Answer the quiet moment
Naming what a young child is seeing, doing or feeling helps make language connections long before they can talk or understand the words, and a caregiver who is attentive and responsive to a baby's signals is what makes a day rich in back-and-forth. The nappy change you are doing anyway is the easiest place in the day to put one.
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🛡️ One hand stays on your baby for every second they are on a changing surface, and you never step away for anything — not the phone, not the door. If you have to leave, they come with you or they go on the floor first.
Sources: Harvard — Serve and Return: Back-and-forth exchanges · Harvard — Serve and Return: Back-and-forth exchanges
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