Why do school teachers talk to the youngest school kids with such high voices?

Question

What does it do for the youngest children if a teacher doesn't use her normal tone of voice?
I never understood it then and I don't understand it now. I understood the teachers fine without their put on high voices.

Answer 1

The kind of speech that many people use when talking to young children has been proven to help children attend and understand the message. In studies of babies, they listened more intently to an adult talking in "baby talk" than to an adult speaking regularly. The high patterns in baby talk are not random, but serve as markers for the speech, highlighting nouns and verbs to make them clearer.

Of course, some people can take it too far. But there is a reason for this kind of speech.

Answer 2

look at what happens when a deep gruff person talks to babies, small children or young animals. They get frightened. Higher pitched voices usually seem to be less threatening, its just part of how we evolved and it works.

I have a very deep voice and always put on a high voice when talking to my various neices and nephews, they are much more willing to chat then.

Answer 3

Because they are stupid. What they don't realize is that kids understand them fine. Most kids as "why are they talking to me in high voices."

Answer 4

lol me too was suffering when i was young from my stupid teachers , who treat student children with such bad way
may be because they think by that way students will listen to them from fear
but whatever all hate them

Answer 5

Really - I don't

good luck!!!