Everything gets a running name

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New words arrive every day at this age, and almost all of them arrive from ordinary talk rather than from teaching. Naming what your hands are doing while you do it puts dozens of words in front of them a day, each one attached to a thing happening right there.

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Source: ZeroToThree โ€” From Baby to Big Kid: Month 18

๐Ÿฉบ Vuila shares play ideas, not medical advice โ€” for questions about your child's development, talk to your pediatrician.

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Everything gets a running name

Talk through whatever you are already doing

Unloading the dishwasher, buttoning a coat, cutting bread. No special activity โ€” the one you are doing anyway.