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15:05:57 |
WeeHands |
OFFICIAL START OF THE SIGNING WITH BABY
CHAT! WELCOME! MY NAME IS SARA FROM
WEEHANDS AND I AM YOUR HOSTESS TODAY!
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THE SUNDAY FOLLOWING THIS CHAT...PLEASE
KEEP THAT IN MIND WHEN POSTING TO THIS
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15:08:57 |
WeeHands |
hi there! |
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15:10:04 |
ourwiefamily |
oh good ... glad to see everyone! |
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15:10:24 |
WeeHands |
we should officially always start this
chat at 4:10!! |
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15:10:37 |
WeeHands |
how is everyone!? |
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15:11:28 |
ourwiefamily |
Maria had her first birthday this past
weekend so we gave her the Baby Signing
Time set |
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15:11:38 |
WeeHands |
what a perfect gift! |
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15:11:50 |
ourwiefamily |
Surprisingly enough, though, she doesn't
seem as interested in it as her 2yo
brother. |
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15:11:59 |
WeeHands |
:) |
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15:12:10 |
WeeHands |
what does he think of them? |
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15:12:33 |
ourwiefamily |
He likes them ... not as well as the
original six, I don't think ... but he
was thrilled to have some new ones to
watch. |
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15:13:26 |
ourwiefamily |
My 11 yo commented on the couple new
signs he learned from it too. |
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15:13:51 |
Pauline |
Good evening! |
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15:13:51 |
WeeHands |
i think they are a great addition to the
ST DVDs |
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15:14:01 |
ourwiefamily |
I've been trying some of the suggestions
to coax Maria to sign. One day, she
signed more" and then she would clap for
herself and say Yeah!" |
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15:14:09 |
WeeHands |
the songs are great and have a more
focused vocabulary for wee babes |
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15:14:13 |
ourwiefamily |
But now she won't sign more" again
(sigh)" |
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15:14:39 |
WeeHands |
what do you mean ourwiefamily ? |
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15:15:11 |
ourwiefamily |
well, that one time she figured it out
and got a very positive response from us
and was so proud so she kept doing it
when appropriate during that snack. |
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15:15:16 |
ourwiefamily |
She did it a couple other times that day |
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15:15:43 |
ourwiefamily |
but then later that day and the days
since then, she won't use the sign. We
say, you want more?" and sign it but she
won't sign it back again" |
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15:15:56 |
ourwiefamily |
so I do exactly what I did the first day
but now she won't respond to it |
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15:16:09 |
ourwiefamily |
She did skip right to clapping and
saying yeah" though, lol" |
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15:16:28 |
WeeHands |
when did she first sign it? |
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15:16:39 |
ourwiefamily |
while eating a snack |
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15:17:29 |
WeeHands |
how long ago? |
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15:17:39 |
ourwiefamily |
probably about 4 days ago |
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15:18:03 |
WeeHands |
it'll come back |
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15:18:25 |
WeeHands |
just keep offering her things and
pausing expectantly before giving it to
her |
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15:18:28 |
ourwiefamily |
that has been the case for everyone of
her signs so far ... she does it for a
day or two and then doesn't again for
weeks or months |
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15:18:56 |
WeeHands |
reward her claps with something, if
appropriate, as if she signed an
approximation of more"" |
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15:19:15 |
WeeHands |
offer small bits of food and model the
sign for the food or for more"" |
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15:19:49 |
WeeHands |
take a turn with her toys (without
frustrating her) and model the sign for
the toys or for more"" |
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15:20:07 |
ourwiefamily |
A friend's baby was signing please" at a
get together the other day. As far as I
know, they barely have tried to do
signing ... I feel like I've worked so
hard for this and yet everyone else's
babies are so much further ahead!" |
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15:20:48 |
