scientists have found. This ability of grown-ups to parse the early attempts of children to talk may also help the children ...

Videos of caregivers chatting with babies as if they’re adults are going viral and sparking conversation. Instead of relying on traditional “baby talk,” some parents are choosing to speak to their ...

When most adults, even older children, see an infant, they shamelessly slip into baby talk: Whooose a prettee baabee? Such a cuutiee. Their speech gets smoother, slower, higher pitched and sing-songy.

Dolphins and humans both change how they communicate when they're around babies. Peter Asprey via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 When adult humans meet a cooing infant, many can’t help ...

If you’ve ever cooed at a baby, you have participated in a special experience. Indeed, it’s an all but unique one: Whereas humans constantly chatter to their infants, other apes hardly ever do so, a ...

You know instantly when someone is speaking to an infant or small child. It turns out that dolphin mothers also use a kind of high-pitched baby talk. A study published Monday found that female ...