Originally Posted by islandofapples
(I have gotten some very strange looks lately when someone asks me about baby signing and it comes up that we've done the ABC Signing Time DVD. I get the feeling that I'm coming off as a pushy and extremely delusional mom... but she memorized all the other DVDs and is now signing some of her ABCs. Should I just keep quiet? Probably. frown
lol! That one brought up memories. I recall being perplexed as to why people would want to teach 9 - 12 month old babies sign language in order to communicate with them b/c dds were both speaking and speaking well enough to hold simple conversations and get their points across by that age. (9-12 months seems to be an age where there are baby signing classes available locally to me.)

I guess that I straddle the line btwn you and your dh. I don't lie or totally downplay dds, but I generally didn't respond to things like the sign language stuff w/ "why would I do that, dd can speak?" There are people with whom I am completely open, but they are few and far btwn. I think that, especially as they get older (dd13 is a high schooler now), and you have a HG+ child, it is so obvious that the child is different and parents have gotten beyond the belief that if they just worked with their kids, they too would know their ABCs in sign language.

I don't pretend that dd13 isn't in high school or isn't taking the classes she is or doing the extracurriculars she is, but I also don't randomly walk up to people or co-workers and discuss it either unless "how are the kids liking their new schools?" is a topic that someone else brings up or I need to vent about something that is going poorly for dds.