What is Baby Sign Language?
The best way to communicate with your baby before your baby can talk is through baby sign language. It is always upsetting and stressful to have a sick child. It is also very worrisome because young children cannot tell you where and what exactly hurts. This usually leaves parents guessing if the baby has an earache or is teething or is coming down with a cold. You may notice that babies easily learn to wave bye-bye and shake the heads no. These gestures are examples of baby sign language is one of the most interesting, fun, exciting, and useful tools that you can teach your baby that has many benefits. One of the benefits of signing is the reduction of frustration because your baby will be able to tell you whether they are tired, hurt, hungry, or want their favorite toy.
By equipping your child with a tool that allows them to communicate their feelings, ideas, and needs, you can help decrease their frustration from being unable to communicate. This will also reduce your stress, and as a parent, you are helping your child feel more relaxed and less stress because you understand their ideas, feelings, and needs. Teaching your child sign language also increases your bonding time with your baby. This also allows you to get to know their personalities a bit more as well as build a better foundation of trust between the two of you at a very young age.
A lot of parents do not really understand how baby sign language can help their children. There are parents who believe that signing is only for the deaf and mute, but that is absolutely incorrect. As a matter of fact, it can actually help your child gain language and verbal skills at a very early age. Studies show that children who use sign language to communicate as babies actually have higher IQ than children who do not sign as babies. Signing is also the beginning of learning an officially recognized language, American Sign Language, which is the third most used language in the United States after English and Spanish.
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