Alan Mendelsohn of New York's Bellevue Hospital Creates Program On How To Talk To Babies: When it comes to building your child's vocabulary, the answer may be in quantity, not quality.
NPR reports that University of Kansas graduate student Betty Hart and her professor, Todd Risley, wanted to figure out the cause of the education gap between the rich and poor. So, they targeted early education and headed a study that recorded the first three years of 40 infants' lives.
The conclusion? Rich families talk to their kids more than poor families.