当世界各国的母亲们凭着母爱的天性把还不会说话的宝宝搂在怀中对着他们呢喃细语时，她们给予孩子的决不仅仅是温柔的抚爱。美国西雅图华盛顿大学生理和听觉科学系主任库尔博士指出，与婴儿谈话聊天的重要性远胜于人们已经认识到的。
别看婴儿们尚不会说话，当他们听到父母在对他们说话时，婴儿大脑的思维正在不断变幻，他们所听到的任何一种语言都对他们的大脑皮层产生有效的刺激，促使他们的思维变得更加活跃，更加新鲜。研究人员在经过反复实验之后发现，在各种声响中。宝宝们对父母亲的语言刺激最敏感、最愿意接受。
库尔博士曾对100户来自不同阶层的家庭进行多年的跟踪调查。结果显示，知识分子阶层的父母无形之中对宝宝说话的时间最长，每天达2600个词语；普通技工阶层居次，每天1600个词语，离异或居住在大杂院里的父母对宝宝说话最少，每天仅600个词语。随后，库尔博士对100户人家的孩子每隔两年进行一次测试，一直跟踪到孩子进入高中一年级。库尔博士发现，父母在婴儿期间与之谈话最多的孩子每次测试分数较高，反应也较快；反之，测试分数明显偏低，反应也较慢。
库尔博士说：“从宝宝吃奶开始，做父母的不要忘记经常和宝宝谈话聊天，这样也是一种沟通，对孩子在婴幼阶段的智力发展大有好处。”那么，该对孩子说些什么呢？什么都可以说，你自己一天的活动、户外的环境、小故事、儿歌都可轻轻地对着宝宝诉说一番，宝宝是十分乐意接受的，说到开心的地方，他会露出会心的微笑，好象能听懂似的。
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Have You Talked With Your Baby Today?
When the mothers all around the world whisper softly to their babies just rely on their motherhood nature, what they could give babies just not only mild caress. Dr.Coull, who is a director of physiology and hearing science department, from Washington University of Seattle, U.S.A , said that the importance of chatting with babies outclassed what people had understood.
Though the babies can not speak, when they hear their parents talking with them, their cerebral thinking is changing all the time. All kinds of languages they heart will activate their pallium effectively, urging their thinking to become fresher and more active. After trial and error, the researchers discovered that among many different kinds of sounds, the babies are more sensitive and prefertable to their parents` voice.
Dr.Coull had made a trackfinding for many years of 100 families from different classes. It showed that the parents of clerisy class talked to their babies for the longest time, about 2600 words per day; the second longest is common artificer class, about 1600 words per day; the least is the parents who divorced or lived in the megafamily, only 600 words per day. Then Dr.Coull tested these children from those 100 families every two years, until they are at grade one of wenior high school. Dr. Coull found that the children were the most talked with their parents when on babyhood got high score and acted faster; on the contrary, the lower score and action.
Dr.Coull said ,"the parents shouldn`t forget to talk to babies as often as possible when the babies begin to drink milk. This is also a communication and good for brains development when babies at babyhood. And then what should be talked with the babies? Everything will be OK, like your activities, the outside environment, stories, children`s songs and so on. Your can tell them gently and they will be very happy to listen to you. When come to the interesting things, the baby would smile as if he could understand you.