5-8 Months Old: My tips to help encourage your baby to start talking
Around age 5-8 months, your baby may start to imitate the sounds you make. We want to encourage as much imitation as possible because this will lea...
3 Strategies For Longer Sentences
Children typically start to combine words at around age 2, then add more words as they become more competent. YOU CAN HELP your little one to speak...
Worried your child's talking isn't on track?
Worried your child’s talking isn’t on track? Download this free, research-based guide to speech and language milestones from Zazi and learn how to support communication at home.
The Million Word Gap
READ ⬇️Research has shown that kids who are read to daily hear around 1.4 million more words by age 5 than those who aren’t. That’s a HUGE differen...
Worth the wait
WORTH THE WAIT ⬇️Parents, ever feel like you need to fill every silence with words? 🤔 Here’s a game-changer: WAIT! ⏳Imagine you’re in a meeting, an...
Singing to your baby
Why Singing to Your Baby is a Game Changer!1. Enhances Their Sense of Security and Emotional Connection: Singing to your baby creates a comforting ...
Whats in your head?
What’s in your head?! Theory of mind is when kids realise that others have thoughts and feelings that differ from their own. It pays to remembe...
Language Tip: Road Safety
Steal this strategy ⬇️There's no more important time for a child to 'STOP' than in a road safety sitatuation.We all WANT to give them the freedom t...
Tell a story to get a story
TELL a story to GET a story.🙂Takes the pressure off🙂 Models excellent sentence structure🙂 Helps jog their memory🙂 Teaches story telling and sequenc...
Language Development Tip
Why it matters ⬇️ For some reason, adults have fallen into a pattern of speaking in the third person to our kids. For example, people often say "co...
Starting School Mistake
Do this ⬇️⬇️Did you know that teaching your child what SOUND each letter makes is way more important than them learning the name of the letter?E.g....
Reading time and Language Development
This is magic ⬇️YES it's lovely to have kids snuggled beside us or on our knee during reading time, but there's a BETTER WAY when it comes to suppo...