Sign With Your Baby Complete Learning Kit - Joseph Garcia

Crazy! Babies signing at 10 months! Impossible! That was my first thought when several years ago while Richard & Judy tried to convince their viewers that you could teach your baby to talk before its 1st birthday. They had commandeered the help of some unsuspecting parents who were using this revolutionary system with their babies. The parent?s were totally convinced and they had brought their little darling?s along to demonstrate to the nation. Sound?s good. One problem. The baby?s were united in their indifference to the whole affair and resolutely refused to produce a single sign. Or even the sign of a sign. I dismissed it out of hand. Over ...  Read the complete review

No more baby tears! - Advantages: Your child can communicate with you, You can understand your child better, earlier, Great start to mum and baby relationship - Disadvantages: You have to learn the system, too!

Whatever the reason you want to start using Joseph Garcia's Sign With Your Baby kit, you'll be so glad you did when you watch non-signing toddlers throw a screaming tantrum while your own child calmly signs to you what he wants. I wanted to use sign language with my baby daughter because I suspected that her spoken language would be delayed, signing would fill the gap between her knowing what she wanted and actually being able to tell me in words. At that time, I couldn't find anything in the UK but a good friend sent over Garcia's book and reference guide from the US, I got the complete kit when it was lauched in the UK in March 2000. ...  Read the complete review

The first time I heard about Signing with babies was in March this year, in the programme "Tonight" with Trevor McDonald. I got so fascinated by it, that I could not wait to start using signs with my own son who was then just 10 months old. I received the UK Complete Learning Kit which includes a training video, The book, The quick reference guide and a British Sign Language reference book.(£49.95) The books are great to read, no complicated language but simple and straight forward so everyone can understand. The signs are easy to learn and the training video is a great help. Especially because it shows you how the babies sign back, so you ...  Read the complete review