To Be a Baby � SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

To Be a Baby � SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Every day I am amazed at how much my own kids have learned and how they process the world and I think wow
that is amazing, even more so that we all used to be that way... then I find articles like this one and
It all comes together...it makes sense and matches my own intuition about my observations of learning and
understanding in my own kids.

Learning everything new from day one, our brains of course would be functioning on overdrive and in full
observation mode instead of " dumb kid" mode, makes me think even more now that life for "screen facing" kids
are having their time for mental play and exploration shut down, boxed in and programed to only take a certain kind of input...adds,
funny how A.D.D has the same word as ADD, advertising in it.. hmmm, funny and odd.

So I no longer find it strange that a child of 3 weeks old can learn and use 4 ASL (American sign language ) to talk with
their new parents and that they can have choice and free will and are born with a mind of who they are, as Parents and adults
become tour guides and less the "shapers of their minds". We have influence yes but only if we chose to be aware and involved and
allow our own mind to fall back in to a state of Play with our children do we get to live in the world with them.