Voice Lessons for Parents Quotes

“One final suggestion before we start our study of conversation. When talking with children, pretend you’re an armchair traveler or cultural anthropologist. What are the ways of these people? What are their traditions, their beliefs? Whom do they admire, and why? What are they striving for? As you enter their land, let an open mind, curiosity, and courage be your guide.”
― Wendy Mogel, Voice Lessons for Parents: What to Say, How to Say it, and When to Listen

“Daughters don’t need to respect their mothers, she says, and mothers don’t need to demand that feeling from their daughters. The daughter can feel any way she likes. But in order to have the privilege of your attention she is required to speak politely.”
― Wendy Mogel, Voice Lessons for Parents: What to Say, How to Say it, and When to Listen

“A large, nationally representative study published in the journal Pediatrics showed that children aged ten to fifteen who play video games on any platform for an hour or less a day demonstrate better psychosocial adjustment compared with no play, whereas the opposite was true for those engaging in more than three hours of daily play.”
― Wendy Mogel, Voice Lessons for Parents: What to Say, How to Say it, and When to Listen

“The muscles that allow us to talk are strengthened when we chew and swallow. As baby progresses from rooting for a nipple at birth, to more robust sucking, to eating her first mushy solids at age four to six months, she is preparing to utter her first words. Certain speech milestones correlate directly to baby’s eating milestones, for example, taking single sips from an open cup (not a sippy cup or bottle) correlates with advanced lip-movement sounds such as “w,” and being able to move food around inside the mouth enables baby to properly enunciate her words.”
― Wendy Mogel, Voice Lessons for Parents: What to Say, How to Say it, and When to Listen