Nepal, March 16 -- Remember the time you uttered nonsensical "goo-goo-gaa- gaa" to your newborn baby while tickling their hands or feet, and your happiness, when your baby giggled back almost like responding to you? That's your baby talking back to you. As they became bigger, you mimicked, made faces just to see them laugh and jump around and imitate you.

You put in an effort to make them happily respond to you. Most parents know that talking to their children helps their development. Helps them to shape up as an adult, so far as their dealings with others are concerned. What was not clear was that it took more than talking to them to make an impact on a different level altogether. A recent study conducted at Massachusetts Institute of T...