dunnkw t1_irod511 wrote on October 9, 2022 at 8:06 PM

I don’t know if this is related but when my son was a baby I was astonished at how natural my wife was at evoking sounds and attention from our newborn while o could barely get his attention.

But now that he’s a high schooler all he wants to do is lift weights and drink straight from the blender so I came out on top on this one. Got my own little gym bro.

Dragoness42 t1_irpgfpd wrote on October 10, 2022 at 1:02 AM

Infants naturally respond better to higher-pitched voices (hence our instinct to "baby talk" with higher pitch when talking to anything cute). Male voices are naturally lower, so it can be a little delay before they'll prefer you over a female voice as their tendencies mature.