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Ever wonder if your children are on track with reaching their speech and language milestones? Check out this chart to see how your children are developing!
http://www.mysmarthands.com/Site/Speech_and_language_milestones_for_hearing_children.html This is probably the most important tip! Some parents give up too soon. They get frustrated because their babies don't sign back to them right away. Remember the more consistent you are the faster they will pick the signs up. In my experience, every child is able to learn basic signs provided his/her parents put in the small amount of effort needed. Youn must be patient and keep it up. This is why I suggest sticking with a few signs until your baby 'gets it'. ~ Laura Berg - Owner, My Smart Hands, 'educating young minds'
People who learn sign language from birth use a brain region that those who learn to sign later in life can't access.
http://web.archive.org/web/20020126214900/health.yahoo.com/search/healthnews?lb=s&p=id%3A7021 This report summarizes various research findings that have demonstrated how hearing children successfully learned to read or improve their reading skills with the use of signing & fingerspelling.
http://www.healthscout.com/template.asp?page=newsDetail&ap=1&id=109892&pageNum=1 http://mysmarthands.com/Site/Baby_Sign_Language_Research_Paper.html
This is a long research paper but has great points on signing with babies as well as links to other research at the end. I am excited to announce the release of our My Smart Hands baby sign language dictionary iPhone App!!
For more information about our app click here or to purchase it visit: http://itunes.com/app/MySmartHands As parents we all have days where we second guess our abilities...after seeing this I realize that even on my worst days, Bronwyn is just as lucky to have me for a mom as I am to have her as my daughter! Yikes!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/17/the-funniest-parenting-fa_n_578096.html?ref=fb&src=sp A friend sent this to me - had to share, too funny!
Lesson 1 1. Go to the grocery store. 2. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head office. 3. Go home. 4. Pick up the newspaper. 5. Read it for the last time. Lesson 2 Before you finally go ahead and have children, find a couple who already are parents and berate them about their. 1. Methods of discipline. 2. Lack of patience. 3. Appallingly low tolerance levels. 4. Allowing their children to run wild. 5. Suggest ways in which they might improve their child's breast feeding, sleep habits, toilet training, table manners, and overall behaviour. Enjoy it because it will be the last time in your life you will have all the answers. Lesson 3 A really good way to discover how the nights might feel. 1. Get home from work and immediately begin walking around the living room from 5PM to 10PM carrying a wet bag weighing approximately 8-12 pounds, with a radio turned to static (or some other obnoxious sound) playing loudly. (Eat cold food with one hand for dinner) 2. At 10PM, put the bag gently down, set the alarm for midnight, and go to sleep. 3. Get up at 12 and walk around the living room again, with the bag, until 1AM. 4. Set the alarm for 3AM. 5. As you can't get back to sleep, get up at 2AM and make a drink and watch an infomercial. 6. Go to bed at 2:45AM. 7. Get up at 3AM when the alarm goes off. 8. Sing songs quietly in the dark until 4AM. 9. Get up. Make breakfast. Get ready for work and go to work (work hard and be productive) Repeat steps 1-9 each night. Keep this up for 3-5 years. Look cheerful and together. Lesson 4 Can you stand the mess children make? To find out. 1. Smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the curtains. 2. Hide a piece of raw chicken behind the stereo and leave it there all summer. 3. Stick your fingers in the flower bed. 4. Then rub them on the clean walls. 5. Take your favourite book, photo album, etc. Wreck it. 6. Spill milk on your new pillows. Cover the stains with crayons. How does that look? Lesson 5 Dressing small children is not as easy as it seems. 1. Buy an octopus and a small bag made out of loose mesh. 2. Attempt to put the octopus into the bag so that none of the arms hang out. Time allowed for this - all morning. Lesson 6 Forget the BMW and buy a mini-van. And don't think that you can leave it out in the driveway spotless and shining. Family cars don't look like that. 1. Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove compartment. Leave it there. 2. Get a dime. Stick it in the CD player. 3. Take a family size package of chocolate cookies. Mash them into the back seat. Sprinkle cheerios all over the floor, then smash them with your foot. 4. Run a garden rake along both sides of the car. Lesson 7 Go to the local grocery store. Take with you the closest thing you can find to a pre-school child. (A full-grown goat is an excellent choice). If you intend to have more than one child, then definitely take more than one goat. Buy your week's groceries without letting the goats out of your sight. Pay for everything the goat eats or destroys. Until you can easily accomplish this, do not even contemplate having children. Lesson 8 1. Hollow out a melon. 2. Make a small hole in the side. 3. Suspend it from the ceiling and swing it from side to side. 4. Now get a bowl of soggy Cheerios and attempt to spoon them into the swaying melon by pretending to be an airplane. 5. Continue until half the Cheerios are gone. 6. Tip half into your lap. The other half, just throw up in the air. You are now ready to feed a nine- month-old baby. Lesson 9 Learn the names of every character from Sesame Street , Barney, Disney, the Teletubbies, and Pokemon. Watch nothing else on TV but PBS, the Disney channel or Noggin for at least five years. (I know, you're thinking What's 'Noggin'?) Exactly the point. Lesson 10 Make a recording of Fran Drescher saying 'mommy' repeatedly. (Important: no more than a four second delay between each 'mommy'; occasional crescendo to the level of a supersonic jet is required). Play this tape in your car everywhere you go for the next four years. You are now ready to take a long trip with a toddler. Lesson 11 Start talking to an adult of your choice. Have someone else continually tug on your skirt hem, shirt- sleeve, or elbow while playing the 'mommy' tape made from Lesson 10 above. You are now ready to have a conversation with an adult while there is a child in the room. |
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