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In this newly expanded edition, a renowned baby-signing expert provides more than 300 American Sign Language (ASL) signs, illustrated with the same clear, easy-to-understand photos and descriptions. Since 2004, Baby Sign Language Basics has introduced hundreds of thousands of parents and caregivers around the globe to the miracle of signing with their babies—and left them wanting more! Baby-specific signing techniques, songs, and games are also included to make learning fun and to quickly open up two-way communication. Parents will meet real signing families and learn how to make sign language a part of their everyday interactions with their children. Also included is a video signing dictionary featuring all the signs from the book. Just point and click, and see the sign you want to learn come alive! This is a must-have for all parents, grandparents, and anyone else who spends time with preverbal children. After all, what parent or caregiver doesn’t want to know what their baby is trying to tell them? Now includes streaming video, additional tips, advice, and updated resources!
When it comes to signing with babies, the secret to success is to make signing fun! Using signs in playful and engaging ways gets babies’ attention and stimulates their interest in signing like nothing else. In Sign, Sing, and Play, busy parents will find imaginative ways to include signing naturally throughout the day with activities that can be used at home and on the go! Whether it’s time for a story, a diaper change, or a ride in the car, parents will find dozens of ideas for including signing in ways that motivate baby to sign back quickly and keep signing exciting for parent and child. Sign, Sing, and Play picks up where Baby Sign Language Basics left off and is a must-read for parents, grandparents, and child-care providers who sign or are considering signing with their babies and toddlers.
"Finally, songs that are really perfect to sign and sing to!":— Barbara Granoff, "Sign2Me" presenter andco-creator of the award-winning Sign-A-Lot DVD series Signing along with songs is one of the most effective things you can do to encourage your baby to try new signs. It’s a fun way to introduce new concepts, and music is a great memory aid for language learning! If your baby could talk, he or she would tell you that singing and signing go "hand in hand"! This activity guide and CD program brings you 14 original and traditional signing songs, perfect for the littlest signers, with clear illustrations. Music by award-winning singer/songwriter Susan Z takes you and your little one on a magical journey to a land of storytime, teddy bears, tea parties, and fun-filled daily routines.
When it comes to signing with babies, the secret to success is to make signing fun! Using signs in playful and engaging ways gets babies’ attention and stimulates their interest in signing like nothing else. In Sign, Sing, and Play, busy parents will find imaginative ways to include signing naturally throughout the day with activities that can be used at home and on the go!Whether it’s time for a story, a diaper change, or a ride in the car, parents will find dozens of ideas for including signing in ways that motivate baby to sign back quickly and keep signing exciting for parent and child.Sign, Sing, and Play picks up where Baby Sign Language Basics left off and is a must-read for parents, grandparents, and child-care providers who sign or are considering signing with their babies and toddlers.
In this newly expanded edition, a renowned baby-signing expert provides more than 300 American Sign Language (ASL) signs, illustrated with the same clear, easy-to-understand photos and descriptions. Since 2004, Baby Sign Language Basics has introduced hundreds of thousands of parents and caregivers around the globe to the miracle of signing with their babies—and left them wanting more! Baby-specific signing techniques, songs, and games are also included to make learning fun and to quickly open up two-way communication. Parents will meet real signing families and learn how to make sign language a part of their everyday interactions with their children. Also included is a video signing dictionary featuring all the signs from the book. Just point and click, and see the sign you want to learn come alive! This is a must-have for all parents, grandparents, and anyone else who spends time with preverbal children. After all, what parent or caregiver doesn’t want to know what their baby is trying to tell them? Now includes streaming video, additional tips, advice, and updated resources!
It doesn’t matter if someone is a celebrity, a “civilian,” or a single mother or father . . . parenting is a topic that brings up common feelings in just about everyone: love, trepidation, angst, tenderness, frustration, wonderment, sadness, delight, awe, and more. In this book, well-known moms and dads share their varied experiences in the world of parenting. Sometimes humorous, often heartbreaking, always thoughtful, and occasionally embarrassing, the accounts presented here are truly entertaining and relatable. This is the perfect book for all of you parents—whether your kids are toddlers, teens, young adults, or baby boomers. So open it up to any page . . . and prepare to laugh, cry, nod your head in agreement, and ache with empathy and joy! Including parenting tips from Ben Affleck, Gwyneth Paltrow, Madonna, Adam Sandler, Denzel Washington, Hugh Jackman, Connie Chung, Antonio Banderas, Sarah Jessica Parker... and many more!
Lulu and the Ant: A Message of Love Lulu and the Dark: Conquering Fears Lulu and Willy the Duck: Learning Mirror Work These three stories were written to help today’s child grow up with a strong sense of self-esteem and courage. As adults, we sometimes forget that children have many more issues to deal with than we did when we were their age. They’re constantly being put into the position of making choices, and are steadily being barraged with news about the critical state of the world. How children handle these issues is a direct reflection of how they truly feel about themselves. The more a child loves and respects him- or herself, the easier it will be to make the right choice.
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When girlfriends Stephanie Triplett and Sara Ellington realized that they were both pregnant and their babies were due just weeks apart, they began e-mailing each other constantly. Throughout their individual journeys, both women discovered many aspects of pregnancy, childbirth, and especially motherhood that no one ever seemed to talk about. Stephanie and Sara had both read every book on these subjects they could find so why weren’t they prepared for the roller-coaster ride they were about to embark on? Why hadn’t anyone ever given then the real truth about being a Mommy before?! The Mommy Chronicles is a warm, candid, and sometimes irreverent view into the lives and emotions of these two new mothers. In intimate and often hilarious detail, the authors share their own diverse-and universal-experiences as they progress from being pregnant…to being parents. Listen in on their conversations as they laugh, cry, rage, and celebrate. Labor and delivery, postpartum depression, career choices, daycare dilemmas, husbands who don't get it - it's all here, presented in an entertaining, easy-to-read format.