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I couldn't help myself. I had to use one of my deceptive headlines. Admit it: had I titled this post "The relationship between attachment and language development," you wouldn't have read it I have written about my new friend, a 6-year-old girl whom I encouraged to pick up leaves and pine sprigs, so we could do "nature art" together. She is the girl who said to me, "I don't have a daddy. He took bad medicine and is gone," or something like that. But I haven't spoken much about her little brother, who turned three last weekend. He and I also play, and I have taken to repeating everything he says, whether I understand it or not. I have also encouraged him to test his limits on the play structures at the park. In only a month, his language has blossomed. When I met him, he spoke mostly in one-word utterances. Now that he feels comfortable around me, and attached to me, he is speaking in three word sentences. It is well-documented in the ECE (Early Childhood Education) and developmental psychology literature that language development is a proxy for good attachment between a young child and a parent or other adult. I am honored to be a part of the development of both of these kids. And yeah, I get paid for playing with them.