Will reduplication with your baby lead to a lag in language development?

In the first year of raising children, Almost every parent is looking forward to a commemorative moment: The child speaks the first word clearly. Just as learning to walk independently is to physical growth, Language learning is a milestone in psychological development. When many parents communicate with their babies, Will consciously or unconsciously use a large number of reduplicated words-[car] into [car], [rice] into [rice], [dog] into [dog]. There are some parenting views, which are opposed to this kind of baby tone words typically represented by reduplicated words, and even say [this will lead to the lag of children’s language development]. Is this really the case? What what should parents pay attention to when communicating with their babies? Speaking reduplicated Read More …

Is it a language barrier for children to write typos?

A mother contacted me and said she suspected her son had language barriers. The child is seven years old, Recently, I have always written wrong words. The types of mistakes are surprisingly consistent. Many words with left and right structures like [yang], Now he often writes the “day” on the left, which was originally on the right, but sometimes he can write it correctly. I realized that this situation had only started for two months, so I advised the mother not to worry, to go back and observe, and told her that this little mistake was exactly the right psychological development in my opinion. This is not a psychological development problem at all. Children’s memorization of Chinese characters, Especially in Read More …