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'Nothing short of remarkable': Study finds parents' chats with their toddlers pay off 10 years later
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 422" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/literacy-preschool-parents-pediatric-1.4817374" target="_blank"><strong>'Nothing short of remarkable': Study finds parents' chats with their toddlers pay off 10 years later - CBC</strong></a></p><p></p><p><em>Doctors in the U.S. and Canada encouraged to promote early literacy to families </em></p><p></p><p>Attention exhausted parents: The next time your toddler starts making strange noises or babbling about <em>Paw Patrol</em>, try to strike up a conversation — it could make a big difference later, researchers say. </p><p>A study published this week in <a href="http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2018/09/06/peds.2017-4276" target="_blank">Pediatrics</a> found that toddlers with parents who spend lots of time listening and chatting with them are more likely to have better language skills and higher IQs a decade later than youngsters left hanging in silence.</p><p></p><p>"If you knew that children who were fed a certain nutritional diet at age two were not only far healthier as toddlers, but much more likely to be in a healthy weight range at age 12, you'd want to pursue those findings, wouldn't you?" said study author Jill Gilkerson, senior director of research and evaluation at the <a href="https://www.lena.org/about/" target="_blank">LENA Foundation</a>, a non-profit charity in Boulder, Col.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 422, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/literacy-preschool-parents-pediatric-1.4817374'][B]'Nothing short of remarkable': Study finds parents' chats with their toddlers pay off 10 years later - CBC[/B][/URL] [I]Doctors in the U.S. and Canada encouraged to promote early literacy to families [/I] Attention exhausted parents: The next time your toddler starts making strange noises or babbling about [I]Paw Patrol[/I], try to strike up a conversation — it could make a big difference later, researchers say. A study published this week in [URL='http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2018/09/06/peds.2017-4276']Pediatrics[/URL] found that toddlers with parents who spend lots of time listening and chatting with them are more likely to have better language skills and higher IQs a decade later than youngsters left hanging in silence. "If you knew that children who were fed a certain nutritional diet at age two were not only far healthier as toddlers, but much more likely to be in a healthy weight range at age 12, you'd want to pursue those findings, wouldn't you?" said study author Jill Gilkerson, senior director of research and evaluation at the [URL='https://www.lena.org/about/']LENA Foundation[/URL], a non-profit charity in Boulder, Col. [/QUOTE]
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