Watch where they look.
During breakfast, or the car seat buckle, or the bath — any moment your hands are busy anyway. Kids point with their eyes long before they point with words. What did they look at twice? That's a sentence. They just said it without sound.
Count to five before you fill the quiet.
When you ask them something, or hand them something — wait. Slowly, in your head, five. It will feel long. Most of us answer for our kids without noticing we do it. What shows up in second four — a sound, a reach, a look back at you — is what was always going to come. It just needed the room.
Notice what they bring you.
A rock. The same crumpled sticker. A shoe that isn't yours. A kid who brings you something is starting a conversation — that object is the topic. You don't have to do anything special with it. Just take it like it matters, because it does.
Listen for the songs that aren't words.
The hum while they play. The made-up tune in the stroller. The same three sounds over and over. Before words come out right, kids talk in rhythm and melody — it carries feeling the words can't hold yet. You don't need to translate it. Just notice when it shows up, and what was happening when it did.
Watch them watching you.
This one is mine. My daughter studied my hands, how I move, where I look — for a long time before I caught her doing it. Somewhere today, your kid is studying you. Catch them once. You don't have to say anything. They already know you saw.
That's it. No streak to keep, no next module.
If one of these showed you something today — that's the whole method working.
What did you notice?
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