ourwiefamily |
This is true of people on the dues lists
I'm on where their babies have been
signing for like 3 months (the others
are up to a month older than Maria). |
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15:20:49 |
WeeHands |
how many signs for she have
ourwiefamily ? |
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15:21:00 |
ourwiefamily |
That she actually uses? |
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15:21:05 |
WeeHands |
yes |
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15:21:06 |
ourwiefamily |
Or that she did one time and never did
again? |
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15:21:15 |
WeeHands |
both together |
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15:21:28 |
ourwiefamily |
that she actually uses ... none at this
point |
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15:21:47 |
WeeHands |
that she's ever done |
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15:21:51 |
WeeHands |
bye bye? |
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15:22:02 |
WeeHands |
hands up to say pick me up"?" |
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15:22:18 |
ourwiefamily |
that she has used one or two days once
over the past month or more ... more",
"bye bye", "food", "pick me up", "mom",
"milk"" |
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15:22:36 |
ourwiefamily |
although milk" she used consistently for
a couple weeks and then suddenly quit" |
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15:22:46 |
WeeHands |
that's 6! that's great! |
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15:22:47 |
signingbaby |
How old is the baby, ourwiefamily? |
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15:22:53 |
ourwiefamily |
just turned 1 on Sunday |
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15:23:03 |
WeeHands |
the first 10 signs are slow to come I've
found |
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15:23:26 |
Pauline |
that didn't go quite right |
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15:23:34 |
ourwiefamily |
I still think she believes that signs
are something we do to entertain her ...
that it's something she is supposed to
watch and grin at instead of use. |
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15:23:41 |
WeeHands |
i recall writing signs acquired on the
calendar for joshua and it seemed at the
time like FOREVER between signs |
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15:23:56 |
WeeHands |
that's okay ourwiefamily ? she's right! |
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15:24:08 |
signingbaby |
Lauren used milk" for a whole month
starting at 7 months then completely
quit signing at all until she was 11
months old. During that time she was
concentrating very hard on learning and
acquiring a lot of physical
developmental skills, like sitting and" |
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15:24:11 |
signingbaby |
crawling and pulling up |
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15:24:29 |
WeeHands |
babies do the same things with sounds -
listening to us, laughing at us, then
babbling an approximation of the sounds,
etc. |
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15:24:36 |
ourwiefamily |
wow ... glad to hear that from someone
else, signingbaby |
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15:24:55 |
signingbaby |
Often if babies are occuppied with
physical development they might not pick
up signs |
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15:24:59 |
ourwiefamily |
maybe when she finally gets walking
down, she wil start signing again. |
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15:25:16 |
WeeHands |
when i look back at that calendar for
joshua he learned a new sign about every
2-3 weeks between 9 and 14 months |
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15:25:17 |
ladybugs984 |
my son was signing milk from 10 months
on but as soon as he learned the sign
more" he stopped signing for milk and
used "more" for everything" |
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15:25:22 |
signingbaby |
It doesn't happen to every baby but it
does happen quite a bit |
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15:25:39 |
signingbaby |
ladybugs984 that is really common too |
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15:25:44 |
ourwiefamily |
I feel like I'm in a sea of people
having all this success w/ babies who
are almost her exact age and I was
starting honestly to feel like ... I
don't know. Just frustrated I guess. |
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15:25:50 |
ourwiefamily |
I know I should be more patient! |
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15:25:51 |
signingbaby |
My two signing babies signed milk" for
everything" |
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15:26:05 |
WeeHands |
more" and "please" are very powerful
signs/words!" |
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15:26:24 |
ourwiefamily |
It's just hard to keep doing something
that seems to get almost no response.
