My First Baby Signs is a great new book by Phil Conigliaro and Tae Won Yu to help you and your baby learn some baby sign language.
Baby sign language, which is a curated selection of ASL for most common baby needs, is very helpful when communicating with pre-verbal tots. We used it a lot with our son (who is now four-years-old) to communicate before he could talk and it saved us a lot of frustration and crying. My First Baby Signs has the most common baby signs like “all done,” “eat,” and “milk” presented with really cute art and written in a way to make it easy to read with your baby.
But the best part about My First Baby Signs, is that it’s also a pull tab book. Each page actually features a tab that, when pulled, illustrates the motion of the sign! This helps both parents and baby understand how to make the sign a lot more than a static visual. It also helps make the book a lot more engaging for your child.
I made a quick little video showing one of the pages in action. Enjoy!
Whether or not you pick up My First Baby Signs, I highly recommend learning some baby signs to communicate with your pre-verbal kids. But, you should definitely grab the book as it will help with learning and reinforcing the signs that much quicker!
Our son picked up the baby signs, that were most important to him (food, drink, music an sleep) and it’s really great. A lot less frustration on both sides. And it’s really cute, seeing him so happy when he’s instantly understood. Right now he’s combining signs with small words. For example he can tell us, what he’d like to eat (even though “apple” can mean a lot of vegetables and fruit from an actual apple to an avocado or a date).
I can really recommend baby signs to every parent. You got to be persistent and have a lot of patience and some signs are easier to teach than others (because you need to show the signe in the right situation, and of the situation is rather abstract, you need a lot of work)
Absolutely – context is key. The book is nice in that it has the baby in the situation that’s appropriate but real world context and persistence is critical! Thanks for reading!
This book is great. Just bought a baby can make a birthday gift. Maybe I will order now
Absolutely – context is key. The book is nice in that it has the baby in the situation that’s appropriate but real world context and persistence is critical! Thanks for reading!