Talking is Teaching

When you talk, read, sing, and play with your child - even before they can use words - you're building their brain and helping to prepare them for success in school and life.

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It may not always be easy to talk to babies, especially when they can't talk back. To help, we've pulled fun tips and resources grounded in the best science to help you talk, read, sing, and play with your child every day.

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About Talking is Teaching

"Talking is Teaching: Talk, Read, Sing" is a public awareness and action campaign that helps parents recognize their power to boost their children's early brain and vocabulary development through simple, everyday actions - like describing things while walking outside, or singing songs together during bath time. Using books, parent videos, text messaging, social media, and information from expert partners. Talking is Teaching empowers parents and caregivers with fun and easy ways to improve their babies' learning. 

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Talking is Teaching is a campaign of Too Small to Fail.