Teach Your Baby to Sign!

Why?
Teaching sign language to hearing babies improves their language, vocabulary and reading skills, and furthers brain development. Teaching babies sign will allow them to talk with you before they have the physical ability to speak; they can tell you they want milk instead of juice, or an apple instead of a cookie (like that's gonna happen!), or that their tummy hurts. After they begin to speak, you won't need your 4 year old to interpret for you - fortunately your baby knows sign.

Children like to use sign. They pay more attention, and because of the movement, they get more involved. Using fingerspelling along with teaching phonics and math increases children's speed, accuracy, memory and understanding of both languages and math.

Here's an idea to try:
When Spring finally arrives, open your doors and windows, and have a "silent hour", with no voicing - only signs and the sounds of Spring.

Finally, if you enjoy lifting your hands to worship the Lord, then you will enjoy signing with your hands to worship!

There are many web sites that will help you learn. Here is one link to get you started: