> We refer to all the objects in the room (or anywhere else) whether the baby understands them or not. And that helps the baby enormously; I remember reading t

> We refer to all the objects in the room (or anywhere else) whether the baby understands them or not. And that helps the baby enormously; I remember reading that the more words that infants hear, the more their brains develop. But we still point to objects — or to pictures in a children's book, as I did the other day helping my wife babysit a neighbor's grandbaby — and say the words.