Tips for Bonding With Your Baby

While watching the DVD, A World of Signs, here are some suggestions for enhancing learning and bonding with your baby:

• Use a non-breakable mirror as a tool for signing together. Hold the mirror and sign and say the words at the same time. A mirror helps babies learn how to focus, track images, explore the wonderful things a face can do, and provides a novel approach to opening non-verbal lines of communication between you and your child. Your baby will become fascinated by the face and actions in the mirror, opening up world of discovery.


• Sing or hum songs to your baby while both of you are engaging in your everyday activities, which will promote interaction and bonding. Music is an integral part of the World of Signs DVD as these melodies enhance your baby's cognitive and motor skill development. Bonding thorough music creates special and lifelong connections.


• Use a globe to connect the music to the world through multicultural perspectives. For older children, such as your baby's siblings, talk about the globe, geography and the 6 countries that this DVD introduces. This creates a great opportunity for family bonding and interaction. As you may see, the program actually grows with your child, as it exposes your child to the music of other countries, the flavor and folk styles of multicultural perspectives, and challenges older children to begin to think about the other nations and cultures that form our world.