2.5 year old Reading/ baby sign language graduate!

[lilpaxson]

Very, very impressive!

[CHULADTB]

LUV IT! =) GOD BLESS HER

[multitastepie]

SOMEONES EXITED!!!

[ellykatze]

the end <3 :D fireese is so cuuuuuuute

[Nycnetwork]

I was wondering where you got these magnets. I think you mentioned or listed it in another video, but I can't find it anywhere now! Thanks!

[SmartHandsCA]

@Nycnetwork They are from LeapFrog. You can get them at Toys'R'Us or Target or most stores that sell LeapFrog. It's called WordWammer.

[Nycnetwork]

My daughter absolutely loves this video! She's 17 months; we don't have ABC magnets, but she will take random fridge magnets and "copy" this video by saying "B E O D" or any other random combination of letters then shout "YAY!!!" and try to jump. Its too cute! She just loves watching Fireese videos :) Thanks!

[SmartHandsCA]

@Nycnetwork that is so cute! Thanks for sharing this with me :) It warms my heart!

[juliusengel]

I was that old, and I learned how to read.

[xxLythexx]

I have a question but I hope it doesn't come off as offensive... I am simply puzzled by how quickly she has learned how to spell. Does sign language help them learn quicker? And if so, how?

[SmartHandsCA]

@xxLythexx great question. I think it helps because they store that information in a different part of a brain vs oral language. She knew the ASL ABCs long before the written one. She was interested in spelling using her hand vs writing. It's fun for her so I think in that way it did help!

[fafofafa]

soooooooo cute :)

[allofyousuck11]

I got a feeling like she's going to be a valedictorian

[lolalove111213]

wow...i am VERY impressed!

[WickedFabala]

LOL she says the sound for each letter, puts it together, then jumps and screams it!!!!!!! :D

[Strangefruithanging]

Wow! I'm impressed! 

[OldScarsNewHate]

Mutti did this with me when I was little- this girl reminds me so much of myself! (I started reading books at three) So adorable!

[Massivethighs]

I like when she spells or reads a word, she yells it, so cute! :)

[imhighneedpie]

I love your videos! <3

[kitkatbar1800]

WOW. i have never seen a smarter baby before. wow. and she is so beautifull!

[ASHLEyTISDALe0101]

she is so stinkin cute!!!



[thefoolofapril]

Yay! Finally, someone who is not anti-intellectual with their children. Most people I see don't even read to their kids, let alone do this. I'm studying a teaching degree, and I think this is fantastic :-) preparing the mind for learning... good work.

[TinyProdigies]

This is a great video! Your little girl is so smart and so cute :) What are you doing with her now? My little boy has been reading, writing, and doing math since 2. He's almost 4 and about to go to school but he is so much more advanced than other preschoolers now.

[TinyProdigies]

This is a great video! Your little girl is so smart and so cute :)

[ekstravagantee]

In the United States, and maybe other countries, they do not usually teach the alphabet to be pronounced like this, and I would love it if they did. My child is learning two languages right now and one language is with 36 letters in the alphabet, and it's helping him learn amazingly well and pronounce better when older.

GREAT CHILD! Also, the most important thing is to learn to be a well rounded individual first and foremost.

[pinkshamrock18]

@ekstravagantee i'm from the US and that is how we learned to pronounce the alphabet and my mom is a teacher and that's how she teaches it.

[bubble19smile]

super sweet:D

[OMGaVlogger]

so proud of her!!!

[RedNoir]

You can see that this girl loves to learn! What a blessing :)

[katherineXchi]

i couldn't even spell my own name till i was like six....

[ace1122tw]

I dont want kids but if this makes me think that is a bad idea. So adorable!

[pheobebuffay]

great job!!!

[qwertyisauiop]

I am only 12, and already know I will do everything you did with my child. (Hopefully daughter, but a boy is fine too.) Thank you for the inspiration! How old was she when you started?

[VAndyMrs]

very impressive

[WonderManon1]

How cool ! , and she''s so young.

omg. it''s really amazing.

[jerichopasaoa]

i made a word cute

[cplmatty]

cute!!!!



