Baby Sign language post - where did it go

Re: Baby Sign language post - where did it go

• Culkinator54

  December 2010

  Nope, she DDed with out giving a reason. 

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• tripthelightfantastick

  December 2010

  StarAnnice:

  She DD'd...but it would seem that without actually giving the reason, the possible reason may have been that he was teaching baby signs that weren't based off of ASL, and she didn't want her baby to learn that because it wouldn't be helpful in the future.  (Even though the baby will forget them, see my post below). 

  This was my assumption based on a couple of her posts she wrote, she's not confirmed it. She did say something about it involving personal family matters.

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• elyshaswedding

  December 2010

  I didn't see the original post, but I know Kelly, and I know that she would never intentionally post something on here that would be considered rude or thoughtless. 

  From my own experience, fter working in child care for years, I can honestly say that many of the babies who were taught some form of sign language (ASL or otherwise), were actually a little slower to verbalize than the others.  They, for the most part, all catch up to each other, but much like babies who come from multi-lingual households, I did notice that they weren't as verbal as early.  (Of course, this is not the case for every child, I am just speaking from my own experience.) I never did any signing with Lilah, and she had a vocabulary of nearly 75 words at the age of one. More power to the people who do it, if it means gaining an understanding of what your baby wants, but I don't do it with my kids and I don't feel like I am hurting them in any way.

  I don't know what's up with my siggy and I am too lazy to figure it out.

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• ToledoDeux member

  December 2010

  elyshaswedding:

  I didn't see the original post, but I know Kelly, and I know that she would never intentionally post something on here that would be considered rude or thoughtless. 

  From my own experience, fter working in child care for years, I can honestly say that many of the babies who were taught some form of sign language (ASL or otherwise), were actually a little slower to verbalize than the others.  They, for the most part, all catch up to each other, but much like babies who come from multi-lingual households, I did notice that they weren't as verbal as early.  (Of course, this is not the case for every child, I am just speaking from my own experience.) I never did any signing with Lilah, and she had a vocabulary of nearly 75 words at the age of one. More power to the people who do it, if it means gaining an understanding of what your baby wants, but I don't do it with my kids and I don't feel like I am hurting them in any way.

  This may be your limited experience, but multiple studies suggest exactly the opposite.
  

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