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Note
on Baby Talk
I
don’t know if you’ve ever had the radio on at your bedside and heard
broadcast conversations mingle with your dream.
Whilst still dreaming I try to join in these conversations.
Since the jabbering doesn’t pause, I can seldom intercept with
a sentence—and when I do no one listens.
With their earliest squawks, babies are trying to enter our
discussions.
Your conversation is like
the cut-loose-from-meaning words
I utter in dreams when I enter
a radio debate by my pillow.
Luckily
for them,
in the early stages, they can’t feel too excluded.
Can they? I hope
not, though the latest wisdom has it that every day we should devote an
hour of ‘prime time’ talking to babies in their own language.
Squawk back!
Alan
Marshfield
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