[Spotify49]

so cute :D

[fruitteller]

you are an excellent mom!!!!!! 

[sese4everbffs]

HOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWw



[dimaaiixD]

She is the cutest human being I ever saw!! Awwww. :">

[KRAZY2BME]

Soooo Cute!!!

[MissEyelashWisher]

Awwww!! Shes so cute and so so smart! :)

[ChickityChoice]

How good is her reading now? Has it helped her vocabulary/communication a lot?

[SmartHandsCA]

@ChickityChoice yes, it helped her vocabulary a lot. If you check out the other videos of her you will see that she is reading at a grade 3 level in Kindergarten.

[gracel11]

brilliant kid :)

[MegaPianoLove]

"i made a word! i made a word!" so adorable & so smart! :)

[jahedur]

She has the best teacher - a great mom!

[marshtart01]

I love how at 3:01 she had to go back and straighten the letters out and then had to say it again. So~ cute! So~ smart!

[darkj3am]

you must be a teacher.. a really good teacher...

[xtnahx436]

you are a great and supportive parent. What a clever little girl.

[myKarla101]

Smarrrrrrrrrtttttttt really smart

[melissahieatt]

Amazing! what a competent and confident little learner :-)

[marilynmanson60]

she is SO smart! She's going to be EXTREMELY intelligent when she gets older! But by then, she would probably lean 3 languages at the age of 4! :)

[shanedawsonluver13]

OMG at the end she was sooooooooo adorable " I made a word!" she is sooooooooo cute!!!!

[jonny10000000]

Just amazing... Very very bright girl

[MrMarata]

wonderful baby...What website do I go to so that i can also tech my child the same.

[erentheca]

This is awesome, well done.

[sino0o]

sooo sooo sweeet and smarttttt :D

I MADE A WORLD!!! I MADE A WORLD!!! XD love her

[ilysmblah]

@sino0o world?

[julianasantos16]

woow.. very impressive.. (:

[iBleedConfidence]

LOL [Bat] "Where's the aah?" I love how she gets so excited xD Aw she made a word :D This is precious. Good work taking the time out to teach your kid :c Some parents just lay it all on the school system and wonder why things go wrong. Beautiful daughter too :3

[ramnaras25]

Very smart kid, incredible.. and you have done a great job with the teaching. God bless you and your family. Cheers. 

[jared8289]

aamazing!!! really God's blessing!!!! hope she will continue making others smile bec of her positive attitude,...and making her parents proud..

[dandiego0]

you are an incredible mom!!!cheers for you and obviously cheers for youre daughter!!!! :D

[TinkerBell5421]

i made a word i made a word!! haha

[ssoo1982]

My lady , I want say : you are good mother i never seen , thank you for take care your sweet child , and god bless you . thanks again

[rubymermaid1]

i could read when i was 2 but she is quite a bright kid!

[TheFunLuvnCRIMINAL]

OMG so so so cute. Making me want to be a daddy someday.

[maxtran2005]

OMG please don't grow, just stay cuteeee like this foreverrrrrrrr!!! (*_~)

[stroomie9]

how cute

[Chealder]

I guess you're really proud of her! She's so cute!

[pemie2]

let's salute those parents///nice job

[XoKimiXo]

can yu teach my nephew?? lol

[TheMissyfiona]

Amazing! You are amazing parent and your baby is precious! Very very good foundation! I hope I can also do this to my children.:))

[cRaZyChIcK268200]

cute "I made a word! I made a word!" =)

[duranmp4]

Congratulations. She is precious.

You are doing an amazing job.

[teela32]

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your videos! I started teaching my baby signs at 6 months and she learned about 5 or 6 different ones, but I wasn't consistent with it because I started showing her YBCR dvds. She is 11 months now and still remembers her signs and I believe incorporating a sign dvd will help her get on the path of reading early. Seeing your daughter spell out words has convinced me to try both. Keep up the good work and I will continue to follow you and your child!

[Tarzbabe]

Luv her wee jumps!! Such a bright little girl!

