The best way to teach your baby how to talk may not be talking to her, but by talking with her.
A study of 275 families with kids under age four finds two-sided conversations with young children are the key to building language skills.
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles and Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle, WA say this leads to more opportunities for correcting mistakes while children practice speaking.
By the way, each hour of television watched, led to decreases in language, because people, generally, do not talk while the television is on.
The study is published in Pediatrics, July 2009.
