I first learned about baby signs many years ago. My college roommate
has triplets, and started signing with them pretty young as a
sanity-saving move. It sounded like a wise thing to do, so when I
became a mom myself my husband and I started sign with my daughter when
she was probably eight months old.
So this story out of Halifax, about baby sign being a growing trend there, brought back nice memories
We
never became wild and crazy signers – I knew people whose kids had like
30 signs, but we pretty much stuck to milk, more, eat, please, thank
you and sleep (although she never really felt a need to use that one
because in her world sleep is for suckers) and the other pretty basic
ones. I am positive it saved us from a lot of pre-verbal meltdowns,
because she was able to communicate with us instead of relying on grunt
and point — by which I mean my grunting and pointing.
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