"It also seems to help parents capture babies' attention and engage them emotionally," she said. "Adults are generally motivated to engage infants, and they intuitively know that babies respond well ...

Dear Miss Manners: I’m lucky enough to work at a place where everyone generally gets along very well. We have one newer person who is nice, but has one annoying quirk: She randomly inserts baby talk ...

We all use baby talk when we babble with bundles of joy, but does how we talk to infants vary across cultures? The answer seems to be yes and no. "Some cultures talk more or less to babies, some not ...