We had a sign request for VANILLA at Baby Play and Sign yesterday. It is like the sign for chocolate, but you circle a V over the back of your nondominant hand instead of a C. Click on the word below to see the sign!
VANILLA
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Learn Sign for Yogurt
Hi! This sign was requested at last week's Baby Play and Sign, so here it is so we can all learn it! Get your Y sign ready and grab some yogurt! Yum!
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Happy Valentine's Day and signs for I Love You Poem!
Here's the signs for the poem we did at Baby Play and Sign today! You can click on the linked words to see the signs. Thanks to all of you who came and thanks for the hugs! Have a great Valentine's Day tomorrow and see you next Saturday!
I LOVE YOU POEM
Every FLOWER
LOVES a BEE
Every BIRD
LOVES a TREE
And I LOVE YOU!
Every ONE
LOVES a TWO
Every SOCK
LOVES a SHOE
And I LOVE YOU!
Now try to make up some more verses of your own!
(Here's a handout you can print out so you can point to the pictures as you sign them.)
Click here for more Valentine's Signs!
Happy Valentine's Day!
Happy Valentine's Day!
Friday, February 12, 2010
Happy Valentine's Day!
Just wanted to share a Valentine's video and some Valentine's signs with you!
Valentine's is a great time to teach your child about feelings and emotions. Click link to read the post on this.
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!
Valentine's is a great time to teach your child about feelings and emotions. Click link to read the post on this.
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!
Feelings and Emotions
February is Valentine's month and a great time to talk about feelings and emotions.
Click here for a Baby Hearts Video Tip
You can learn and review signs for feelings and emotions by watching the videos below.
Did you get a chance to see the other Baby Hearts Video Tip from Baby Signs on the importance of face-to-face interactions? If not, you can click here to go to the post on this.
Click here for a Baby Hearts Video Tip
You can learn and review signs for feelings and emotions by watching the videos below.
Did you get a chance to see the other Baby Hearts Video Tip from Baby Signs on the importance of face-to-face interactions? If not, you can click here to go to the post on this.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Face-to-face interactions are important to your baby's development
I love this new video from Baby Signs and Dr. Linda Acredelo about the importance of face-to-face interaction with your baby. Not only is it important for your baby's emotional development, but it is also the start of turn-taking, an essential language development skill.
These simple interactions are something that we don't even notice we are doing, yet how important they are! I learned this very early. My parents were missionaries in Swaziland, Africa, and I used to volunteer in the hospital maternity ward helping to wash the newborn babies every Saturday when I was about 10 years old. We would wash about 30 of them, so I must say, I was quite an expert at washing babies!
One Saturday I noticed that every week I saw the same baby girl in the room where they kept all the babies. She was so large that they propped her up on pillows so she would fit in the crib. I asked about her and they said that she was an orphan who had been left at the maternity ward. I discovered that she lay in the crib day after day and although her basic needs were being taken care of, the nurses did not have enough time to interact with her. She was left lying in the crib most of the day with no one holding her and talking to her. She could not smile, sit up, or even lift up her head although she was 6 months old!
I got permission and started taking her out and playing with her every afternoon after school. She had the most beautiful dark brown eyes, and I remember discovering how when we were looking at each other, I could see my reflection in her eyes. I realized that the picture she was forming of who she was was what she saw on my face and expressions! With this face-to-face interaction and a little attention, even from an inexperienced 10 year old like me, she learned to smile, laugh, lift up her head and even to sit up in the next three months.
This story had a happy ending because a lovely English family adopted her, but how sad it would have been if she did not get that face-to-face interaction and stayed immobile in that crib!
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| Baby Elizabeth To the children in your life, YOU are the most important thing in their universe and the "apple" of their eyes. |
One Saturday I noticed that every week I saw the same baby girl in the room where they kept all the babies. She was so large that they propped her up on pillows so she would fit in the crib. I asked about her and they said that she was an orphan who had been left at the maternity ward. I discovered that she lay in the crib day after day and although her basic needs were being taken care of, the nurses did not have enough time to interact with her. She was left lying in the crib most of the day with no one holding her and talking to her. She could not smile, sit up, or even lift up her head although she was 6 months old!
I got permission and started taking her out and playing with her every afternoon after school. She had the most beautiful dark brown eyes, and I remember discovering how when we were looking at each other, I could see my reflection in her eyes. I realized that the picture she was forming of who she was was what she saw on my face and expressions! With this face-to-face interaction and a little attention, even from an inexperienced 10 year old like me, she learned to smile, laugh, lift up her head and even to sit up in the next three months.
This story had a happy ending because a lovely English family adopted her, but how sad it would have been if she did not get that face-to-face interaction and stayed immobile in that crib!
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| My father going to the OR or "Theatre" as we called it in Africa. |
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| The entrance to our mission station in Manzini, Swaziland, with the hospital pictured behind. |
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