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Should we speak to children like we speak to adults?

EPISODE · Nov 5, 2025 · 5 MIN

Should we speak to children like we speak to adults?

from Newstalk Breakfast

‘We too often tend to talk down to children. The inclination to continue parentese well past babyhood is patronising to kids.’   So wrote Simon Tierney, Newstalk’s Own in The Irish Times.

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