[moffo27]

cute :)

[BelaFarinRodBlume]

She's so cute and it's so wonderful that she's learned all this with fun and without pressure! i'm sure she's gonna lead a very successfull life :)

[wearefireworks]

I am seriously amazed at how much you've invested in and taught your daughter. If only more people parented like that.

[maddflower]

she is soo cute and smart how old is she now???? i love the way she get all exicted when she gets it right and starts jumping up and down!! i made a word a made a word sooo cute!!! u have a smart one on your hands!!!

[SmartHandsCA]

@maddflower thanks! She is now 4 and a half and she definitely is a little smarty... but of course I'm her mommy and will always think she is a little smarty!

[MsJadedangel]

@SmartHandsCA lol of course you opinion may seem bias, but, she is very smart, and just as cute as a button. That is amazing what she can do at her age. I've always wanted to learn sign language. It wuld be great in the medicla field, for patients who are deaf, and have trouble communicating with the medical team.

[suzy69974]

She's so cute !

:D

[phanigaadu]

lol..after watchin all these cute videos on youtube.... I am like..shud get marry now and hav kids ASAP.........

[BelialDiogo]

awesome :D will be hard when it is 13+

[KaiFan4Ever]

Wow, she went from this to a 4th grade reading level in just 2 years. Great parenting!

[jillysocutee]

shes a beautiful baby god bless her

[swanmo]

this made me smile..she's so clever :) i'm studying speech pathology and i'm so used to seeing 2/3 year olds that aren't even speaking yet..she's way at the other end of the spectrum!! well done with the signing

[kwippo]

left handed...?

[SmartHandsCA]

@kwippo She's right handed but when she was little she would switch back and forth.

[kellyberger1969]

i LOVED the end!! she is so cute! "I MADE A WORD! i made a word!" XD

[sutadebastos]

my son is even amazing...one day when he was just 4 months old, he was weeping and wanted milk and i was just next to him doing the formula when i heard him uttering the word "bubbubububububiiiitzzzz" from then on i got worried and i had watch his feeding time!

[MobiusCoin]

Mom of the century! This little girl is going to be a genius!

[SmartHandsCA]

@schococookie94 No, but someone else thought she said something in German.

[schococookie94]

@SmartHandsCA oh ithought it too..

well....keep it up....

its really great :)

[iSpastard]

@SmartHandsCA yes she said at 1:13 "was war das" on english what was that ;)

[Mordredh]

@schococookie94

1:13 Mom speaks a little german english mix, 1:19 the little girl too.

[schococookie94]

Oh so cute...they speak german 2.....thats great...

[31MrAnderson]

how soon can i start. i want my baby to learn sign as well. how did you learn?

[SmartHandsCA]

@31MrAnderson You can start anytime really. I started with my kids when they were both 4 months old. If you look at my channel you will see a link to an article I wrote on how to sign with your baby. It's like teaching a child how to wave bye-bye. It's really easy!

[sheccyd]

You are doing a wonderful Job with that girl = ) Congrats!

How did you teach her at that young age the sound of the alphabets and how to read? does the sign language have something to do with this? I have a 3 and a 4 year old, but they have very very poor concentration and listening skills is there any tip to improve that?

Thanks!

[SmartHandsCA]

@sheccyd Thank you :-)

Yes, sign language had a big part in this. I would sing and sign the ABCs then she would do it. I then would put the sounds to the hand shapes for the manual alphabet and then we'd play games when we were out or in a restaurant and needed to occupy time. For example, I'd hold up the letter C and she'd make the sound for C then I'd hold up A and then T and she'd sound all the letters out. Then I'd move them faster C-A-T and she'd sound them out. She loved this game!

[momversation]

What a wonderful time with the baby!

[mahbhaby27]

how cute!!!

[keywolf23]

thats cute

[sirdavallen3]

Amazing kid and the end was so cute!

[hannanailaassad1]

how cute

[hannanailaassad1]

she is so cute

[mindorobeachgirl]

wow.  great job!

[MissAshleyAsthenia]

Wow this is amazing! I thought of signing with my son but never put forth a great effort. I'm kind of bummed that I didn't. He's 18 months now... I guess it's never too late to start. He knows "more" and "all done" but that's all I ever really taught him. This is amazing. Is there a website where you can look at and learn basic signs?

