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I can still feel the excitement that bubbled up inside me as I took my assigned chair in the colorfully decorated classroom. I was seven years old and had recently entered the second-grade advanced readers class. As I sat down, I glanced around the room. Photographs of farm animals covered one wall, as we would be learning about the farms that produced the food we ate. Large formal letters covered another wall, an exciting new way of writing with lovely curls of cursive.
Why do we celebrate a child’s first word? Why play the name game, or continuously offer words to an infant or toddler that are met with a blank stare, bemused smile, or even total disregard? We quietly chuckle at our child in the developmental phase recognized onomatopoetically as babbling, knowing that it represents the first attempts of our little one to mimic the talking they have seen and heard in others, especially in us as parents.
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