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Photini, your gummy bears are making me hungry!
Funny. Did you play with them before you ate them?
Don't tell me you never had like fake karate fights between the gummy bears!
Yeah, I have. But mostly my gummy bears love each other and give each other hugs and they also like to balance on each other's shoulders. These particular gummy bears got to be my models for a picture of the week challenge (the theme was 'diversity').![]()
No such thing as quiet around my house. Not since Allie discovered how to scream in this ear-piercing high pitched screech. She screams when she's happy. She screams when she's tired. She screams when she's hungry...she screams when she's full...you get the picture... =)
It's cute 'n all, but I'll be happy when she discovers a different noise to make.
And I have to share this pic with you guys, because I can't, in good conscience, keep all this cuteness to myself. It must be shared:
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How delightful, Erikson's first stage of psychosocial development: Trust vs. Mistrust. Ego strength: Hope or drive.
In this stage, you have to make the world safe and comfortable for the infant so it will trust the world to be safe and gratifying, thus leading to exploratory behavior. The mistrustful baby cannot count on kindness and compassion and kindness of others, so it protects itself by becoming withdrawn.![]()
First, that is precious. Graham crackers = awesome. (I think those are graham crackers anyways)
For my undergraduate I have to do a piece of original research. I want to use babies. I would love to set a baby in a room alone with a therapy trained specimen of Canis lupus familiaris or a sedated Canis lupus and see at what age they can recognize the difference between domesticated and non-domesticated animals and whether it correlates with any detectable neurological milestones.
I would like a sample of at least 50, randomly selected from the population of newborns, and randomly assigned to either wolf or dog as the experimental condition. This would give my experiment a high level of external validity. Of course, I will have to use multiple cohorts, probably under a month, 2 months, 4 months, 6 months and 1 year.
And of course there is no way I will be given the resources to pull this off. A trained wolf, suitable therapy dogs, mothers willing to trust me with putting their infants alone in a room with a strange animal, and imaging scans of an entire research sample of screaming babies for an undergraduate isn't about to happen. Ah well.
Just curious, what are some peoples' opinions on the Death to the World zine?
DEATH TO THE WORLD
Anyone subscribe?