[dgllghr]

I haven’t read Thirty Million Words but I second the idea of talking to your child. A lot. I try to tell mine what we are doing, what we are about to do, why we are doing things the way we are, etc. Also, because I don’t always succeed at explaining everything all the time, he asks a bunch of questions! So I try to answer each of his questions in a way he can comprehend as best I can. I’ve noticed that doing all of that, makes him happier, more confident, and less likely to have emotional outbursts.

[FactualActuals]

I do the same thing with my girlfriend's daughter. She's 2.5 and I try my hardest to talk with her, not to her. I want her to ask questions and try to think about why I am doing the things I am doing around my house. My girlfriend encourages it because that's how she's been raising her daughter. My only pitfall is using complex words and forgetting to go back and explain what the words mean.

[eimrine]

> I haven’t read Thirty Million Words but I second the idea of talking to your child.

If to be honest, this is the only book from my list which I haven't read also. But I have read very thoroughly the "Eye Brain Vision" by David Hubel. He did not set his experiments to human and nowadays that kind of experiments seems like not possible any more even to animals. He might consider a child who has not received his 30M words as a "deprivation" if he worked in a human field (he worked only with cats, I mean young kittens). And he demonstrated a lot of examples about what deprivation does to a cat brain. I believe anything which is in Thirty Million Words without reading a page from it because I used to watch a lot of deprivation examples from kind of more advanced source. But of course Hubel's book is not about parenting at all.