Baby sign language rocks!

No doubt you have heard about baby sign language. It’s an amazing tool that you can use to teach your baby how to sign certain words. Words like milk, more, eat, dog, book, and play. As your baby grows, you can teach them more and more words.

It's exciting to see your baby make his/her first sign before they can talk! Instead of crying and screaming, your baby can simply sign to you his/her wants and needs.

This is a video of Tiana, a georgous girl who happens to have Down syndrome. She is a star signer!

Children with delayed speech-including children with Down syndrome-especially benefit from using sign. Non-verbal children have a way to express themselves.

But I don’t know American Sign Language (ASL), you might say. How am I going to teach my baby sign language? The absolute best way I found was also the easiest for me—Signing Time DVD’s.

Rachel Coleman’s daughter was born deaf, and that’s when she knew what she had to do. Using her musical talents, she and others created the Signing Time show on PBS to teach ASL to kids. The company put the shows on DVD and they have some especially for teaching baby sign language.

Baby Signing Time DVD Gift Set This set includes Baby Signing Time Volume 1 & 2 DVDs and also Volume 1 & 2 music CDs. Makes a great gift!

My daughter started signing at around 14 months—her first sign was ‘milk’. She's not talking yet, but with her vocabulary of over 65 signs, she can communicate with us quite effectively.

Using Signing Time is the best because I have 3 kids. I’m a busy mom. I set up the DVD player and we all gather around and watch the show. Each DVD teaches several signs with fun music and graphics, and all my kids love them! It’s fun for me, too because I have an excuse to sit down, put my feet up, and watch a cute show that helps every member of my family communicate with each other.

Baby sign language is a real benefit when you are in a place that’s noisy and hard to hear, or somewhere like church when you need to keep quiet. You can silently tell the little buggers to stop wiggling. (Whether they do or not is a different story! Ahh, we love 'em anyway.) They can tell you they have to go to the bathroom without using that really loud “quiet” voice that kids use when they think they’re whispering.

Because I am a busy mom (and didn’t know ASL) it makes me all the more grateful to Rachel's vision of teaching kids sign. It really makes my life so much easier. We have so much going on that it’s nice to enjoy easy for once!

As a parent, I feel strongly the responsibility to nurture all my children, and I know that I am giving my daughter the tools she needs to succeed and grow. That makes me happy.

Signing Time Series One DVD Collection This is it! The Full Collection of the Signing Time series in one package. This package includes thirteen DVDs and four music CDs.

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