Teaching Your Child Sign Language - Episode 6
Have you thought of teaching sign language to your baby? Every wonder if it is beneficial? There are several benefits associated with teaching your child sign language. Your baby can remember a sign as young as six to seven months old, but don't hesitate to start as soon as they're born. Isn't that amazing? Some benefits associated with teaching your baby sign language is that it enables your child to communicate effectively leading to lower frustration levels; in turn, improving child-parenting bonding. Additionally, it hastens their speech development and helps your child remember words due to the involvement of multiple sensory groups. Moreover, there is a 12 point increase in IQ to name a few. I know! You're blown away huh? We were too. And now we can vouch for the benefits as we are first hand seeing the benefits uncover.
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►00:21 - What does Yuntaku Time Mean?
►00:55. - Recent Happenings - Raised Bed Veggie Garden
►04:18 - TOPIC: The Benefits of Teaching Sign Language to your Baby
►04:50. - List of Benefits of Teaching Sign Language to your Baby
►06:03. - What kind of Benefits we see in our Daughter and ourselves.
►08:40 - Q&A: How do you Teach Sign Language to our Baby? Any Modification made?
►11:52 - Q&A: Why did you decide to Teach our Daughter Sign Language?
►13:12 - Which Signs have we Taught our Daughter.
QUESTION: Do you Sign Language with your Little One?
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Podcast Transcription
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Akko 0:00
She was teaching her daughter's sign language. And I was like, okay, and this is probably when I was like mid 20s maybe. And I started to look up like the benefits of sign language for a child and learn that it was so beneficial. And I just knew that I'm going to teach my child sign language it's Yuntaku Time with Akko and Tamo.
Tamo 0:20
What does Yuntaku mean? It's an Okinawan word from the islands of Okinawa, which means Chit Chat, we want to invite you to our kitchen table and include you in our chit chat to explore new ways of thinking, to welcome different perspectives.
Akko 0:39
And we want to share ideas and how to love yourself. Love your partner, and shower your children with love.
Tamo 0:46
Today's topic is benefits of teaching sign language to your baby. But before we get started, let's talk about our recent happenings. And our recent happenings is that we've been building a raised bed veggie garden may have been really fun and let's share what we've been growing.
Akko 1:07
Yeah, we've been growing a lot of stuff. We are growing a bitter melon, this type of gourd called hichy ma not sure what it's called an English and then we have planted purple sweet potato and some chives, some Japanese veggies, some cucumbers, parsley, tomato, kale, okra, okra, yeah, okra chard.
Tamo 1:30
And what else gonna be looking forward to strawberry? We're gonna Yeah, strawberries, strawberries.
Akko 1:34
So yeah, we're looking forward to all of them. And yeah, they're growing. So it's kind of cool. You know, you're just watching it every day and you're like, wow, it's, it's growing.
Tamo 1:44
It's like a fun family project. Right? Because we're always out there kind of checking up on the veggies. Our daughter gets to join us and Yes, she's been a little rough on the leaves. he boasted like grab on to rip it apart. So met the teacher. Hey, you know you Gentle, gentle Be gentle. Yeah. And even within all the things that we've been growing something that we are very excited about his Goya.
Akko 2:09
Yes. So that's a bitter melon,
Tamo 2:10
it's a Okinawan superfood. And again, it's called Goya. It has so many health properties, right benefits, and we were just researching it and I was blown away by the amount of benefits there are from the vitamins to minerals to you know, you had also mentioned it's good for diabetes.
Akko 2:28
Yeah. So actually lowers your blood sugar levels, there is this chemical substance called torontonian. And that is what increases the metabolism of glucose in the body. And that's what lowers blood sugar levels for those people that have diabetes or pre diabetic or those that are really being careful as far as their sugar intake.
Tamo 2:49
Yeah. And my uncle, he was saying that he was able to reverse a lot of his thinking was pre diabetes by drinking Goya juice. So what he would do is take Goya and juice it and then drink it straight and it's a difficult drink to drink just because Goya is very bitter. Very bad. Just even being able to eat it. It took me 23 years just to like
Akko 3:13
I mean, I used to just avoid it like the plague. And now I just I love it. Now we're growing it Right, exactly.
Tamo 3:22
I don't think our younger selves would even believe that we would. Yeah. Yeah. And also, it's known to have high vitamin B, C, E, and K. VO lakes. And yeah, it's, I think it's also great for weight loss.
Akko 3:38
Yes. Yes. So a lot of people that want to lose weight better get some go. Yeah. In your system. Yeah. So
Tamo 3:43
there are any maybe Asian markets, Asian markets around where you live? Look out for a Goya or a bitter belly. Yes. And there are different types of bitter melon, and come on to our YouTube channel. And check it out because we'll be sharing some of the raised bed garden videos. So you come come visit a search again for
Akko 4:04
your time.
Tamo 4:06
So that's been our recent happenings in our household. And it's it's just been really exciting. Every day. We'd like a come outside. Look.
Akko 4:13
It's fun to look at, you know? Yeah.
Tamo 4:15
Cool. All
Akko 4:16
right. Let's go.
