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Teaching Baby Sign-Language
By Elaine Currie
Have you ever considered a career teaching mothers how to use baby sign-language? If you haven’t heard about baby signing, it is a system of simple sign-language for use with hearing babies. It is not intended to replace speech: it is to help with the problem of communicating with babies while they are too young to be able to speak. Baby sign-language has been quite well known in the United States for some time and now that it has spread to the UK it is catching on in a big way.
I had seen articles and advertising on the Internet about baby sign-language but didn't think too much about it. To be honest, basically I dismissed the idea as some nonsensical passing fad for trendy young mothers. After all, mothers and babies have managed without sign-language up to now, haven’t they? This logic is not, of course, infallible: we managed without electricity and penicillin etc. but I wouldn't want to go back to those days, so I am open to change. A couple of things have caused me to revise my opinion of baby sign-language and I now appreciate how useful it can be and how much grief it can save both mothers and babies. I am definitely a convert!
My little granddaughter, at 17 months, was short on intelligible vocabulary but great on communicating. She communicated via a system of gestures and noises. One of my favourites, because it looked so funny when performed by such a small person was an enigmatic shrug accompanied by an upturned palms gesture which meant "no idea". Unfortunately the day arrived when our amateur sign-language let us down. The baby wanted something but no amount of pointing and squeaking on her part could convey to me exactly what was required. The only way I could hope to find out what she wanted was by offering things to her; I didn't know if she had a pain, wanted a drink or needed her best cuddly bunny. The harder I guessed and offered items, the more distressed she became. The end result was a miserable frustrated crying toddler and an unhappy guilt-ridden grandma. I was so upset, I felt like joining in with the tears.
Just after that my daughter told me about a little boy who attends the local toddler group. He had developed a habit of cruelly squeezing the family cat. When you are dealing with an under two year old who can't speak, it is hard to know whether the child is being deliberately spiteful or if he is simply being playful and doesn't understand that he is causing pain. So how should the parents deal with the problem? Most people would probably assume the child is innocent and wait until he is "old enough to understand" before trying to curb the behaviour. The fact that this little boy had been taught baby sign-language meant that he was able to tell his mother he knew he was hurting the cat. This enabled the mother to deal with the situation without delay by teaching the child that it is a bad thing to cause pain to other living creatures and to tell him there would be zero tolerance of such behaviour. This outcome impressed the other mothers (my daughter included) most of whom had never even heard of baby sign-language. The poor old cat was probably impressed as well.
Until then I had never given serious thought to baby sign-language but I realised that we already teach babies to communicate through an informal system of sign-language, so there's no reason why a proper system should seem like a strange idea. One thing that causes great distress to mothers is the inability to know for sure if a baby is in pain but a signing baby has the ability to convey this. That was the point that really convinced us that baby sign-language is a useful thing. It looks as if my next grandchild will have the benefit of learning baby signing, that makes me very happy and I'll be taking the lessons too.
Teaching mothers how to sign is a very worthwhile job as well as being fun and I believe there will be an increasing demand for teachers as word spreads about the benefits of being able to communicate in a meaningful way with even tiny tots. From being a complete sceptic, I am now a firm believer in the importance of baby sign-language and have found a source of baby sign-language teaching to add to my "mom specials" at my website. If you would like a job where you get to meet other moms, consider starting your own business as a baby sign-language instructor - family pets will bless you for it!
Does the idea of working with parents and babies interest you? This is your chance to start a home business offering a very rewarding service to families.
Due to recent media coverage, parents, and daycare providers are wanting to teach their babies and toddlers baby sign-language. This has created a demand for baby sign-language instructors.
With the Kindersigns Career Kit, you can learn the signs easily within a few hours and use the materials to market your new business.
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