The dos and don'ts of baby talk

May 19, 2026 · 20 min

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0:21Hey, Andy.
0:22Hey, Marielle.
0:24I was just talking to my nephew WeFaceTime a few times a week.
0:29He always grabs the phone and he does this thing where he communicates his glee by shaking his head like this.
0:35Like, I'm so happy to see you.
0:37Yeah.
0:38I think that's our signal to each other.
0:40Like, we're excited to see each other.
0:42Because it's hard to know how to talk to a baby really before they're talking.
0:49Right.
0:49It's like, how do you have conversations?
0:51How do you know if you're connecting in some way?
0:55What it sounds like is something called serve and return.
0:58And so it means when you're interacting with a baby, you're serving them some form of communication.
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