10 Positives For Using Baby Sign Language by Gary Thomas
Picture the scene:
Your lovely little bundle of one-year-old goodness wants something, and he seems
to want it quite desperately, but you have no idea what it is! He can't be
hungry because he was fed a short time ago. The lovely gargling noise that you
found so adorable just a few moments ago has gone. It's been replaced with a
loud, almost painful sounding noise. As his irritation grows so does your
frustration, and he is now shouting and crying with impatience. You can see that
he's going to start a full-on screaming session if he doesn't get what he wants.
How you wish he could just say the word! By learning a few simple signing
techniques he can tell you what he wants!
Babies have the desire to
communicate but they lack the ability to do so because their speech develops at
a slower rate than their hand-eye coordination. Teaching your baby a few simple
signs will overcome this problem, as thousands of h
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