Teaching a child to talk can be fun. Here are some great suggestions on how to begin teaching your baby how to turn sound into words.

1.) Visual Identification: Show your child an object. Slowly make the sounds putting emphasis on the yowl sounds and in a pleasing voice say what the object is. You may have to do this several times before your baby even tries to repeat after you. But this is an awesome way to teach word association with objects.

Your local book store should have "1001 baby's first words" or different books to help you do visual identification with your child.

2.) Always repeat the word you are trying to teach your child in a firm but pleasing voice. Again it make take you repeating words several times before they catch on or in some cases they just mimic your voice and their dictionary of words grows quickly.

3.) Use the life items around you to teach your child about the world they live in. Point out the bird and the dog. Show him the toy. Show pictures of Grandma and Grandpa and other family members.

4.) Play the age old game about body parts. Where is your eyes? Where is my knee? Is this a Nose? The child will love the attention and have lots of fun with you while learning his or her own body.

5.) Talk to your baby. The best source for learning is in what mom and dad say every day.

6.) Buy or tune into educational programing for kids. Not every child can learn from just any program. Yes Sponge Bob may be cute. But Big Bird, Dora, Blues Clues as well as many others actually teach your child while they entertain them.

7.) Children will learn the words you would rather not allow them to learn easily too. So separating your child from the words and even acknowledging out loud that someone said a "Bad Word" or "No No Word," reinforces how you feel about the word spoken.

With a little time and training your child will be communicating with you very well.

Do not fall for the point and noise idea... If your child wants something, have them show you and repeat the word to them several times so they do not think they can just point and grunt and you will know they want milk.

Use caution around your children. Do not have open arguments with your child in the same room. This can often delay a child from his or her own desire to speak.

It is all in the common since of good parenting.