Signing With Baby

It seems that ever since parents saw the baby signing in "Meet the Fockers", many other people have gotten onboard to teaching their babies sign language.  Recent studies have shown that babies are capable of communicating through sign language at a much younger rate than we once thought was possible.  There are so many positive aspects to signing with our babies.  It encourages parents to interact with their babies.  It encourages conversation, which helps with language development.  It helps to increase baby's I.Q. also.  Besides all that, signing is fun!

If you want to take your baby's signing to a new level, try to introduce the written word at the same time you introduce a new sign.  If you are going to teach your baby the sign for milk, you can write the word down and show your baby the word milk.  Tell your baby that this is the word milk.  Then you can make the sign for milk.  This takes but a second but the rewards are huge. Babies have the ability to learn written, spoken and sign language all at the same time and it requires no effort for your baby to learn.  Talk about forming some brain connections, this is a fun way to stimulate your baby's language development.