Tamo 4:17
Yeah. So the topic of the day we wanted to talk about was benefits of teaching sign language to your baby. And I have to say, Aqua has been doing a fantastic job. She really brought up the idea of teaching sign language to our daughter. And I've been really happy that you've done the research and started teaching her and so so we did some research and came across this website called educational play care calm, and it lists many different benefits of teaching sign language to your baby, and we wanted to share those points with you. So he could share that.
Akko 4:50
Yeah, so let's go down the list. So the first one is that it gives your baby a 12 point IQ point advantage next accelerated speech and mo Development enables children to communicate effectively, it lowers frustration levels, it improves child parent bonding, it reinforces the learning of educational concepts such as ABCs, animals and other specific themes.
Tamo 5:15
And it also helps children remember words, because there's muscle memory involved, and the more senses involved in learning, the greater memory retention that child will have. It also improves attentiveness to social gestures of others, as well as themselves, larger speaking vocabulary and ability to form longer sentences and earlier reading and larger reading vocabulary and better grades in school. Wow,
Akko 5:41
that's a lot of benefits. Yeah, I
Tamo 5:43
have to say I'm very
Akko 5:45
impressed and amazed at the same time,
Tamo 5:48
how much benefits there are? And of course, those are the benefits. Educational playcare. Calm emphasizes, and for us, we don't know if there's a 12 point advantage, IQ or better grades in school, just because our daughter's still so young. Yes. But we can point out a few of them and say, definitely, we've seen this in our
Akko 6:08
experience. Yeah. So they pointed out that it enables children to communicate effectively, I completely agree with that. She is able to express or communicate what she needs what she wants. So she wants to eat if you want to sleep if she wants water. If she wants milk, she will sign it to us. And it's just so much easier to know what what she wants exactly, rather than guessing.
Tamo 6:33
Yeah, yeah, definitely. Definitely. And another one they mentioned was lowers frustration lovers. And that definitely, when you can communicate your needs to your parents, of course, it's going to lower frustration levels. But the interesting part is it also lowers the frustration levels for us because we know what she wants. Exactly right. So if she's just going right, right, right. We don't know what that means.
Akko 6:56
Yeah, it's like, oh, do you want to be changed? Are you hungry? Do you want water? I mean, we don't know. But with sign language, she's able to communicate like, I want this exactly.
Tamo 7:06
And so I can definitely vouch for that. It lowers frustration levels for both child and parent.
Akko 7:13
Yeah. And therefore improving child parent bonding. Definitely. And I think they did our name that also.
Tamo 7:21
Yeah, they did. That was the next one, which was improved child parents bonding. Yeah, when you can communicate. Of course, bonding is a lot easier, right? That's definitely been the case for us. And the next one that I feel that we've been experiencing is it helps children remember words, because there is muscle memory involved. And because the our daughter is using, not only her her mind, but she's using her body to sign things, it adds another layer of senses, and it allows her to use more of her brain. Right now she's in a very physical stage. And so it's perfect that she's using sign to communicate with
Akko 7:57
us. Yeah, yeah, actually, yeah, that's a very good point. Yeah, because she is in a very physical stage. So all in all, we are very supportive of sign language. And we think it really does help with the communicating
Tamo 8:09
with your child at early stage, right. And especially because her most likely her vocal cords are not developed enough to communicate with us with her voice, other than crying and making certain sounds that it's really unintelligible for us right now. Although she's getting to the point, she's starting to be able to say a few words to
Akko 8:29
Yeah, yeah, I'll get back. Yeah.
Tamo 8:31
So I've got you been real champion of teaching sign language to our daughter. And a couple of questions that I have is, how have you been teaching? For the people who are listening? What has worked for you? What have you tried? Um,
Akko 8:45
so first of all, I have to look up what I want to teach her. So probably the first thing that you want to teach her is milk. So you just kind of keep doing it while you say it. So milk is kind of like a squeezing gesture. So you do the squeezing gesture, while you're saying milk. And you just repeat it to her as much as possible whenever you want to communicate milk to her. And so she kind of starts to understand when to use it, and how to use so she she's looking at you and she's hearing what it is. So you're using both senses. So then she starts to understand, oh, okay, and then you use it properly. And you don't just like say, Oh, this is milk, this is milk. You use it when you need to use it so that she understands when to use it. So does that make sense? Yeah.
Tamo 9:30
And do you have the milk in your hands when you're doing milk? Do you show it to her?
Akko 9:33
Yes, yes. So I'll show it to her. And with the other hand, I'll say milk cow, squeeze my hand. You're saying? Yes, I'll sign. I'll sign milk. So yeah. So we do that. whatever else you want to teach her like change every single time we're changing
Tamo 9:47
a diaper. You do the change sign and just repeatedly do it and they just get it one day they just start doing it themselves. And another thing is I think there are kind of core signs that you want your baby to know. Example changing the diapers or change and milk? And maybe I'm hungry. Those are kind of more fundamental. Maybe I'm sleepy, that would be cool too. Yeah.
