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Undoubtedly, there are many parents who know the importance of communication and language with their children, but few really know the true extent you may have this communication and how it can affect the development and understanding of small.

On this topic, there is a statement that after numerous studies can do: the intelligence of children is directly related to the number of words that they have heard from birth to age three.

This was the conclusion reached by Dana Suskind pediatric otolaryngologist at the University of Chicago Medical, which he found as in the recovery of their patients had a widespread trend. This was that children who come from wealthy families recovered more easily than those who came from families with few resources.

Doctor response found in a study carried just in 1995 por Betty Hart y Todd Risley, although I do not want to get into too much detail about this study, I think if it is important to highlight the three main conclusions that these researchers arrived:

1. The variation in children's intelligence and communication skills is related to the number of words that parents talk to their children.

2. The academic success of children ages 9 and 10 years old, is attributable to the number of words heard these children from birth to age three.

3. Advanced children's parents talk to their children more than parents of children who are not as advanced.

If you are interested in these studies and you want to know a little more about it. You can enter tmw. The Thirty Million Words, is an initiative I carried out by the Medical University of Chicago, to encourage parents to use language as a tool to shape and stimulate the brains of your children for the future.

I speak of these studies because I think it is important to be aware of the importance of language has and therefore how important it is that we stimulate it in the family. Every word you say your children are building your brain. This means that children are not born smart, become intelligent.

Coming up next, I'll give some guidelines and propose super simple activities that you can do at home with your children to stimulate language.

Guidelines for strengthening the language

First, There are several guidelines that you must consider when communicate with your children. The simple fact carry out these small actions, substantially improve your communication with small.

1No. When you come fellowship with kids I do it slowly, with sharper intonation and speaking more exaggerated form than usual to improve the discrimination of phonemes.

2º It is also very important, than set yourself up to the child for your eyes and your family are at the same level. There is a visual communication is essential to improve communication.

3When th corrijáis always do it in a positive way, that is to say, utiliceis no expressions like "not", "You said it wrong". We must find the right model tell but feel that it is a correction, for example, "Mom, watch a caught on", you: “Ah si, watch a dog".

For instance, when the child indicated by the raising of the voice that is asking a question but does not change the word order, we must tell the right way as a model. If he asks, "Mom at home?", we tell, "Is mom at home? And The, Mom is at home ". Others play family asked questions and so go to work the same structure correctly.

4º Search enrich the activities you do with your child, so that you will be expanding your vocabulary.

In one of my previous post, What we do today?, I proposed several types of activities that can be performed with small and that will help them expand and enrich their vocabulary.

5º Leverage situations that likes to establish a dialogue and are not enforced.

You can play him simple questions on "how to" perform certain activities. "How are we going to school?"" How do we open the door?"Gradually you can increase the difficulty of the questions, always taking advantage of situations that are pleasing to him.

6º Tell stories and tales in good times as bath time, before going to sleep, etc.

When you read a story, You can make simple questions about the story, it is good that ye do these questions before you begin the story so you know what you're going to ask. It is always good that you read at the same time and that time is nice for small. If you see that you are not paying much attention, start reading shift, first him, then you are going and gradually increasing the time listening.

7° Another interesting way to promote dialogue with your child is participate in the games you play and invent: "come, let's play shops, I am the shopkeeper and your client ... "

When you are playing or doing something, ask what you are doing and what is going to do next. Even if you see that you are watching other family members ask me tell you what they're doing.

8No. Let him participate in everyday situations, requesting orders at home and involving them with others.

You can play to give orders that do not relate, for example, “saves and closes the door toys”. It is important to reward the child and praising him for having done premiándole orders. If the child is not done, we make with him, while also we explain them, "We are keeping toys, village, very good!”.

Note that when we give an order to the child, They must be clear and concise, This we saw in the post where we talk about how to deal with disobedience. But should also be fun, After the children are, okay that include leaps and bounds. We say we want to listen to us carefully and make clear that we want to do what we ask.

In fact any aspect of everyday life can be a good tool to promote communication and language with your child, you just have to have a little imagination 😀

I hope this information will prove useful and above all that do them in practice.

Kisses to all

The man is only half himself. The other half is his expression.

Ralph In. Emerson

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