{"id":154,"date":"2009-07-03T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/03\/kids-and-language-skills\/"},"modified":"2009-07-03T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T00:15:00","slug":"kids-and-language-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/03\/kids-and-language-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids and Language Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,255);\">According to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/hsn\/20090630\/hl_hsn\/talkwithkidsnotatthem;_ylt=AqO2HWiyxVFobHqhYT8zgu.pyLYF;_ylu=X3oDMTE2a284MXZ1BHBvcwMyBHNlYwN5bi1yLWItbGVmdARzbGsDZXYtdGFsa3dpdGhr\">this interesting article<\/a>, we may be concentrating on the wrong things when we try to improve our babies&#8217; and toddlers&#8217; vocabularies.&nbsp; Scientists found that it wasn&#8217;t actually TV that lowered their vocabularies or even how often parents talked to children.<\/p>\n<p>It was how often they talked <em>with<\/em> them.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the interaction, the <em>listening back<\/em>, that made the difference for these tots, ages 2 to 24 months.&nbsp; Language skills, speech and vocabulary went up the more the tots were talked with.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, improved language skills or not, everybody likes to be listened to.&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42<br \/><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this interesting article, we may be concentrating on the wrong things when we try to improve our babies&#8217; and toddlers&#8217; vocabularies.&nbsp; Scientists found that it wasn&#8217;t actually TV that lowered their vocabularies or even how often parents talked to children. It was how often they talked with them.&nbsp; It&#8217;s the interaction, the listening&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[36,219,227,237],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}