Exercise your brain by talking to your child.

My son is almost two and I have already noticed that I am pronouncing my words better so that i can teach him how to speak properly. I did not realize how similar some words sound like ball and bowl as I would not usually use these words together but I have asked him to get me his bowl and he brings his ball!

My son is only 14 months old. He's not really talking in words yet. I talk to him alot, but the conversations are pretty one sided at this point.

Not only does it benefit you to talk to your child but it also benefits the child. As soon as my son was born I began talking to him, I was a stay at home mom for the first year of his life and all throughout the day I'd talk to him, I'd tell him what I was doing as I did it, talked to him about dinner, basically having a conversation with him just as I would have if he was another adult. I never used "baby talk" with him and now, at 5 years old, he has a vocabulary well beyond his years and pronounces words far more clearly than some other children his age.

I think that everything we do each day can give stimulation to our brains. Children can be quite curious and inquisitve. Just keeping up with their minds can be more than enough to exercise your brain.

Yes, because talking to a child makes you think brilliantly to answer his/her question carefully, and it is fun having them around.

Good point. I don't have a lot of recent experience dealing with a seven year old but I have a two year old and although it might not be the same, I still have to think hard about how to explain things to him and how to convince him.

it brought me to the time my children were in that age. and i have to agree. it exercises the brain talking to a child. we also discover that by talking to them and listening to their ideas it refreshes our minds of the things we have long forgotten. very, very nice experience. cherish it.

I have a 4 month old baby, I enjoying talking to him although he is just biblling these days, I think when I talk to him encourages him to respond back; while he is talking back, he is learning too.

I agree with you. Sometimes kids ask you questions that you haven't even thought about before and this really stimulates your brain. I really appreciate parents who are very patient in answering their kids' questions. This is also a very good bonding moment with your kids.

What a joy to have a conversation with a child. You get to see the world through their eyes as they try to make sense of everything. It is a joy and exhausting. The hardest part is understanding just what they are really asking. My grandson ask why the cat didn't bark. Was he asking why the cat didn't speak a foreign language, why the cat makes different sounds than the dog or why the dog barks when someone knocks at the door but the cat doesn't . . .etc. Getting the question in a context of the world he sees is the hardest and most fun a person can have.