Well, I might be touching upon a very sensitive topic, especially for those of you who're parents. I'm not one, yet, so I must say I find it most amusing when parents make their little ones, yeah really tiny, little ones, to do things to show off how talented the little one is at say 8.5 months!
Only recently I came across such a situation. The mom asked her 11-month-old baby, a very cute kid, to "say hello" and "bye-bye." What she really meant was for him to wave, may be. The kid kept clapping and smiling all the while when his mother kept on asking him to "say" goodbye. I thought it was quite funny at how hard she was trying, only to be disappointed.
In hindsight, this is not the first time I've witnessed such an act. It's happened before, but I never really thought about it so much as to share my thoughts on a blog post. But considering how common this is, why not!
Do babies really understand what we adults say in our grown-up language? They sure respond with their goos and gaas, so you may think they do. But there's no way of knowing the science behind it. This is one fascinating, thought-provoking communication, isn't it? Well it does leave you thinking "what did that baby say?" Are you a parent who's been there, done that?
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