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Baby Beaver is starting to repeat word sounds back to us. It's incredible how she can hear us say something, and translate that into the mouth and throat movements required to sound it out. Not such a baby anymore
Now that she's understanding us more, we're practicing speaking directly to her and telling her what to do, and what's going on. We were doing that already, but now it's with intentionality. One thing that we talked about long before conceiving is that we both maintain a united front when it comes to tone of voice, and disciplinary approach - in particular, Mom should not be the bad guy, and there should be a consistent tone of voice and instructions from both parents. It's all practice at this point - Little Beaver still doesn't understand too much, and is getting things figured out. I've gotten some good recommendations from people here about books to read as she enters toddlerhood.
I really commend you all for having that conversation about tone of voice and discipline. And keep having that convo too as little beaver grows. My partner and I realize we have diverging opinions a lot more as our kids are becoming little people. So we have those types of conversations even more now.