Babies Speak Spanish

     I am a second wife; my husband is older and has a grown daughter. She has a child which makes my young sons uncles. Taryn is her daughter and we love her. The boys are so fond of her and think she is so cute, which she is. At one point in her life, as with all children, we couldn’t understand a single word she would say. She’d chatter up a storm and laugh a lot but we had to kind of figure out what it was that she was after. One morning, after she stayed the night with us, Adam, quite matter-of-factly, was telling me that all babies speak Spanish and that is why many people can’t understand them. I was enthralled; I asked how he knew this. He explained to me that he remembers back to when he was a baby and that he spoke Spanish and when he got bigger it turned to English as is the case with all babies. I did try to explain that babies are trying to learn to form words with their little mouths and that it isn’t really a question of English or Spanish but rather what language they are exposed to. Nope, he wasn’t buying that. We left it at “babies speak Spanish”…for now.