From time to time I write in this blog about the challenges parents face when they upset the family dynamics by adding another baby...

One of the best gifts a professor can receive is when a student decides to follow in his or her footsteps. I was incredibly luck...

Thanksgiving is a wonderful time for us to focus on the many things for which we should be grateful—from obvious things like food to...

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...

If you want to feel proud of what you already know about how to raise an emotionally healthy child, compare your beliefs to those o...

I recently posted in this blog a description of an experimental study I did at UC Davis to see if toddlers would use a sign to indic...

Ask a parent what signs they are most anxious for their children to learn and the answer is likely to be EAT, DRINK, MORE, and ...

Just last week I gave a webinar for our Baby Signs® Instructors that focused on the American Academy of Pediatrics’ position in reg...

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...

One of the questions that our Baby Signs® Instructors hear frequently from parents is how long a sign stays in a baby’s repertoire...

One of the most frequent questions our network of Baby Signs® Instructors hear when they give their Parent Workshops and Sign, Say ...

One of the most creative ways we use language is to point out similarities between things, similarities that strike us as especially...

There’s no doubt that a single sign—such as MORE , for example—conveys important information. But there’s also no denying that the ...

I’m on a kick about grandparents, probably because I’ve been able to spend lots of time with my nearing 4-years-old grandchildren. O...

I recently ran into an old friend who was out shopping with her 20-month-old granddaughter. I was delighted to hear that little Lane...

Last week I wrote about how children being raised in bilingual households benefit from having signs added to the mix. As I pointed...

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

One of my favorite personal Baby Signs® stories involves my son, Kai (who you see in the photo below with me way back in 1987 doing...

Ever hear someone say, “Oh, signing---that’s just parlor tricks for babies. You say a word and they produce the sign. How is that any ...