Customer Reviews

Baby Fingers: I'm Feeling . . .: Teaching Your Baby to Sign

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Although I concur with other reviewers on the value of baby signing (my 12 months old daughter began signing "light" at 9 months and now has a host of signs and several words in her repetoire), this book isn't the one to use. I was looking forward to having a book that would help me teach my daughter how to express her emotions. However, this book merely contains pictures of kids performing the signs. There are no visual cues as to the meanings of the signs. I recommend the baby signs series instead. The book demonstrates the signs as well as offering pictures that help the child generalize the sign to situations right away.

This is a WONDERFUL book and an excellent place to begin signing with your baby. Another wonderful book is "I Want..." also by Lora Heller. Lora is an expert in signing as well as children. I signed with my baby from about 9 months, and he picked it right up. He is now a very advanced talker at 2.5 years of age. He loved signing, and so did I - it gave us a way to communicate before he could talk. I knew what he wanted and what he was feeling/thinking so much more often with signs! I can't say enough good things about it and about Lora Heller. The book has very clear pictures and directions for how to make the signs. Your child will like the actual pictures of other youngsters.

The Baby Fingers: Teaching Your Baby to Sign board book series is just spectacular. I love this one, I'm Feeling. The expressions on the babies faces are so precious! My toddler loves these board books and I love that he's learning American Sign Language---not some made up gestures.

This book, and the I Want book are great for find excellent photos of the signs you need to teach your baby how to ask for the things they need, or to tell you what they're feeling. I've seen it work; kids who learn sign language are much less frustrated and more verbal than their peers. It changes their whole personality for the better. They learn the meaning of language as a way to identify their needs. This book has cute pictures of children in which your baby will be interested, and that will help teach you the signs to use with your own child. The chunky board book format is great for throwing in a diaper bag. I really like these two books (I'm Feeling... and I Want...) a lot. I can't think of any improvements.

My son is almost two and we recently got this book out and started reading it again. He had seen it when he was seven months old. Now, he loves looking at the children and does all the signs. He will point at the children in the book and say things like "baby happy" or "baby hurt." He constantly asks for "feel book"

It has really helped him communicate his feelings. The other day he was crying and I said, "Are you sad?" He signed "sad" and said "I sad," stopped crying and was able to go back to playing knowing that I understood how he felt. Often children have trouble putting their feelings into words, especially when they get wound up, but communicating non-verbally works in these situations.

I am a proficient signer, but this book has good explanations so that parents without signing experience can correctly demonstrate the signs for their child. The signs are all proper American Sign Language.

I was looking for a book that had signs for feelings in it. My daughter is 17 months and uses many signs. She has been having issues with biting and hitting when she is frustrated. I have used this book to dialogue with her about her feelings and it helps me teach her what to sign for certain emotions. This has helped her express herself much better rather than acting out. I do wish it had more emotions (such as frustrated and disappointed) and didn't need to include physical feelings such as cold and hot. Great tool overall. She also enjoys looking at the kids signing.

This book has about 20 concepts ilustrated with pics of cute babies but with poor explanations. We find some of the indications not clear, confusing or lacking information. (The same than with other Helle'rs books on the subjetc)
We do like the babie's pics but the idea was to get information not baby pics.
I would recommend much more to bet any of the "Monta Z Briant" books about baby signs, she even has some with DVDs with explanations that are great!

Very disappointed in this product. We have used a lot of sign language books before my daughter was verbal, and they were great with descriptions and pictures. Now that she is verbal, we were looking for a book that would help her communicate the feelings that she could not quite label yet. However, this book has terrible pictures and descriptions. We used it once and haven't looked at it sinse. Don't waste your money.