In the era when I was growing up, many parents baby-talk with their kids. When I say baby-talk, I mean they use their unique baby language when communicating with their children. It could be a slant to pronounciation of a word here and there or using a cuter substitute to represent a word or phrase just to make talking and words more fun.
But nowadays, I noticed that parents do not baby-talk with their children that much anymore. I believe it is a change from parenting stlye and perhaps it’s also got to do with the lifestyle we have today.
I didn’t think much about how I would communicate with my own kid when I was pregnant and even after Ryan was born. The communication just took its own natural course and we found that we were not really into baby-talks with him from the start. Because of that, I find Ryan speaking just like us adults, with no baby language in him whatsoever.
I believe that this makes a child a better and more confident speaker as he or she grows up and lessens the speech anxiety when they are being spoken to by just about anybody.
In my opinion, those who are used to using baby language will have to adopt a different style of speech as they grow up because they find that the baby language they use at home isn’t quite working with other kids or adults they come in contact with. To un-learn and re-learn is not that easy to do, especially if a child is not easily adaptable.
This is just my personal opinion. What do you think? Do you use baby language with your kids?
