• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    Speak to your kids like little adults and their speech and vocabulary explodes. They also sense the respect that many adults don’t give them. I loathe adults that talk down to children.

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      23 hours ago

      My friend has a toddler and I always spoke to her like a regular person who just happened to not know things. She seemed to respect it a lot.

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        21 hours ago

        Yes! Treat them as ignorant, not stupid. Asked my ex-wife why kids like me when I’m don’t like them so much. “You talk to them like real people. They get that.”