Engage your baby in some serious "coo"

Musical Parenting Tip:  Speak, sing, and make voice sounds with your young baby!

Why?

• Exchanges of cooings, babblings, smiles, gestures, eye contacts, and tonal babbling are all part of vocal play.  As a communication game between adult and baby, it's basic components consist of touching, observing, gazing, listening, and imitating. 
• Pausing and waiting during vocal play demonstrates the important conversational element of 'turn-taking.' 
• Baby's responses to verbalizations are a rudimentary form of speech, language development, and conversation.

How?

• Log into your Kindermusik @ Home account, and watch the Baby Talk video!  Learn about your child's language processing, and why games with vocal play are important to learning. 
• Refresh your knowledge of the sign language for the animals we've sung about, then add the animal sounds, too.  What is baby's reaction?  If your baby has a vocal response to your sounds, extend the game by copying his sounds, yourself! 
• As you listen to your home CD, begin adding animal sounds, when they make sense:  crow during I Am Rooster;  Add animal sounds to the Old MacDonald dance; meow for the cat, moo for the cow, bark for the dog during Hey Diddle Diddle, etc.

Want to Learn More?

On our blog:  Read how engaging in vocal play with baby can speed your child's language development!