This week's challenge for You Capture was to photograph letters. I thought of all sorts of cool ways to find letters in nature. You know, a tree that looks like an "f" and so on and so forth. I found this and decided to go a different way. I am a huge advocate of teaching your kids ASL (American Sign Language). I know baby signs are popular but I think the value of babies, toddlers, preschoolers learning real signs is huge. I've written about this before but when I see my girls actually able to have small conversations with deaf people (and witness the excitement of that person's face) it makes sense. Kids are sponges, they have the capacity to learn many languages. Why not sign? Knowing 20 signs is great and helps combat the whiny toddler phase when they are frustrated you don't understand them but it isn't necessary to stop there. My oldest daughter could sign hundreds. HUNDREDS of signs by the time she was 18 months.
