Baby Signs for Mealtime (Baby Signs (Harperfestival))

Me and my 17 month old both love these books, she doesn't say many words yet but she's quickly picking up the signs from the Baby Signs books, and she loves paging through them.

My baby girl loves it and sign a lot since she reads it with daddy. Delivered very quickly

Baby sign is not straight up American Sign Language, nor does it admit to be. Baby sign is for your toddler to be able to tell you things that they can not yet say. The signs are simple and helps the parents and the frustrations of your child with less tears, pointing and grunting. It also lets your child tell you things, wich in my eyes is so awesome! My daughter can tell me if she sees a dog or horse, she can tell me if she wants a drink, says please, thank you, she can tell me she wants me to read her a book or if she wants more of something. I love that the book is a board book which is perfect for a toddler. My daughter was adopted from China when she was 10 months old and for us, Baby Sign is awesome. Yes, it is not true ASL, but at least we are also teaching our daughter who is thriving and speaking that there are other people who can't talk and sign instead. There are other books that are ASL based, but for toddler hands are more complex and difficult.One more thing... baby sign is not highly know about and people who see our daughter sign ask if she's deaf. When we explain, I think they see how neat it is that our daughter can do the signs. We also happened to be at Mc Donald's the other day and a deaf couple sat down and began to sign. Well, my daughter's eyes lit up and as we where leaving she toddled up to this couple. At first the couple was annoyed, I guess thinking she was staring ( she's only 19 months), but when I explained she knew some baby sign and did a few signs the couples eyes lite and I think it made them feel that sign was important, they didn't comment that the signs wheren't ASL, but where happy someone was teaching sign. I hope this helps. It also helps to have the Baby Sign book as well as the board book. If I have a complaint it is that some signs are repeated in some other other board book! There is nothing better that seeing your daughter sign " dog sleeping" and I think it actually makes her feel like she has something important to say!!!

使われている写真が全て小さな子供なのでうちの子も興味をひいたようです。表現できる言葉がりんごやバナナなど身近なフルーツや身近な日常会話なので生後7ヶ月ごろから根気よく続けて今はたくさんの表現ができるようになりました。まだ2歳前で言葉は話しませんがベビーサインでかなり表現できるため親もたいへん助かってます。

かわいらしい赤ちゃんが、お食事の時に使いやすいベビーサインをしている写真の絵本です。とっても、キュート！！

Baby signs do work! I found Baby Signs to be a great place to get started, and to get excited about using signs with your baby. It had lots of examples of success stories and how children and parents are using signs to communicate.I was encouraged to try signs with my son. At 8 months, he started to mimic a couple of the signs, but didn't really understand them. Then, at about 11 months, understanding kicked in and he really started to utilize the signs. He's a little over a year now and using signs such as all done, more, rabbit, telephone, drink and sleep/tired. As soon as he is using one really well, we add a new one.It has been SO helpful for him to be able to communicate with us! At the dinner table, he can tell us if he's done or wants more of something. If he's thirsty, he's learning to ask for a drink. And his enjoyment at using the signs is obvious. He is thrilled whenever we understand what he wants. The experience is very near what was recounted by parents in the book.The book shows examples of signs you can use, and we've used a couple, and also made up some of our own (as suggested in the book). As the author points out, it hasn't slowed his verbal vocabulary at all, either; he's a very talkative child and knows quite a few words.My only complaint about Baby Signs was that points tend to be repeated fairly often. It is a very quick read.But I have found the experience of using baby signs wonderful and I don't think I would have been as excited to do it without having read Baby Signs first. I would highly recommend it; read it then have your family and daycare providers read it too!

This book is easy to read and use. It helps babies learn vocabulary and communicate with you in their own way before they can speak. We bought it for our son to use in a few months after seeing how well it worked for our neice who is now four. She learned and used the signs quickly. Within a short time she was even inventing her own signs for things which made it so easy to understand her. I think that is a big reason why she was so calm and easy going because she did not have to get frustrated and cry whenever she wanted something. When she began to speak she used clear, complete sentences. I'd swear she was a little grown up! Amazing.