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Teach Your Baby Sign Language
One of the trendiest baby communication
techniques being talked about lately is sign
language. The main reason for its popularity is
the fact that it allows you to communicate with
your baby before a spoken language is learned.
With baby sign language your baby is able to
tell others exactly what they want and need.
Because of this, the number of baby tantrums can
be greatly reduced.
Every parent has witnessed the familiar signs of
frustration in their baby before baby
communication skills are developed and baby is
unable to let others know what they are feeling
and what they may need.
Gestures are certainly within the range of a
baby's repertoire long before the ability to
articulate words is developed. Now, no one is
suggesting that you sit down and attempt to
teach your baby using the American Sign Language
system. You just need a fairly small range of
gestures that mean "I want", "please help", "I'm
hungry" etc. If these gestures are understood by
both baby and parent, they will serve the
purpose of improving communication.
You should start teaching your baby sign
language or, more accurately, basic gestures, by
example. Because these gestures are visual in
nature they are much easier for your baby to
learn than spoken words.
You need to get to the stage where your baby
begins to connect a basic gesture with an
action, activity or object. If you do this
consistently, you will find that over time your
baby starts to mimic these gestures. You can
also accompany the gesture with the word so
that, eventually, your baby will graduate to
using the spoken form.
Babies learn by imitating what they see adults
do, so if you are consistent with using some
basic gestures for certain activities and
objects, you'll be surprised at how quickly your
baby picks them up. The most important thing is
to keep it fun. Turn the activity of learning
sign language into a game and you will see the
best results.
Plan to develop a positive and informative
method of baby sign language early. This
communication with your baby will be a great
platform for communication and assist in their
growing experience.
Remember, good communication between you and
your offspring will be the basis from which they
will develop the most important life skill of
all...being able to communicate with others as
they make their way in the world.
You will also tend to find that the better the
communication channels you have with your child,
the better behaved they will be.
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