Signing is somethign I have to do so
intentionally. It doesn't come
naturally tome to remember to sign
things to her. And then to have her not
respond really, well it's hard to |
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15:26:27 |
ourwiefamily |
keep going with it |
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15:26:32 |
signingbaby |
It can be really frustrating ... here I
had countless resources and 2 years of
experience signing with Corbin yet I
couldn't get my baby daughter to sign
back to me |
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15:26:41 |
WeeHands |
ourwiefamily my sabrina didn't sign til
11 months though and I was frustrated as
well! |
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15:27:11 |
WeeHands |
i thought okay her brother signed at 9
months, i teach infant sign language,
i'm so smart (haha!) - she'll sign even
earlier! |
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15:27:28 |
signingbaby |
I can't guarantee it but I bet she
starts signing back soon |
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15:27:30 |
ourwiefamily |
(sounds like me as a LLL Leader and then
having a baby w/ serious nursing
issues!) |
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15:27:32 |
WeeHands |
not the case! plus she didn't walk
until 17 months - very frustrating! |
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15:27:42 |
WeeHands |
LOL! exactly! |
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15:28:01 |
teresajo |
hello. may i ask what the topic is
currently?? |
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15:28:03 |
ourwiefamily |
my co-leader told me *I* had trained in
breastfeeding stuff, but my baby
hadn't. ;) |
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15:28:24 |
WeeHands |
of course at 17 months, after we made
all these appointments for her she stood
up, signed bye bye mama" and ran away
from me!" |
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15:28:27 |
ourwiefamily |
so I gues I can extrapolate that to
signing too ... she didn't spring from
the womb wired to sign |
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15:28:47 |
ourwiefamily |
teresajo the topic is signing w/ your
baby |
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15:28:53 |
WeeHands |
all babies are soooo different |
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15:29:02 |
signingbaby |
Yes they are |
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15:29:03 |
WeeHands |
but they often surprise the heck out of
you! |
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15:29:05 |
teresajo |
i do that everyday! |
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15:29:09 |
signingbaby |
BTW hi sara |
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15:29:21 |
Pauline |
signing for deafness or for early better
communication? |
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15:29:34 |
ourwiefamily |
I bet part of it for me is that my other
kids picked it up so quickly and use it
so much that I figured she would just
hop right in as she got older. |
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15:29:58 |
WeeHands |
i remember concentrating on the baby
vocabulary with joshua - milk, ball,
more, mom, etc. I showed him the sign
for tea" once (as in don't touch mommy's
tea) and that's what he got and signed
most often for a period!" |
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15:30:02 |
ourwiefamily |
Have you heard when the next Signing
Time DVDs are coming out for sure? By
Christmas? I'm hoping so. |
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15:30:10 |
WeeHands |
hi monica! |
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15:30:35 |
teresajo |
christmas release would be perfect for
ST. |
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15:30:36 |
WeeHands |
for early better communication for the
most part...but some are Deaf here |
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15:30:39 |
ourwiefamily |
Because that is the other thing ... the
kids all signed like crazy for so long,
but that has really decreased over the
last couple months too. Now they just
sign at Maria most of the time |
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15:31:05 |
ourwiefamily |
though my 2yo still uses sign when he
thinks his words aren't working fast
enough,lol ... he's figured out signs
get results! |
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15:31:17 |
WeeHands |
i met with a mom who had silent shopping
afternoons with her 9 year old daughter
- too cute! |
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15:31:39 |
signingbaby |
Lauren still uses signs when I can't
understand what she is saying ... like
today, she kept saying Duff" and I had
no idea until she signed "giraffe"" |
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15:31:44 |
ladybugs984 |
My son learned the words along witht he
signs, the first time he said more" wa
sthe first time he signed it, the same
with bath and "bye bye"" |
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15:31:48 |
WeeHands |
you may have a baby that just is laid
back and likes to watch everyone
ourwiefamily |
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15:32:16 |
ourwiefamily |
she sure does grin at us when we sign to
her! |
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15:32:17 |
WeeHands |
in the next few weeks / months she'll
most likely surprise you with everything
she's been absorbing |
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15:32:45 |
WeeHands |
too cute! |
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15:33:17 |
teresajo |
when teaching a hearing child (14
months), is it best to sign sentenses or
should i stick to single words at a
time? |
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15:33:27 |
WeeHands |
has everyone seen the halloween signs at
www.signwithsam.com ? |
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15:33:33 |
ladybugs984 |
My son only knows about 15 words and
he's almost two, maybe i should start
signing more to increase his vocabulary,
LOL |
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15:33:52 |
WeeHands |
you can really sign at your comfort
level teresajo ? |
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15:33:59 |
ourwiefamily |