[SmartHandsCA]

@MissAshleyAsthenia it is never too late! It is especially helpful when they start talking and you aren't sure what they are saying, you can ask them the sign and then correct the way they say the word. I have a free online dictionary for you to use. Just click on the link in my channel or google My Smart Hands.

[killintymm]

its a pleasant change to see kids learning. among all the parents who send their 3 year olds to beauty paegeants with heavy make up or let them be without teaching them anything

[kingbassa2010]

nice job you really should post her improvements

[MontessoriMission]

To Candaceshae: Check out Montessori. We teach reading similarly, i.e., without signing. I personally am incorporating signing in the classroom. This has helped children immensely.

[Disn3yNia]

most 2 year olds i see are talking but not as cler ur 2 year old will have a bright future bless you keep dong what your doing

[batchie7]

She's amazing. You've done great! We have been trying to teach our 8month baby sign for several weeks now. We are looking forward to him signing after seeing Firesse.

[macnt462]

I love to see children excited about learning! I am working toward being able to do this same type of teaching with my own daughter and it's encouraging to see others that have accomplished it. You do an awesome job with your little girl!

[webgeek198]

she is so smart even wen she was a baby!!!

[Candaceshae]

Have you considered selling your idea to schools? As a student at a University majoring in special education, I could see this being extremely helpful for my future students. I and other special education teachers, as I'm sure regular education as well, would love to use something like this is my/our classroom. You do a great job! And your little girl is too cute!

[SmartHandsCA]

@Candaceshae thanks for your comment. I actually lecture to teacher eduction programs on using sign language to promote literacy in our schools. I'm hoping to come out with some curriculum they could also use soon. Thanks for the motivation!

[foliefolie]

I MADE A WORD!!!!  soooo cute!

[IloveLadygaga9000]

@foliefolie hhahahahahahahahhahahahahahaha­hahahahhahahahahahah!!!!

[Jejkan95]

I was even more precocious, I could write at the age of 2

[WoodGrainMayne]

sooooooooooo cute ^.^

[blackbluevam14]

SHE IS SO ADORABLE!

[littlemsstupid]

Hi. I'm from Hong Kong. English is not our first language but I'm teaching my daughters phonics. They are almost three years old. They have learned all the letter sounds but I have no idea how to teach them to build words and to figure out how to pronounce the words until we saw your video. It's truly inspirational. My daughters will say, yeah, let's play with the letters, just like the girl! I would really like to thank you and hope you will post more videos. We can really learn from you.

[SmartHandsCA]

@littlemsstupid thanks, I appreciate your comment and am glad my videos have helped!

[haynsoljahchic]

This is GrEAT! I LOVE HOW she gets excited when she spells the word..makes me excited too.. very cute.. Good job with her. And all this was from teaching her how to sign first?

[SmartHandsCA]

@haynsoljahchic Yes! She learned the ASL alphabet first and then was able to transfer her understanding from that to written letters.

[ChloeMostard]

my goodness. shes amazing!

[jec0221]

Wow she is super smart my 3 yr old niece kan pronounce words n full sentences but she cans spell them out... Gd job

[we23s]

as things on youtube sometimes go, i'm sure you get the occasional off-hand comment, but i hope you ignore them all! i think you're doing a wonderful job. it's obvious that she is enjoying herself, and the quality time that you're spending together will remain in her memory always. good luck in all her endeavors.

[SmartHandsCA]

@we23s Thanks!! :-)

[mobstabanks]

amazing

[superbigfatloser]

amazing how she sounds out each word and then can say it all together!! she's going to be a successful girl when she grows up

[XxEmoxNarutoxX]

She will be the smartest kid in school if you keep doing this she reads better then my 9 year old sister

[OZZY2461]

damn this girl is smart i bet she is going to be one of those girls in high school that people wanna sit next to every time they take a test

[celerbration12345678]

she's so cute. you are so lucky to have such a cute and smart baby.

[natiyasams]

That's amazing!

