A parent or caregiver can invite children to talk by babbling continuously in a relaxed, low-pressure way instead of asking direct questions or following scripts. Pressure and rigid approaches shut kids down. This gentle presence eventually draws them out naturally.
And that's what I do. I am always babbling. Yeah, it's always, I'm always babbling. And if a child doesn't respond, I babble, I babble, I babble. And there comes a point that the child answers because I keep babbling and I don't give the other the feeling that they have to respond. And because I don't, give them the feeling, they respond. That's how it works, and that is something that I had to discover. If I try to script things and if I try to put too many pressure on what is happening, then it doesn't work.
