Year: 2013

Spoiled or Secure? Meeting baby’s needs, without going overboard

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Spoiled or Secure?  How to meet your baby’s needs – without going overboard By Colleen Brunetti, M.Ed. C.H.C. From the very first moment a baby is placed in the arms of a parent, the opening steps to establishing a sense of safety and security begins. As with all things parenting, there are many schools of thought on how you should best respond to your infant. However, as Susan Spieker, the director of the Center on Infant and Mental Health Development notes, “This is a dance back and forth. Every family works it out different…The key is to give babies a secure enough base …

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Sign of the Week – Doll

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It’s Tuesday… here’s your sign of the week! This Week’s Featured Sign: Doll Watch the Video (Click the Image Below to Play) Free QuickTime Player required [powerpress url=”http://359d6a6391b8c244d1d1-bd1f407c1e8743cc7c885af7afe617dd.r85.cf1.rackcdn.com/doll.mp4″ image=”http://c0445781.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/signoftheweek/signoftheweeklogo.jpg”] Download the Flashcard (click on the image. Print in color or black-and-white and adjust the print size according to your needs.) Signing Time Volume 2 – Playtime Signs Everyone loves playtime! Alex, Leah, and host Rachel Coleman teach ASL signs related to sharing, toys, manners, and more. Created for ages 1-8 but enjoyed by all! Available only on DVD. Close-Captioned. Approximate run time: 30 minutes, plus special features. Playtime Signs includes …

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Earth Day Sale! 5 Deals. 5 Hours Only.

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      Sale details: Offer starts Monday, April 22, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. MST and ends Monday, April 22, 2013 at 3:00 PM MST or until inventory is sold out. Limit 2 per product. Offer valid at signingtime.com only. Price can’t be applied to previous orders or other items. Not valid with other promotions, codes, or discounts.

Enter the Baby Signing Time Giveaway Contest!

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  Every week in April, we’re giving away a Baby Signing Time Early Communication System! Teaches baby’s first 100 words Songs and videos for easy learning Books, posters and flashcards, too! Also includes Potty Time system ENTER NOW A new contest starts each week! Lots of ways to enter Enter each week Valid in the US and CANADA only Winner from Week 1: Entry #3263 Amanda S.  

48 Hour Sale!

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USE COUPON CODE clean13 and get a $100 product set for just $59.99 We have a batch of DVDs and CDs in our warehouse that are perfectly good, but the cases aren’t the quality we expected. For the next 48 hours, you can save $40 on this complete set of Baby Signing Time products: Baby Signing Time Vol. 1 DVD and CD (packaged separately) Baby Signing Time Vol. 2 DVD and CD (packaged together) Baby Signing Time Vol. 3 DVD and CD (packaged together ) Baby Signing Time Vol. 4 DVD and CD (packaged together) Leah’s Farm DVD and ABC Signs DVD (packaged together) Hurry! Sale ends Thursday. …

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Talking to Children About Traumatic Events

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By Colleen Brunetti, M.Ed. The events in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15th began to feel too familiar. A few posts about “something” on Facebook, a few minutes later the picture beginning to become clear. Knowing within such a short time that real horror had happened. Spending the rest of the day purposely shielding my six year old son from all available live media even while I scrolled frantically on my phone for updates, and to check in with loved ones who might be in harms way. Everyone in our nation has had to grapple with …

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Sign of the Week – Juice

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It’s Tuesday… here’s your sign of the week! This Week’s Featured Sign: Juice Watch the Video (Click the Image Below to Play) Free QuickTime Player required [powerpress url=”http://359d6a6391b8c244d1d1-bd1f407c1e8743cc7c885af7afe617dd.r85.cf1.rackcdn.com/bstjuice.mp4″ image=”http://c0445781.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/signoftheweek/signoftheweeklogo.jpg”] Download the Flashcard (click on the image. The file contains a few color and black-and-white options. Print according to your needs.) This week’s sign comes from: Baby Signing Time Volume 4 – Let’s Be Friends Created specifically for babies as young as 3 months old up to 3 years, yet fun for the whole family! Features host Rachel Coleman, along with animated Baby Alex, Baby Leah, and Baby Hopkins. Baby Signing …

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Teaching Body Awareness in Your Classes

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By Colleen Brunetti, M.Ed. Sometimes it can be quite a challenge to teach our littlest clients. In fact, I often have people ask me, “How do you manage to teach babies and toddlers classes? Do they even pay attention?” Well… yes and no! Right now I have a class of all one year olds. I don’t get 45 minutes of eye contact and interaction from them… not by a long shot! What I do get, however, is a chance to model for the parents and caregivers ways to invite their babies to explore the world, while integrating all the signs …

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Proud To Be Me! Teaching Body Awareness Using Signing Time

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By Colleen Brunetti, M.Ed. Children have a lot of natural curiosity about the world around them. From the question of why the dog has a tail, to how the car works, to those sometimes hard to field questions about the difference between boys and girls, there seems to be an endless amount of things in our world for our curious little ones to ask about and explore. Perhaps one of the most important set of questions to address are those related to bodies. One only needs to look as far as the nearest billboard or the TV commercial currently on …

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I Got My Baby Back Because of Sign Language

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by Tammy R., West Valley City, Utah Every mother loves watching her child grow and learn new things. As a first-time mom I was no different from all the others. With every day it seemed my baby boy, Benjamin, was just blossoming as an individual. It seemed like one day he was holding his head up on his own and the next he was walking. I had gotten a book called First Signs when Ben was just a baby and tried to use it often. I had heard that a child as young as six months could communicate through sign …

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