What to do if your child doesn't like to talk?

Nowadays, children are really a concern for adults. Parents will think that children who talk too much are not good. If children don’t like to talk, everyone will start to worry. Now some parents are worried about this and say, "Our children have always been silent. What should we do? Is there any problem?" In fact, many children’s silence does not mean that they have any problems. You can take a look at the following introduction which may be helpful to you.

① Stimulate your baby at any time. Some parents hesitate to speak to their babies because they themselves have an accent, which results in delayed speech ability in their babies. Little do people know that language stimulation is more important than correct pronunciation. Especially when taking your baby around to recognize objects, remember to express language appropriately through concrete actions. For example, tell your baby "This is a kitten. Call the cat!", "This is a red flower, this is green grass", or "Baby, are you hungry? Let's go home for dinner!" and so on.

② Respond to your baby’s words seriously. When babies are talking, adults should respond seriously. Babies don't know much language at this stage, so they are bound to make many mistakes when using it. Adults must remember to maintain a pleasant learning atmosphere and not correct them again and again in a nitpicking manner. When your baby speaks incompletely, pay attention to his attitude or expression and carefully interpret his intentions. Since babies' emotions are easily affected by adults' attitudes, please do not easily let your baby lose the desire to speak.

③Read aloud lots of books to your baby. A three-year-old child is in the mature stage of writing, which enables him to understand and accumulate a rich vocabulary. Improve your baby's language skills faster. Cultivating your baby's reading and writing skills early on will guide the child's thinking to a higher level, and his world will become broader. At the same time, an ability to understand things and situations that he cannot experience personally will be cultivated, so that he will have more confidence to demonstrate his verbal ability.

④Create an atmosphere for verbal communication for your baby. Let your baby have as much contact with the outside world as possible, make more friends, and try to create a lively and pleasant atmosphere for them to play games and talk. Through warm spiritual communication, we can help babies learn language.

⑤ Actively prevent and control the occurrence of stuttering. 2-5 years old is the best age to prevent and treat stuttering. The measures include: paying attention to the baby's language training and increasing interpersonal communication; encouraging the baby to master more vocabulary and enhance expressive ability; paying attention to using correct pronunciation and giving the child a correct learning example. People who already suffer from stuttering can adopt the singing therapy recommended by American speech pathologist Glasp. The method is: according to age characteristics, first choose simple, easy-to-sing, slow, catchy songs, and listen to more music to adapt to and accept the speed and rhythm of the music, speed up the transition from singing to speaking, gradually eliminate stuttering defects, and make language expression ability smoother and more natural.

Have some parents understood the methods introduced above? Some children have always been silent, maybe it’s just a matter of whether they start talking early or late. Don’t be too anxious. Also, parents should pay attention to their own behavior, be as gentle and patient as possible when talking to children, don’t blame them too much, and often read to them things that they are interested in to strengthen communication.