Montessori Infant-Toddler video: modeling speech for the infant

See for more information on Montessori from birth on. When a mother or father speaks to a child kindly, with correct language and in a normal tone of voice (not using baby talk), and explains what she/he is doing (in this case buttoning a sweater) the child intuitively knows he is being respected a a fully conscious human being. At the same time he is absorbing a wealth of language—during the time when he is focused intently on language in preparing for later speech and writing. “I am