Man, every once in a while I forget how incredibly, uselessly intense parents of babies and toddlers can be - especially with the first one!

So, yeah. There are whole societies out there where people hardly speak to infants and toddlers at all except to get them to sleep or give them direct instructions, but somehow, they all do learn to talk. Unless you lock your child in a closet all day and don't interact with them at all, you cannot possibly screw up language development that badly. Promise.