The sound of a mother’s voice is not just comforting it’s foundational. That’s a quote from a Beauchemin et al. study that ...

As a parent, creating a warm, educational environment filled with opportunities for interaction, through storytelling, ...

Choose easy words like Hello or Bye Bye or your bird ’s name. Speak clearly and enthusiastically to catch their attention.

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Puppy’s hands, foot, ear, and light-up heart respond to baby’s touch (5 activations in all!) Press and hold light-up heart to ...

The rose emoji is a classy option and is the textual version of giving them flowers or, even better, suggesting that they ...

This intelligence is coming out of an infant character — same robe, same outfit. The image speaks not as a child but with the ...

Most of us have no idea that our mother's influence on one of the most important things we’ll ever do—speaking—begins well ...

But that's rare. What's more common is when a baby fails to make the jump from early babbling to more advanced babbling.

If you've ever wondered why your Hinge or Tinder match suddenly stopped replying after what you thought was a 'great vibe', ...

Baby babble is a language spoken by children before they use real language. Hearing your child "read" to you in babble is too ...

Dear Bel, My boyfriend and I have good friends who have just had a baby. They are understandably thrilled. I'm happy for them ...