[oopsieboo]

you dont see many kids these days using alphabet fridge magnets like this. my godkids has had at least 4 sets of alphabet fridge magnets, they just get pulled off the fridge and thrown on to the floor, lol. definately a technique i would love to try when i am older with my own kids :)

[Playasong112]

I love that you're spending so much time bonding with her and helping her learn. She is adorable!

[ThisIsFreakinMetal]

that was very amazing!!!:D what's her name? and she's so cute:D

[SmartHandsCA]

@ThisIsFreakinMetal Thanks :-) Her name is Fireese (pronounced Fur-eese)

[olaciti]

This is good video. And the child is having lots of fun. It's like a game for her. I bought those letters in Wal-mart for $1 and I plan to teach my 19 month son. Please help me learn how to do this!!!

[kgon5170]

awsome,,, good job... both of you. ;)

[Keldun]

I love your videos. :) They're a true inspiration. My fiancee and I just found out she's pregnant and as a result of your videos, I'll be teaching her to read. write, and sign early on in life. I hope you continue making videos and inspiring many others. :)

[Anything269]

Aww thats really good i wish her luck bless her

[ysjo0712]

a bit to enthusiastic dont u think lol

[tacam31]

she is so smart

[CorruptedNight]

aren't u making ur child losing hes childnes ?

[SmartHandsCA]

@CorruptedNight no not at all. My daughter loved playing spelling games, it is fun to her. I don't sit her down and quiz her or force her to do things. If it wasn't fun for her we wouldn't do it. Kids love to learn, they are so fascinated with picking up new things. Doesn't she seem to be having fun?!

[runescaperocks8]

so cute

[georgegrasser]

Very bright child! Don't forget chess lessons! You will have a little Grandmaster by age 12!

[boxman91210]

2.5 lol

[vipkasukabe]

smart girl! Shes lucky to have a mom like you!

[outrannaruto2008]

aww so cute and funny when she screams the words lol this made me smile :)

[kingtz]

This video made me smile and chuckle. :)

Very smart little girl!

[tinaro82]

im a little stressed out. my daughter is 2years and 4months. i try teaching her as much as i can. i work full time. she is not so advanced as your little daughter. all i wish is for my daughter to speak. she says words here and there but not as much as others her age do. should i worry? will she learn on her own time? how do i teach to to talk back and repsond to me or ask me something.?

[SmartHandsCA]

@tinaro82 Have you asked her doctor about her verbal development? If her doctor is concerned he or she may recommend you have her assessed with a speech pathologist. It's something to look into.

[jaegerhund]

Cute kid. And what a good momma ! Good job.

[LaughNowCryLater323]

shes cool i wish i wouldve had parents like her who cared instead of abanding me =( oh well. thats pretty cool tho

[coolcat960]

so young and she can already read! It's a miracle.

[cocohot88]

i hav a daughter and i really need to noe how u train her...

[SmartHandsCA]

@cocohot88 I started by teaching her the ASL (American Sign Language) alphabet. Then we would put sounds (the phonics) to the letters then I introduced the written letters and we would put together short words like C-A-T sounding them out as we went along.

[bhh1987]

I love this little girl, way-to-go.

[ihumppies]

Woaaah i think ima need tuturoring from her!

[ihumppies]

Woaaah i think ima need tuturoring from her!

[CharlieTheCherry]

I only didn't cry because I cryed a lot today. This is amazing. Be proud of her and b proud of yourself for being such a great mother =) x.

[timmytapeworm13]

that's really cool

[shery86emily]

super baby

[Naynay622]

aww! she's adorable AND smart! :)

[s0151170]

oooouuuuuuuu.......u made me cry baby......u r so...cute...may u live long..

[DeAnDiStRuCtAbLe]

smart hahah I made a word..I made a word!

[DeAnDiStRuCtAbLe]

smart

[chongvang916]

smart kid there

[HIKAJO]

Thats so Cute .. amazing and Touching .. I am 15 but I am looking forward to see my kids and be proud of them ..

I just want to say to fireese .. YES YOU MADE A WORD today and I hope that you make a article in the future ..

[MrSmrkec]

She's amazing... Well done parents. x)