Baby Talk
Imagine being able to talk to your baby before most parents even consider the possibility of understanding what their babies needs are completely.
The tears and frustration from both you and your baby would be eliminated drastically and instead would be replaced with understanding and patience. How nice would that be?
Even though babies around 6 months and even earlier cannot talk, they still have the ability to communicate their needs and wants through communication. Because they are frustrated they normally cry and scream to get their point across but there is an easier way for them to make their point and make it specific to something as well.
They can use sign language.
Many parents of hearing children are beginning to use sign language with their babies at an early age. Babies are ready and willing to learn these signs and will soak in the information that you give them.
You can teach them to express all sorts of emotions, needs, and interests including such things as wanting milk, feeling hungry, feeling tired, interest in a ball, interest in a light and so on and so forth.
A lot of people worry that by teaching their babies sign language it will hinder their speech in some way but research has shown that babies who know sign speak earlier, become better readers and have higher IQ’s then their peers.
When you are teaching specific signs to your baby you are not only doing the sign. You are also speaking it to them and using it at relevant times to the sign itself. So if they have gone or are going to the bathroom in their diaper and you use the sign for toilet then they are going to associate the sign for toilet with going to the bathroom in their diaper.
If you are breast feeding them or giving them a bottle of milk and do the sign for milk each time this happens then they will associate the sign for milk with drinking milk.
Your baby is constantly using their eyes to see what you are doing, what’s going on in front of them, and what’s going on around them. They are ready participants when it comes to sign language. So for example after you’ve taught them the sign for light, whenever they see a light and want to show you it they can use the sign for light to show you what they are checking out and fascinated with at the moment.
