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Hoe Do You feel About Baby Signing

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Hoe Do You feel About Baby Signing

As a parent do you feel that teaching your child to use sign as a means to communicate is a smart parenting idea or do you feel the opposite about this topic. There is much controversy on whether baby signing benefits children or not, i'm interested to hear your view points. I have been teaching my children how to sign since they were born and feel that it has done wonders for me. How do feel about it? Signing is my passion so I am interested to hear what other parents think about it.
asked by Etel_Leit 1 year 17 weeks ago
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by VforVenture submitted 1 year 17 weeks

I think it can be a great communication tool, especially if the child is in a daycare where the caregivers also sign. It has the potential to make communication easier.But, I have also seen plenty of cases where it actually delays a child's speech development. I've known several children who relied on signing and didn't actually work on learning how to speak. I haven't taught my children to sign but my oldest daughter did learn that non-verbal communication was easier and she was speech delayed.

As a stay at home mom, I don't see any benefits for teaching my kids to sign. I understand their needs, I understand their words. I haven't had to deal with my kids being overly frustrated from communication issues.

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by sjvanderwey submitted 1 year 17 weeks

My daughter knew more, eat, bath, book, please, thank you and all done. She has a lot of words but those words took a long time to come. She was talking really well and would still use the sign for please until she was almost 2 years old instead of the word. I have tried with my son to teach him some signs. He is almost 10 months old and has signed more and eat when coping me but not on his own. My daughter was signing eat and more by 8 months, I do not think I worked as hard on teaching him.

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by parentingbabies submitted 27 weeks 6 days

Everyone I have spoke to says Baby Sign language works-

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by parentingbabies submitted 26 weeks 6 days

Teaching babies sign language is more than just an early communication method, it has some good child developmental benefits too

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