Mom Slammed After She Admits She Doesn't Talk to Her 11-Month-Old Baby, Says Dinner Is 'Just Quiet'

A caller mom took to TikTok to inquire whether it was normal not to talk to her baby, sparking a activity of criticism.

TikTok personification mak_and_momlife posted a now-deleted video looking for input from chap parents, and they did not awkward distant from sharing their honorable thoughts.

"Does anyone other for illustration not talk to their kid aliases their baby?" she began nan video.

“My girl is 11 months aged and maine and my woman walk astir days pinch her together," she explained successful nan video. "Today, it was conscionable maine and her each day, and I realized sitting astatine meal that it was conscionable quiet and we weren’t moreover talking, which she can’t talk about, but I don’t talk to her."

“Is that weird?" she asked. "Should I beryllium saying things truthful she tin study really to talk? I make noises, I do funny faces, I dance, but I don’t converse."

The video quickly went viral, pinch galore users moreover surface signaling and stitching nan original clip to stock their opinions. PresitgeTea reposted nan video successful its entirety, and galore of nan commenters were speedy to telephone retired nan TikTok personification for not talking to her small one.

“'She can’t talk’ really do you deliberation she’s going to learn?” 1 personification commented, quoting nan user.

“It takes a monolithic effort to not talk to your baby,” different personification added.

Other commenters were speedy to mention nan technological and developmental benefits of talking pinch your children, pinch 1 adding, “Your 11 period aged should already beryllium saying words. Not afloat sentences but immoderate words. Kids study by you speaking to them.”

Diane W Bales — Child Life Program Director astatine the University of Georgia, professor, and hold quality improvement master — strongly recommends talking to your baby, calling it “the astir important measurement you tin take.” 

“Some parents consciousness silly talking to a babe who can't reply them,” Bales writes. “But your babe is listening to your reside and learning from it moreover earlier he tin respond pinch words of his own.”

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Other baffled users joked that they moreover talk to their pets.

“Girl I talk to my cat," 1 personification wrote. "I person ever talked to my kids moreover erstwhile they were still successful utero. How tin you not talk to your baby? Poor kid. It’s 1 measurement you shape a enslaved pinch your child.”

Since then, nan personification has posted respective videos talking to her baby, adding much discourse to her original clip.

In one of nan videos, she tells nan babe that they "have to springiness nan group what they want."

"They support saying, ‘Have you talked to your girl yet?’ I ne'er said I ne'er talk to you, I conscionable said sometimes it's awkward," nan mom explains.