When did your dc nod and shake his/her head (for yes & no?)

[Judegirl]

I didn't want to hijack Holli's thread...but wow, Mari shakes her head no at 11 months! Riordan (15 months) doesn't shake her head for no, or nod for yes (nor does she indicate "yes" in any other way.) Just wondering whether most kids do this long before now?

Thanks!
Jude

[holliam]

LOL, Jude, I can't even take credit for teaching it. I can't believe she knows how. We hardly say it and now she shakes her head every time we do, even if we say no to each other or to the cats. DH says we must shake our heads subconsciously whenever we do say it, and she does love to copy us.

I swear this kid is knocking me off my feet. I tried so hard to not have any expectations so pretty much everything she does is a surprise.

She just does stuff totally out of the blue. She isn't a progressive learner; she just literally wakes up one morning doing/saying things.

Holli

[DebbieJ]

My 20 mo still doesn't get it right. He often says "YES!" (something he mastered just recently) while vigorously shaking his head no (from side to side).

LOL!

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[aliceinwonderland]

Erik has shaken his head vigorously for "no" for a couple of months now.

But I find development fascinating: he does this and expresses himself so well with no words/signs, but Rory stings together sentences with signs, right? Erik reached a peak with his signing and then regressed, refusing to use signs he had known for months (milk, etc).

[californiagirl]

Opal started saying no and shaking her head at about the same time, right around 14 months. Her idea of an enthusiastic "yes" is starting to cry for the thing she wants. Her idea of an unenthusiastic "yes" is staring at you patiently. I swear, I've heard her say "ess" 2 or three times, sign "yes" twice, and nod her head once, but 99.99% of the time -- 100% if you really care about the answer -- she does nothing positive about yes, and every so often says "No" just for the sake of it, even when she means yes.

[tina-t]

Ds started shaking his head for "no" at about 16 mos. He started nodding his head for yes at 18 mos., but stopped doing that when he says "ya" at 24 mos.

[kath68]

Charlie has been saying "NO" and shaking his head for months now, my guess is since he was 13 months (the past few months are a blur).

That sounds great, but he really gets no and yes mixed up. He says "Da" for yes sometimes, but mostly he says "NO" for yes. Telling the difference between no/yes and no/no is really about seeing what his eyebrows are doing, how vigorously he shakes his head, and how loud he says it.

Sounds terrible, but count your blessings that Riordan doesn't say NO yet. It is Charlie's most annoying word (and favorite) in his vocabulary!

[Wife_and_mommy]

DD has been shaking her head yes/no appropriately for about the last 10 days. It's VERY handy because I can ask her questions and she'll answer me! She will shake her head "no" for food and then open her mouth for me to give her more but other than that she's pretty on the ball with it.

I haven't actively taught her this so I'm thinking as I talk with her I've been doing unconsciously as well. I was just debating today if I should be doing the signs instead of the head shaking.....decisions decisions.... Do you have an opinion on that?


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[kath68]

Just in the past couple of days I have tried to add in the sign for yes, to see if it would help DS communicate when he means yes instead of no. He has the no part down, so I am less concerned about that sing.

He has done the yes sign a couple of times now, so maybe it works. We'll have to see. I don't think it can hurt to give him a couple different ways of communicating the same idea. I try to model all of the forms of yes at the same time. Head nod, yes, "da", and the sign.

[jamsmu]

DS didn't shake his head no until about 2 months ago (21 months)- and he's only done it once or twice. He's never nodded. That said, he's been saying yes and no for over a year, so that may be why.

When he was under one, I remember nodding and shaking a lot while talking... didn't amount to anything, though.

[mudder17]

Unfortunately, Kaya was shaking her head "no" even earlier. :) Fortunately, it was her way of saying she didn't want anymore food, so we didn't mind that she did that. She didn't nod yes (still doesn't) and wouldn't move her head that way until more recently. She still doesn't indicate yes with a head nod, but will instead clap her hands. I think she was doing that around 11 months as well.

But that's okay that Rory doesn't indicate "No". You should enjoy it while you can! :P Maybe it's because she has such a large vocabulary she doesn't feel the need to indicate "yes" or "no" because she can just sign what she wants?

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[KrisM]

DS nodded Yes on Sunday for the first time. He hasn't done it since though.

[Wife_and_mommy]

Okay. You convinced me. I've been signing "no touch" to off-limit things but don't know the sign for "yes" so I'm off to search my signing web site. DD hasn't caught on to the "no" sign so we'll see how yes goes.


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[kath68]

The yes sign is: make a fist, and make it nod like it is saying yes.

[holliam]

Okay, you all had me paranoid that I was making this up. I tested her again tonight and she did it again. I've realized too that she is shaking her head when she is done with her food now too. So, she is definitely assigning meaning to it.

Holli

[brittone2]

Sadly I'm having trouble recalling right now but I'm 95% sure that Logan has been shaking his head no since about 13 months or so, maybe a bit earlier? I don't think he fully grasped it though until about 2 months ago, so about 15 or 16 months of age. At that point I think he really understood "no" has power...it is an option as an answer to a question, kwim? He occassionally says "no no" but generally just shakes his head no. He started this early on to signal he was finished eating or that he didn't want to eat (has never been a big solids eater).

He will very rarely nod for yes, and this is usually in conjunction with raised eyebrows and closed eyes for some reason :P Most of the time his "yes" is expressed by his failure to say no to something when I ask him. For example, if I say, "Logan, do you want an apple?" If he doesn't want it he would shake his head no. If he wants the apple, he would say his word for apple.

I think Rory is just so impressive w/ her signing she probably doesn't need to use it all that often to communicate. Enjoy the lack of "no" while you can :)