Talk to me! Is an expectant mother aware that her child is tuning into her voice? In the early months of life it is the sound of her voice that will stimulate the learning centres of her baby’s brain, and it is especially high-pitched ‘baby talk’, sometimes called ‘Motherese’, that will have the greatest impact….
A few years ago, I was introduced to the Research Summaries on the website of What About the Children? As a Science graduate and mother of two children, I was interested in the brain development of the under-threes and how my hours of work might have affected the children. My conclusion was that being made…
Do you sometimes read a sentence in a newspaper article that hits you between the eyes at the casual lack of understanding it shows of the need of a young baby for its mother? I was particularly struck by an observation from one celebrity who made the following comment in a newspaper interview recently, “I’ve…