Serve-and-return coo chats

⏱️ 5 min📦 nothing needed🏠 in or out🤲 on their back🗣️ Language💛 Social-emotional

When baby babbles or gestures and you answer, that back-and-forth — "serve and return" — helps build and strengthen neural connections in their brain. Those connections are what communication and social skills are built from.

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Sources: HarvardServe and Return: Back-and-forth exchanges · HarvardServe and Return: Back-and-forth exchanges

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Serve-and-return coo chats

Answer the coo like a serve

When baby coos or gurgles, look at them and answer with a short, warm phrase.