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Understanding words, behavior, and concepts
Your newborn can't yet speak your language or fully understand what you're saying to him, but he's a fast learner. Research shows that babies start listening to their parents' voices while still in the womb. Once born, your baby begins tuning in to your words and sentence patterns to figure out what you're saying. He also uses his powers of observation to learn about some of the more complicated things – like love, trust, time, and cause and effect – that exist in his physical and emotional world. When it develops Your baby starts to learn what others are saying and doing even before she's born. As a newborn, she doesn't know the precise meaning of the words you use, but she picks up on your emotions – such as happiness, sadness, love, concern, anxiety, and anger. By the time she's 7 months old, she'll respond to her own name, and by 8 to 12 months she'll understand simple directives such as "No" or "Don't touch." Around 24 months, she'll be able to talk to you in two- or three-word phrases. About the age of 3, she'll have a vocabulary of a couple hundred words and a pretty good sense of some of the rituals and activities of everyday life, such as food shopping, housecleaning, and knowing night means bedtime. Not many people are interested to have proper word command over the argument, are you one of them.