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From: wayneryder
Date: Thu Dec 12, 2002 9:54am
Subject: Re: URLs et al
I can personally vouch for Baby-Signing. We bought a book (title
forgotten, sorry) when our baby was born, and found it invaluable. We
taught Hannah the signs for milk, drink, food, nappy etc. Took all
the guesswork out of why she was agitated. A lot of the crying seems
to be frustration, they can't do anything about their hunger or
discomfort, and they can't tell anyone about it.
It helps verbal development, too; at 28 months she's now got a wider
vocabulary than her cousin of 36 months.
If you have or are expecting a baby, I can't recommend it enough.
>
> The comments on "baby signs" (sign language for babies) is good, it
> demonstrates how to use multiple parts of the brain to catalog
vocabulary,
> although they don't seem to put it in those terms anywhere (that
I've
> read.) For example 'flap arms and say "BIRD"' or 'pant and say
> "DOG"'. One comment that made me laugh was the response to "is
this any
> good for babies of 20 months old", the answer is "its good for
children of
> ages". Why can't I, a grown up (apparently), use physical anchors
to
> assist in memory techniques? There's nothing like writing down the
lyrics
> of a song to help you recall them, a quick glimpe of the page and
they all
> come flooding back (very handy on stage.)
>
> Anyway back to the video encoding...
>
> BlackCheese
