What I've noticed with my daughter recently is, as difficult as she is, I know they're supposed to be, she's three…
She's becoming less difficult the more language she has, purely because a screaming two year old cannot explain to you properly what's frustrating them as well as a screaming four year old can.
Therefore the more language, in theory, someone has, the more able they are to communicate what's upsetting them and the more easily you'll be able to remedy what's upsetting them.
I mean, just to give you an adult example, it's no coincidence that, across the board, men statistically seem to be less happy than women.
Well what do we know about men, dads and uncles and granddads? They speak less. So men don't speak as much as women speak in our society.
I do strongly suspect that if we could all open up more and communicate more and share more and use more language we would be happier.
So think how important it is when you're raising a child to start as you mean to go on, lots of language, lots of expressiveness, lots of encouragement to share any disquiet.
Russell has noticed something when it comes to raising his daughter - the more she's talking, the easier it makes his life as a parent.
