“It is my firm belief that giving the parent the idea of “the book as a tool” will do more for the dual purpose of establishing the parent-child relationship and ensuring the child’s adequate language development, than any amount of advice on talking to babies.”
“None of us can endlessly initiate speech; we run out of ideas, or just plain get sick of it. The lives of babies and toddlers, even favoured ones, are limited. The experience just isn’t there to provide the raw material for constant verbal interaction, without inevitable boredom on the child’s part, and desperation on the adult’s. But if books are added….”
Dorothy Butler. Babies need Books, Chapter 1, Why Books? Page 6.
