One of the true blessings that come with being human is the ability to laugh. Adults often don’t realize that children begin honin...

Here’s another detour from my traditional topic of baby sign language . Human infants come into the world looking for things to coun...

Here's a tip I've drawn from Baby Minds: Brain-Building Games Your Baby Will Love , the book Dr. Susan Goodwyn and I wro...

I recently ran into a mom who felt that nursery rhymes were too “old fashioned” for her child. That has motivated me to share a pi...

Did you ever wonder what goes on in your young baby’s adorable little head? I’ve never met a parent who hasn’t! Well, no one can...

Let's take a detour from our usual focus on baby sign language . Here’s an idea that helps take advantage of the recognition me...

Even if you are bored with a particular book, reading the same storybook many times over is really good for children. In the case ...

baby sign language Just last week in this blog I took a detour from talking about to discuss how important pretend play is to chil...

How many times can one person read the same storybook without going crazy? If you’re under age 5, the sky’s the limit. Or so it s...

Today I’m taking a break from talking about baby sign language to provide a simple tip to support the earliest steps in learning ...

Today, I'm taking a detour from baby sign language to share some fun information from the book I co-authored with Dr. Susan G...

Throughout my years as a researcher at UC Davis, and especially during the years Dr. Susan Goodwyn and I were working on our NIH-fun...

In this post I’m going to be bringing together a number of different themes (and not signing with babies , for a change) that are sa...

I’m taking a detour from talking about baby sign language to describe one of my favorite findings from the research literature on ...

Suggest to a teenager that he or she should wash Mom’s car and you can just imagine the reply, with pursed lips, eye-rolling, and he...

It was just a few years ago that all parents had to worry about was whether or not their young child was watching too much TV and...

In last week’s blog, I talked about how signing spurs language development by increasing a baby’s enjoyment of books. Part of the ...

Babies start remembering things from the day they are born—which way to turn my head to get fed or that Mom’s likely to come when I...

It's a very stormy Monday out here in "sunny" northern California, a situation that put me in mind of a tip to share with hous...

Most readers of this blog know me from my book Baby Signs with Dr. Susan Goodwyn. Fewer of you may know that the two of us have written tw...