[Loughla]

We talked constantly to ours. Not about anything in particular. Just narrating everything we did. Constantly.

Our oldest was talking in full sentences at 1 year. It was astounding. Now, granted, it was stuff like, "I'm dunna det da fwad" but he was communicating in full thoughts at about the time he walked.

People always asked what system we used for teaching him. Our answer was always, "it's boring at our house so we talk a lot."

[gardenhedge]

Everyone talks to their babies a lot. What does "it's boring at our house" mean?

[jacobolus]

> Everyone talks to their babies a lot

Most people talk to their babies at least sometimes, but observing families there are huge differences between how much people talk to their babies, how they talk to them, what subjects they talk about, how many different languages they use, etc.

[gardenhedge]

Is this your observations or a study?

[jacobolus]

This is my observations, but there are also numerous studies demonstrating this if you go looking. For instance, a 2m search turns up https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3440540/

[EGreg]

If they have a lot of siblings there is even more speech

[2Gkashmiri]

I have a family with a lot of kids. Their neighbour was living with his small family somewhere else for a year where their kids had the sibling and grandparents to talk to.

The younger of two had speech problems.

Then they returned home and the neighbour kids made both of them to talk in a matter of weeks and months.

[EGreg]

So is this confirming my point? Sorry, I am a bit confused who made who talk etc.

[2Gkashmiri]

My relatives who had the bunch of kids and their neighbour who had two kids who wouldnt talk.

[Loughla]

It's a joke. We live in a very rural area. So there's not much going on. We also don't do personal consumption devices (tablet/phone) in the home.