Originally Posted by Dottie
A pet peeve of mine was baby talk. I very rarely used that on my kids, and it bothered me when other people would use it on 2/3 year olds. I couldn't comprehend that even the smallest tot couldn't follow regular old language, crazy .


So a pet peeve of mine but some people just go to it. I wonder if it is more a personality thing. I could not in a million years baby talk and hearing it makes my blood boil but it comes natural to some. It is the 'cute' factor that I was just not born with and I for one am okay with that. When I pointed it out to a friend that she was doing it she was shocked. She didn't even realize she did it but again sends my blood boiling so I am super sensitive to it. We have always just talked to the babies. My DM is a master at it. She has complete conversations with the infants asking them questions such as what their mommy did to them. She did this with my DD since birth and is probably why she was so verbal since birth. constantly gooing and cooing and quickly talking. My DM visited a friend of mine and her 4 mth old and did the same thing and my friend who never did this noticed her DD cooing more and trying to put sounds together. Right before 6 mths she put mama together but is this due to my DM talking to her and then my friend following the example or was she headed that direction anyway? Who knows but my friend was amazed at how much her DD took to the conversations.