DIRECTIONS: Mealtime signs. Use them at every meal.
MILK
Hold a fist up and squeeze it open and shut, the way you would milk a cow.
When: the obvious one, and often the very first sign a child gives back.
WATER
A W hand — three fingers up — taps the chin twice.
When: the cup that is not milk. Worth having both so they can choose.
DIRECTIONS: Two polite ones.
PLEASE
Flat hand circling on the chest.
When: attached to anything they are asking for. Goes well after more.
THANK YOU
Flat hand, fingertips at the chin, moved forward and down.
When: when they get it. You will make this one far more often than they do at first.
Please is a flat hand circling on the chest. Make a fist instead and it means sorry.