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How To Begin Signing With Your Baby

I recommend that parents start with 2-5 signs. This is not for the baby’s sake, but rather, for the parents. Because signing doesn’t come naturally to most people, it can be challenging to maintain the practice, especially if it takes a while for your child to sign back to you. […]

Second Child Syndrome

I am having serious mommy guilt lately! I look at my son and I realize I am inflicting the second child syndrome on him and I fully realize that I (and my husband) are the cause of this. What is this ‘second child syndrome’ I talk about?! It’s the empty […]

Happy Fathers’ Day

I want to wish everyone a happy Fathers’ Day. In celebration of today’s day I want to teach you all the sign for daddy. I hope you all have a wonderful day today. Laura Berg Founder & President My Smart Hands, ‘educating young minds’ www.mysmarthands.com

The MOM TRIBE

For Heather The one major thing I’ve felt since becoming a mom is that we MOMS are a tight knit group of people. Growing up sometimes women can be unkind to one another, I’m not sure why this is and it’s sad. But I found when you become a mom […]

Learn Your ASL ABCs!

My daughter, Fireese, loved learning the ASL ABCs at a very early age. She could identify the sign language letters before she could the written ones. This made it much easier for her to learn to identify the written ones because I could prompt her by showing her the ASL […]

Sign me some “EAT”

It’s funny how you sometimes come across things in life that you are so excited to discover exist. You would have no idea to necessarily search for it because you never thought such a great idea would exist. I always loved this idea: “There are things you know you don’t […]

3 Million and Counting!

When my daughter was twelve months she was a signing machine. She knew over 30 signs and was picking more and more up everyday. We often ran into people who were always amazed to see this little baby signing. Most of them had heard of baby signing but few had […]

Get Up And DANCE!!

If your kids are anything like mine then they love to dance. I absolutely love the way toddlers dance! My son, now 17 months, loves to boogie to the music, he is always asking for the CD player to be turned on so he and his sister can dance. We […]

Consistency IS the Key!

When signing with your baby the most important thing is to be consistent. I’ve had parents say to me, “I’ve been signing with my baby for months and have had no response.” I ask how often they are signing and they tell me, “I try to sign a bunch of […]

Yummy with a capital Y!

Tonight was girls cooking night in my house and my daughter decided we should make ‘Cauliflower Pie’ for dinner. This is a yummy dish that my mom used to make! Then she says to me, “Mom, we should teach Hartford (her little brother) the sign for ‘cauliflower’… how do you […]