From the author: Regular contributor to Happy Parents and Psychology magazines Since your daughter started talking, she has been commenting on everything she does. He talks incessantly! Of course, you are happy about such speech activity, but pauses are also necessary? “Sleep, doll, sleep! Wait, now Marusya will go pee and come back.” And the baby rushes to the potty, and then returns to the stroller with the doll, without interrupting her monologue. “She talks non-stop all day,” says the mother of a two-and-a-half-year-old girl. “The most surprising thing to me is that until that time she hardly spoke.” Indeed, children often go through a long "incubation" period before they begin to speak. This is a typical developmental progression for most young children. First, the child does a lot of internal work, and then suddenly, at one moment, begins to speak or amazes you with some other skill. Therefore, your silent person can turn into a desperate talker overnight. And your anxiety over the protracted period when you explained yourself using sounds, syllables and expressive gestures can transform into fatigue from the endless stream of speech. At this stage, the child does not always need an interlocutor; language serves him mainly as a means of understanding the world. He names objects, comments on his actions, and repeats snippets of phrases heard from adults. Gaining speech for a baby is also associated with achieving greater independence, because now he can explain to adults what he wants, instead of crying or gesticulating vigorously. And parents no longer need to painfully guess the meaning of a few syllables and can finally plunge into the joy of communication. Be patient, the baby’s endless chatter can be a little tiring, but this is an important phase of development, when speech for a child is thinking out loud, thinking outside the out. The child needs to name everything that surrounds him: objects, phenomena, people, discover their properties, find connections between them. When he sees the glasses on the shelf, he will say “grandmother”... and he will be right! He is ready to endlessly repeat the names of his friends, cousins, grandparents, sitting at the table, looking for them in family photos, going to visit them. Also, the baby loves to play with words, showing remarkable ingenuity and the beginnings of a sense of humor. This is the period of “word creation” - words built from parts that are surprisingly and originally mixed in the child’s imagination. He connects parts of different words, inventing new ones. One little girl, talking about some strong impression, exclaimed: “It was huge!” When faced with such a poetic find, you need to not only express admiration for the creative find, but also clarify: “This is very interesting! You wanted to say “huge” and “terrible” - but it turned out to be a mixture of two words.” During this period, it is important to learn how to correct children, but not to extinguish their creative fervor. Use this favorable time to enrich your child’s vocabulary; now he is absorbing new words and phrases like a sponge. The development of speech will also enrich his emotional sphere, helping to differentiate more subtle shades of feelings and sensations. Before entering kindergarten, it is important for a child to gain an extensive vocabulary. The more words he knows, the easier it will be for him to establish contact with children and teachers. And when learning begins, it will be easier for a child with well-developed speech to perceive and process information. Often, children do not know many, sometimes very simple, words because it does not occur to adults to name some objects and phenomena specifically for the child, or to explain their properties. It is the parents who must fill these gaps. And don't forget about syntax. We know how harmful it is to speak to a child in a broken, simplified language: at 2 years old it is time to move from individual words to phrases, correctly constructing sentences. A child who does not hear correct speech will lag behind his peers in kindergarten. They say that today from 15 to 20 percent of first-graders.