Why your baby masters some words faster than others

We as moms and dads want our babies to learn a develop. We try to get them to say "MOM" and "DAD" or "blanket" or whatever we think is important. No matter how hard you try to teach your baby the names for things you think he should learn ,she's far likelier to attach words to objects that excite her, like blue ball..

"Your baby learns the most from things that fascinate him," says Roberta 

Michnick Golinkoff, Ph.D., the H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Education at the University of Delaware, in Newark.

If your baby gets excited or giggles whenever she sees a favorite toy, tell her, "Ball.That is a Ball." In a study Golinkoff conducted along with researchers from Temple University, babies learned new words after hearing them just five times. As your baby gets older, she'll learn language differently. After 12 months kids master words more quickly when grown-ups are excited about them, too. By age 2 most toddlers easily learn words for all objects, regardless of their interest in them.