Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 4,27 Jan 2015,28 mins

Prof Tanya Byron on the language parents use to talk to their children

Word of Mouth

Available for over a year

Psychologist Professor Tanya Byron and Michael Rosen discuss the language parents use to talk to their children. Do parents over-praise, and is it ok to say no? How is the way that parents talk to children changing and what effect might that have? With linguist Dr Laura Wright. Producer Beth O'Dea.

Programme Website
More episodes