I don’t know if it has happened to them, that they see a family with a baby and they are talking to it; and they think, but if this baby doesn’t understand anything why do they talk to him so much. Well, after years of deliberation, I have realized how important it is to talk to children even when they are 1 day old, not only because that helps the parent-child relationship, but because that communication is in charge of helping the mental and cognitive development of our children. We don’t realize it because they can communicate little to us, but they are sponges that absorb everything they can from their surroundings.
Since pregnancy, it is very important to talk to our baby, explain our emotions, tell them things. They understand more than we usually think, and constantly communicating something to them helps them retain information, helps them establish communication patterns, and helps them recognize words for their future vocabulary. Another very important thing, which is essential for the child, is to put words to what he knows, what he intuits or feels. They are closer to emotions, to the sensory-sensory world, they rationalize and intellectualize less than adults, they are more perceptive, this makes them aware of various situations that adults are often unaware of. For this reason it is good every time he is drinking water to tell him that this is water he is drinking, or every time he points to something tell him that it is the object, give him the name and repeat it constantly so that it becomes a pattern that he can remember in the future.
It is very common to hear parents say: “no, we don’t tell him anything because he is little and he doesn’t understand anything”. There are parents who do not tell their children what they are going to do or where they are going to go during the day, mothers who do not tell their babies that they are going to start working and that they are going to leave them in the care of another person, who do not They talk to him when some sad event happens. Children, no matter how young, understand through gestures, emotions and sometimes non-verbal communications, but not for this reason should we stop using them. It is important to involve our children in the day to day, that they understand what is to come and then capture what it is that we are telling them.
A child who is told, explained, given the opportunity to express himself, not only makes him feel more secure but also improves his self-esteem. They need to be listened to and deserve to be made to participate many times in the problems in which they are involved, they deserve to be respected as people. They are just as people as adults and deserve the same considerations. In this way, they are also trained in the very important exercise of communication: to express what happens to them, and before this, to be able to look at themselves and become aware of what happens to them as an a priori thing.
This is why we invite you to start conversations with your children, no matter how young they are, tell them all the details of the day, the schedule and the programming of their day to day that they will appreciate in the future.
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