I've made many, many mistakes when I first became a father, and now that I have a 2nd on the way, I want to avoid making the same mistakes over again. I also want to help others that have questions and others that are afraid of making mistakes. This is my journey, welcome!
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Baby Signlanguage part 1
When I first heard of this, my wife used to work at a daycare, I was
blown away. Then I saw the movie that had it and was like, 'I can do
that!' So I decided that when the baby was old enough I would teach her
some sign language.
She was around 4mo old when she
learned "done", and I used a trick I had learned from helping raise my
niece, Lauren now 13, and was able too teach my daughter to sign done
using an ESL and Spanish combination.
I'm not an expert at
Spanish, in fact I only know a hand full of words, but growing up, the
words I knew, like caca for poop and moco for booger, I thought they
were English.
First is "bah". I can't spell it and I'm not
sure if that's the correct way to spell it, but I do know its like
saying "done" and through repetition I was able to help her begin her
communication. 2nd was "food". I would say, "Bah-pah" which I learned
as food, although I'm sure it means potatoes, and did the sign for
food. Sure it took a while, but getting to know that she was hungry and
when she was done was a giant leap in a direction that changed the
difficulty of being a stay at home.
Have you ever taught your child/children to sign? What was the first word they picked up and how old?
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