We starting teaching sign language to Adam when he was about 6 months old and by 12 months he recognized a lot and could make just a few. By 15 months he consistently used about 25 signs, although he started dropping them as he learned to actually say the word. But he began understanding the signs much earlier than he could make the sign and it made life so much easier (from what I've heard from other parents anyway) because we knew if he wanted a bottle, wanted to to eat, wanted to sleep, etc. rather than him just crying at us.
I started signing with Abby a couple of months ago (just doing 'milk', 'diaper change', 'eat', and 'drink') and she definitely recognizes the sign for 'milk'! Here's the proof....
I have seen her squeeze her fists in reaction to me signing it or while she's drinking her bottle so I think that might be her first attempts at signing back! She also seems to recognize the sign for 'eat' sometimes. I want to add in 'sleep', 'more', and 'bath time'. It's just so much harder to remember to do the signs than it was with Adam. I just need to make it second nature again...I'm out of practice!
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Where do you find the signs? I need to teach Addie the sign for 'more' cause she screams at me and it drives me nuts...but if she signed it, it would be so much better!
Sign is a life saver with those little ones!! Love her pony!
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