When chatting with your child, it’s important that they see you having fun. This will encourage them to interact and communicate with you. The more you communicate together the more words and sentences they can learn.
Watch the video below to see how this mum shows her daughter she's enjoying a game by being expressive with her face and voice.
How using an interesting voice helps your child
It helps them to:
- Focus and listen to what you are saying
- Pick out important words that relate to what you're doing
- Have fun while they enjoy learning words and sentences
Using a fun and expressive tone in a game of copycat will make your child more likely to want to join in and copy you.
By copying them, you're showing them that their actions, words and sounds are important and that you're listening to them.
