Baby Meets World: Suck, Smile, Touch, Toddle: A Journey Through Infancy
Like adults, babies had systematic ideas about other people, the world, and language, but their ideas were different from ours and often very peculiar. Babies seemed to think, for example, that objects just stopped existing when they were hidden and that there were no boundaries between themselves and others.
Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, • The Scientist In The Crib: Minds, Brains, And How Children Learn
study published in 2014 by Yale psychologists Annie Wertz and Karen Wynn indicated that six-month-old babies are born with an evolved learning mechanism for identifying which plants can be eaten. This ability was present ‘prior to any formalized instruction, and mirrors the ancestrally recurrent problem humans faced with respect to identifying edib
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The baby is utterly and exquisitely present to you, every feeling that crosses that darling little face transparent to you! The idea that the competent mother must structure the days hydraulically, with machine-like and predictable routines, arises directly out of last century’s scientific paradigms. Twenty-first century scientific models embrace c
... See morePamela Douglas • The Discontented Little Baby Book
man the crazy thing about babies is that like, some people would think that reading a baby a book about farm animals is teaching them about farm animals, but really it’s teaching them about the concept of a book and how there’s new information on each page of a single object, but really, beyond that,it’s teaching them how language works, and beyond... See more
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Left to their own devices, parents and caregivers learn to read cues by pattern recognition. Each baby’s system of communication is unique, and meaningful only in the context of the events in her little world. You contextualise your baby’s communications, and build up a picture over time, experimenting with your responses in a sensible way so that
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