😊 Face-to-Face Chat
The oldest conversation there is: you sound, they answer, you copy.
📚 Learn·10 min·Free·Ages 0–1·👶 Easy·🧑 Light
⚠️ Safety first
Stay within arm's reach. Support their head and stop when they look away.
You know your child best — supervise the whole time and skip anything that isn't right for them. See our Terms.
Why this is good for your child
- ✓Turn-taking
- ✓Early speech
🌱 Montessori-inspired · Language
What you need
Just the two of you
How to do it
- 1.Hold your baby about 30 cm from your face.
- 2.Make a sound, then wait — really wait — for their answer.
- 3.Copy whatever they give you back.
How it actually goes
- ⏱ 30-second set-up —
- Thirty seconds: put just the two of you on a tray or a clear bit of floor, and sit down next to it before you call them over.
- 🧑 What you do —
- Show it once, slowly, without talking over yourself. Then hand it over and stop helping unless they ask.
- 👶 What they do —
- Look, listen, point, and eventually put their own words on it.
- ✅ What success looks like —
- Under 1, watching, mouthing and batting at it is the whole activity. Two minutes of real attention is a good session.
- 🧺 How to put it away —
- Everything back into one basket or tray, carried back to its spot by them. Naming the spot out loud is what makes it stick.
- 📈 When they outgrow it —
- Older? Ask them to tell it back to you, or to a younger sibling.