Parents ask me all the time… What’s the first thing I should teach my baby to help with their behavior? My answer is always the same: teach them to communicate. So much of the behavior we label as “challenging”—especially in babies, comes from a lack of communication. When kids don’t know how to get their needs met, they show us in other ways. Loud ways. Hard ways. But when we teach them that communication works? You’ve already won half the battle. I started teaching Grace sign language around 7