You’ve worked on the signs for months, but still baby isn’t signing back. You notice those little eyes looking intently at your hand signing milk, but the most response you are getting is an open mouth ready for the next bite. Sound familiar? Don’t be discouraged! Though you may feel like a BSL teaching failure,… Reads more »
Posts Categorized: baby tips
Hooray for Signing & Playing-Simple Steps for the Novice Play Group Lead
More & more sign language for babies is becoming a chore element of most early child development curriculums. The experts agree; the emotional & cognitive benefits resulting from having a tool for early communication will make a life-changing difference in the lives of babies and parents. Urban epicenters and densely populated suburban areas often… Reads more »
Signing For Babies-It Takes a Village!
The mantra of teaching signing for babies is teach contextually and consistently. This is all good until we are faced with the practical details of signing. Baby sign language can often require two hands. The majority of us only have two of those and quite often one is busy holding, feeding and nurturing our little… Reads more »
Encouraging language development-Tailoring Your Approach to your Baby’s Gender
There are too many variables to say girls learn this way and boys learn that way, but as long as we are making a few general comparisons of the genders and their language development, there are a few tips I’ve found helpful when teaching girls and boys. Show and Tell: When teaching a new… Reads more »
I Want to Leave a Better World for my Baby-Environmental Practices That Make Sense
We are bombarded daily with words such as sustainability, carbon footprint, eco-friendliness recycling & up-cycling. The decisions we make every hour will impact the world we leave behind for our little ones. How do we make our green choices? First we need to understand that one is not better than the other but rather each… Reads more »
