Communication, learned or taught?

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Have you ever wondered how amazing your baby is? Just stare at them and see all the incredible things they can do. Babies amaze me everyday. From birth they are able to breath, drink, sleep and make sounds. No one taught them these things- it’s just in their dna to come out the womb and do these things. It still makes me smile watching a baby learn how to crawl, like how do they figure that out? It’s not like we’re there on the floor crawling around and they are copying us. They do it instinctively and so perfectly.

I say all that to say we as their first teachers also have these instincts, and we do things automatically that we don’t even realize! When a baby cries you instinctively hold them, when they take their first step you cheer them on, etc. No one ‘teaches’ you to do that, it just happens. Communication can be just the same way, organic and instinctive. It starts with your baby’s cry, coo and laugh- their first form of communication. Looking deeper, their facial expression and body languages are also ways of communicating with us. And we decipher what these movements mean in order to care for their needs.

I urge you to keep adding to this communication.

As they grow and develop stronger fine motor skills help them add on simple gestures. As they learn simple sounds encourage them to hone in on these fun mouth movements in order to find simple words and movements to solidify this communication. It can and will grow with them, with all of you. It is natural and it comes from a place of love and nurture.