Mom Uses Sign Language to Translate Toddler's Babbling to Deaf Dad — the Internet Is Cracking Up

A mom decided to sign to her deaf husband all of the things that their toddler says in a car ride, and people are cracking up at the repetitive nature of her one-sided sign conversation with the child.

The video, which was uploaded to the Our Signed World (@oursignedworld) TikTok account, featured a recording of the family on a car ride, where she demonstrated to her husband just how talkative their toddler is.

"STORY TIME: My husband is deaf. He cannot hear all the sounds our toddler makes in the car."

She continued, "He asked my why I was feeling overstimulated. I told him he wouldn't fully understand my experience as a hearing person," she writes in a caption as she signs to her husband.

In the back of the car, their baby can be heard saying "Papa G" over and over again.

"But he wanted me to try, so I just started signing everything she said," the TikToker writes over a recording of her making the same sign gesture over and over again.

She detailed his reaction to seeing the repetitive sign language motions recurring over and over again with her hands in a caption for the video as she continues to rattle off the "Papa G" motion over and over again to demonstrate to her husband about how overstimulating repetitive noises can be.

"He just laughed, he wasn’t fazed at all. Now, if she was tapping him, or flickering the lights, over and over again, that’d be a different story, I think he’d understand what I was feeling in that moment," she wrote.

The TikToker added in the video that their daughter "said this straight for three minutes" before she transitioned to a new catchphrase: "Baba ba ba," which she also repeated over and over again.

All of the repetitive signing she was doing so her husband wouldn't miss out on what their daughter was saying started to take its toll: "My hands are exhausted!" she wrote.

"She continues more," she writes as her daughter keeps up the baby babble, before the clip cuts to her daughter calling out to her: "Mom."

"What?"

"Mom"

"What?"

"Mom"

They go back and forth, until the TikToker asks her baby, "Madison, what my love?"

"Mom?" the baby asks again.

"Madison, what do you need love?"

"I don't need anything."

Multiple TikTokers who saw the video said that they were tickled pink by the clip and the mom's decision to sign out her toddler's babbling.

"The idea of putting toddler babble into sign language is hilarious. 10/10," one person penned.

For other folks, they related to the toddler's line of questioning at the end as they hoped to get a response from their mom ... but not for any particular end: "'I don’t need anything.' I swear my son just says 'mama' sometimes to check and make sure I’ll still respond no matter what."

Another person quipped: "My ex husband is not deaf but he definitely acted like he was."

And then there was another user on the app who shared an anecdote from their friend who found a way to prevent their children from constantly talking all of the time.

"I heard a wise friend tell her children something once and I grabbed on to it: 'you don’t need to fill the air with noise because it’s silent, so say that in your head, not out loud,'" they wrote.

The Every Mom looked into the phenomenon of chatty kids, speaking with child behavioral expert Theresa Bertuzzi who said of garrulous tykes: "Generally, children begin speaking around 12-16 months and, by 18 months, have a small vocabulary and can respond or repeat when prompted. If your child is advancing through these steps or is very talkative by 2 years old, this is a very positive sign for their language development."

Bertuzzi also went on to say that a child's penchant for constantly talking could also have to do with the following: "If you notice your child rambles a lot about different topics, it is likely their preferred mechanism for thought processing, and it can also be a self-soothing tool."

Still, there are parents who've mentioned they have difficulty in dealing with their children constantly talking with them all of the time, like in this Kidspot post: "I feel like a horrible parent for thinking this, but I don't even want to be around her sometimes. I'd love to get up and drink my coffee in the kitchen while she has her breakfast, but I can't handle it some days," one mom wrote.

In the same post, other parents with talkative kids mentioned that they try to keep in mind that their child is just happy to share their thoughts and experiences with them and that they should always keep that in mind when they're interacting with the little ones.

What do you think? Have you ever had to deal with a kid who loves talking, constantly asking questions, and filling the air up with noise? Have you found a way to have fun with that / handle in a healthy manner? Or do you love to talk yourself so it all just works out?