storytelling

[smittenbyu]

I know the day will come when I will ask for a few minutes of quiet time from D. But I am so curious what all stories D is telling us in her own language. She tells them with all hand gesturing and facial expressions to boot. Poor thing must be so frustrated that we don't understand! 

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[safety-valve.livejournal.com]

:D True, true. Daniel is using the same (or very similar) word for multiple things, which makes understanding him relatively difficult despite his vast vocabulary. I think almost half of his tantrums are caused by him being frustrated of us not understanding him.

[dakini-bones.livejournal.com]

Have you thought about using baby sign?
They can think words before they can actually say them...but they can sign them!
http://www.amazon.com/Baby-Sign-Language-Basics-Communication/dp/1401921590/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1333853717&sr=8-2

[echomyst.livejournal.com]

I know you already do some ASL / baby signs with D... are you adding more ASL vocab to her storytelling arsenal? We've stopped learning new signs now that T can talk, but there are times when we can see her frustration when we give her puzzled looks (esp difficult with our bi/multilingual kids -- harder to figure out their words if we don't know what language they're in!)

[smittenbyu]

I do teach her ASL still as she is not great with using words yet. I am more curious about the stories she is happily recounting. Sometimes I think she is telling us all the stuff she has seen. :)