Reading Your Baby's Mind - Newsweek Society - MSNBC.com

Reading Your Baby's Mind - Newsweek Society - MSNBC.com


Well this was an intresting article but really not mind blowing, I think
because my wife and I are observant people we catch alot of things
going on with our baby and her attemps to comunicate. I can imagine though that there are lots of parents that just don't or won't or can not
watch/listen/guess what is going on with their child and think that the kid just is crying for no reason and that its out to get them instead of
working very hard to comunicate to them. Being a baby is not alot diffrnet than just beeing droped off naked in the middle of a forgin land and left to fend hopeing some nice village takes you in. Now you have all kinds of needs that have to be met but no idea what language is being spoken and they have no idea what the sounds comeing form you mean. You are then left with emotions that every one knows, happy,sad, anger, excited, scared etc.. and then what ever else you are able to slowly learn while with these people.

Maybe its the animator in me that lets me watch and understand what a small little gesture my young baby is doing over and over means that they want to get up or that face and noise they make every time they are still hungry but distracted and just need a break before going to eat agian... I feel like it has been fairly easy to understand what my baby is trying to say more often than not and I often forget that we don't or can't just sit and talk to each other.

As adults we all could work on being better listeners, to be actively involved in reading the body cues and actualy hear what the other person is trying to say and its no diffrent when it comes to talking or listen to kids. Be active and engaged when your with them, if they are 4 weeks or 15 years it does not matter, they need to be listened to and both of you will be better for it.