08/09/2026
Your toddler narrating their own actions out loud isn't random. It's how they organise their thinking.
"I'm putting the block here. Now the red one." That running commentary might sound like background noise, but it's actually private speech, toddlers thinking out loud as a way to plan, problem-solve and make sense of what they're doing.
It's not a phase to shush. It's their mind working things out, one sentence at a time.
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