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I loved this book! I thought it was a great introduction to signing with your baby. It covers how and why you should do it and includes pretty detailed illustrations and descriptions for the most common signs a parent would want to teach their child.
I still think it's easier to learn how to sign by watching someone do it than seeing a book illustration, though.
Also, I thought it was unusual that the author recommends starting signing at birth but only starting with 5 or 6 signs. Her logic is that parents talk their child from infancy even though babies can't yet respond. That makes sense, but why only teach 5 or 6 signs? I don't know of any parent that would only use 5 or 6 spoken words with their child, so why should it be any different with signing?
I still think it's easier to learn how to sign by watching someone do it than seeing a book illustration, though.
Also, I thought it was unusual that the author recommends starting signing at birth but only starting with 5 or 6 signs. Her logic is that parents talk their child from infancy even though babies can't yet respond. That makes sense, but why only teach 5 or 6 signs? I don't know of any parent that would only use 5 or 6 spoken words with their child, so why should it be any different with signing?
