Love: Talk About It, Sing About It, Learn About It

Respond to what your child says.

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If your toddler says "truck," you can say, "We saw a truck yesterday too. If he or she says "banana," you can say, "Do you want a banana? That's a very healthy food. Babies' growing brains can easily learn more than one language. Sing Singing helps children hear the sounds that make up words. Sing the A-B-C- song, nursery rhymes, funny songs, or any songs you like. Clap to the rhythm.

Sing songs in any language.

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They have hard pages your baby can throw, bite, and hit. Your toddler can flip the pages and play with the book. Talk about the story as you read. You don't even have to read. You can just talk about the pictures. Show these words to your child too.

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Write Children learn early writing skills by drawing and scribbling. Put flour or rice in a pan and then put your baby's hand in it. This is fun and starts developing the muscles needed to write. Give your toddler crayons and paper to use. View image of "What do you mean, you prefer John Cage? Even if there is no benefit to the plant, there could be benefit to yourself by producing more [oxygen] inside.

Come on, says Marshal Huang.

There has got to be more to it than carbon dioxide levels. Perhaps there could be good vibrations, suggests Christie Ley. The hard rock ones died Caroline Wall has a neat hypothesis. It need not be anything to do with sound at all. Instead, maybe people who sing to their plants are just better at looking after them. View image of Yuccas dig "Rolling in the Deep" Credit: Charles Darwin was similarly open-minded.

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He once noted that seedlings appeared to be sensitive to the vibrations of the table on which their pots were standing. Intrigued, he devised what he called "a fool's experiment" to see if the seedlings responded to sound. But when Darwin's son Francis played his bassoon to the plants, the results were inconclusive. More recently, evidence has emerged that some sounds may cause subtle changes in some plants at some stages of their life cycles. View image of The tree is not getting anything out of this Credit: Ultrasound, with frequencies higher than those in the audible spectrum, may enhance seed germination.

Experiments on chrysanthemums suggest that audible sound can alter levels of growth hormones in cells.