A guest article submitted to BabySignsDVD.com
People probably think that we are pretty strange. Then again, aren’t we all in our own way strange? Anyway, we met this family at one of the annual county fair events. They were about the same age as we were and they had a small baby that was not yet old enough to speak. And yet, we saw this baby clearly communicating with his parents.
Now you might be asking how that is even possible. I know that is what we thought. So, being intrigued, we approached them and began conversations. Well, it turns out that they had heard about this baby signing program that was available on DVD. And from the moment that the baby was born had been practicing sign language with him.
We asked the obvious (well it seemed obvious at the time – now it seems kind of ignorant) question regarding whether their child could hear and if that was why they had begun this type of education. And they replied that he could hear fine. We learned from them that there are many other reasons to learn sign language other than a hearing disability. They began because they had learned that with sign language they would be able to clearly communicate with their baby before he would be able to speak words. And we witnessed the truth in that.
You might be wondering how that makes us strange? Well, here we were thinking that this family was fascinating and they happened to mention that they often were considered “strange”. We laughed because we could certainly relate to that. We shared that our family has been labeled as strange for quite some time. Not because we were using sign language but because a few years back we started to completely change the way that we lived. We became organic.
As we got to know this family from the fair grounds that day, little did we know that it would be the beginning of a very long and lasting friendship. We ended up buying the baby signing course and they started buying organic kids clothes and changing toward a more organic lifestyle. And today we are still best friends.