Tamo 10:10
But some other ones, maybe it might be more customed to your family, maybe your family eats a certain type of food that your baby likes. Maybe you can teach them that sign. And although Yes, you can look up YouTube, and find all the signs how to do them. But you can also be flexible with how you do it, maybe you can create a sign that's a little easier for your child.
Akko 10:32
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Like so for example, there's a lot of sign language that kind of that signs towards your mouth. And so she might get a pretty confused because eat is to your mouth is a lot more thing, I think water is kind of similar, but you just make a W when you kind of press it against your chin, but to a child, that might be pretty difficult. So we use the sign for drink for water, just so that there's a bigger distinction between water like the real water sign and, and eat. And that's why we use drink sign instead of the real water sign just so that she's clear. And we're clear of what she wants. So you know, there's Oh, you know, you can always cater to your family, like you were saying. And it's interesting,
Tamo 11:14
right now, what I've been noticing is he actually understands water as water. So she would do the water sign for when she's thirsty, or when she wants water in the tub. Or if she wants the faucet outside to be turned on, she would use water. And so that was something that was pretty exciting to see. For me, she understands water as water. And it's not always I want to drink water. But the sign again is the same. So as a parent, you have to see that and understand what she or he is wanting.
Akko 11:44
So yeah, I think overall, it really helps in learning how she communicates to and learning what she wants.
Tamo 11:51
And how about even learning about teaching same to our daughter.
Akko 11:57
So the question is why I decided to teach her sign language,
Tamo 12:00
right? How did you even know that this for me? I just had no clue.
Akko 12:05
So there was a friend, she was teaching her daughter's sign language. And I was like, okay, and this is probably when I was like mid 20s maybe. And I started to look up like the benefits of sign language for a child and learn that it was so beneficial. And I just knew that I'm going to teach my child sign language. And that always stuck with me. And so when we had our daughter that was like, Oh, you know what I'm going to we're going to teach her no matter what. And so that's why we're teaching her. Yeah. Yeah. Because I knew the benefits.
Tamo 12:35
Yeah, I think the benefits so outweigh all the effort that's required to teach and even teaching. It wasn't it hasn't been too bad, right?
Akko 12:43
No, not at all. I mean, it's kind of fun for me right now. I'm trying to teach her like rooms. And then we're teaching her animals. And it's really interesting, like certain sign language for animals are so interesting to me. But it's fun. It's fun for me, too.
Tamo 12:56
That's great. That's great. Yeah, the more that she can communicate with us, and actually in turn, we can communicate more with her. And then once her kind of vocal cords develop a lot more and she can start seeing words then that brings up new fun. Yeah.
Akko 13:10
Yeah, sure.
Tamo 13:12
So yeah, let's share what we've taught her so far. I know you've taught her milk. We've taught her hungry. I'm hungry. Eat water. Water change. diaper chain.
Akko 13:23
Yeah. diaper change. Sleep. Yeah. Sleep Cat Dog pacifier. Yeah. Well, she kind of actually did it herself. It was so interesting. And I looked it up and it was it was spot on. I was like, Wow, that's really cool.
Tamo 13:36
She's teaching us
Akko 13:37
yeah. Oh, I see. This girl loves ice. Oh, and the hot. Oh, yes. Hot and then cold. Blow dry your hair when she's done with her food. I'm done. Yeah, she know. Thursday. I'm done. More.
Tamo 13:51
More. She loves that.
Akko 13:53
She loves that. Yeah. More. Oh, kiss kiss.
Tamo 13:56
Yeah. Kiss Kiss.
Akko 13:57
Yeah.
Tamo 13:58
Bye. Bye.
Akko 13:58
Hi, thank you, please potty pee poop. And just mind that she's you know, she hasn't picked up on all the sign languages down to 80%. Yeah, maybe 80%. Yeah. So she picked up on 80% of these. Maybe a little more. But for those that she hasn't picked up yet, we still continually do it. And
Tamo 14:18
you know, honestly, I think the ones that she hasn't picked up, for example, pee and poo. It's because I don't think she knows that yet. I don't think she understands the functioning area. Oh, I
Akko 14:30
see. So that makes sense. Yeah.
Tamo 14:31
Because everything else. She knows. She knows. So like, she knows that she wants to know, she knows that she wants water. She knows she when she's hungry. And she can really demand those things. Yeah. But for the things that she doesn't know. I don't think she's that aware of it yet. So for example, diaper change. We've been teaching her since the beginning. Like really the beginning.
Akko 14:52
Yeah.
Tamo 14:53
Oh, yeah. And she's starting to finally do it. But you know, she might I don't think she's too old. aware of what's happening down there. So yeah, that makes sense. Even if she, you know, has a full diaper. She's totally fine. Yeah,
Akko 15:06
she's okay with it. So Oh, yeah. Yeah. Doesn't bug her one bit.
Tamo 15:12
But and as she matures, I think she'll start to get more understanding of what's happening and then short request a diaper change. I need to go pee or just bathroom party. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Akko 15:25
So yeah, that's just to name a good bit that we remember right now.
Tamo 15:29
So for those parents out there, do you siling which with your little one, and how has your experience been?
Akko 15:36
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Tamo 15:41
Till next time, take care. Bye