Clyde Childcare Center opening day event on September 21, 2018.
Mother photographs her twin daughters at Clyde Childcare Center's opening celebration. Talking to babies increases their vocabulary.
Clyde Childcare Center opening day event on September 21, 2018.
Octopus, dolphin, shark...Babies learn the names of different kinds of fish from a Clyde Childcare Center mom. Moms know it doesn't take more time, it takes more words to teach a child to talk.
The Women's Treatment Center
After dinner, twenty moms gathered with their babies to practice their most important role as first teacher of language. Knowing that a child's brain is 80% developed by age three, they prepared to add literally millions of words to their children daily routines. Adding words to a child's day doesn't take more time; it takes more words. What does mom say to a toddler who cannot talk yet? It is simple as "Say what you see." Talk about what you are doing, what your child is d
Clyde Childcare Center opening day on September 21, 2018
Home visitors at Clyde Childcare Center in Cicero, IL hold copies of The Gift of Words: How Do Children Learn to Talk? a book they tested before its publication.
Clyde Childcare Center opening day on September 21, 2018
Tammy Steele, Ana Perez and Bina Habbi on September 14, 2018, first gathering of home visitors, moms, and babies at Clyde Childcare Center in Cicero IL.
Clyde Childcare Center opening day on September 21,2018
Tammy Steele, author of The Gift of Words: How Do Children Learn to Talk? mom and her child at opening event at Clyde Childcare Center in Cicero IL.
Clyde Childcare Center opening day on September 21,2018
Mom and her two children color the paper school bus yellow.
Clyde Childcare Center opening day event on September 21, 2018
Clyde Childcare Center moms teach vocabulary to their toddlers using stickers and conversation starter from The Gift of Words: How Do Children Learn to Talk?
The Hyde Park Children's 57th Street Book Fair
Our book, The Gift of Words: How Do Children Learn to Talk? went to the Hyde Park Children’s Book Fair on Sunday, September 16, 2018. Author and illustrator, Tammy Steele, tried to get Pete the Cat to say more words, but he wouldn’t say a thing. It takes more words to get a great vocabulary.
