When your child is learning language, he/she needs to feel
positive support in conversations. The conversations they
have with you should feel good to you both. Both of you
need to feel that you are benefiting from the conversation.
You can assist this process by paying attention to how you
talk to your child, how you answer his/her questions, and
how encouraging you are even when he/she is not perfectly
clear.
There are several ways that you can respond to your child
in conversation to develop language, to support your child
in new knowledge, and to encourage more sharing.
