Hello! Happy New Year!

My name's Katie Mayne, mum to Lucy and Harry and the founder of TinyTalk Baby Signing Classes.

Winner-

'Highly Commended Special Award'

Top Finalist-

Inspirational Business Mum of the Year 2007

I received this award 2 years ago now but I'm still thrilled by it! The competition was organised by Prowess (the UK association of organisations and individuals who support women to start and grow businesses) and sponsored by Yellow Pages (which also strongly supports business mums through their website www.bizmums.co.uk).

I am delighted that I won this award as I feel that

TinyTalk really does support other mums- through both our Classes and our Teaching Opportunity.

TinyTalk Classes help families understand and experience the amazing benefits of baby signing. We teach families how to develop their babies' early speech, language and literacy skills. Our half an hour social and support time in each class is also very important! Please read our 'what clients say' to see some lovely comments from happy families!

I also know that our Teaching Opportunity allows mums to run their own successful businesses, as part of a very strong team whilst, most importantly, very much being there for their children too. They are our priority after all! Please click on the 'become a teacher' button to see what the TinyTalk teachers think!

Anyway, how did TinyTalk baby signing classes actually start?

I set up TinyTalk baby signing after I taught my son Harry to baby sign when he was just 7 months old. It worked like magic - he was signing to me when he wanted to play or read a book, when he was hungry, and even when he wanted to go to sleep.

As I had been already fully certified in sign language (I'm a Primary School Teacher as well as a Teacher of the Deaf) - I made up my mind to start baby signing classes for other parents around my area. And so TinyTalk baby signing classes were born!

We'd love you to baby sign with us!

There are now TinyTalk baby signing classes all over the UK (as well as Ireland, United Arab Emirates and TinySign in Australia and New Zealand)- in fact, over 300 at our last count!

Attend one, and you and your baby will be able to baby sign to each other using simple baby signs. You will also sing fun songs, and your baby will have time to play with toys, whilst you get together with other parents over coffee and  biscuits!

As a mother of two pre-schoolers myself, I know exactly how much life can feel like a juggling act. (It's amazing, isn't it, just how long it can take to get out of the house some days?) That’s why we try to offer both a ‘pre-booked’ and a flexible booking system for baby signing classes when we can. We also only charge per family- not per child. If you've got twins you've already got double trouble (!) so come and enjoy teaching both your babies to sign, without paying double the price for it.

Read on to find out all the other reasons why TinyTalk's baby signing classes are so appropriate for young families.

And lastly, if you fancy joining the TinyTalk or TinySign baby signing teacher teams, we'd love to hear from you...!

All the best for an amazing 2009!

Kind regards,