2. I wonder how often babies try to *directly* manipulate the bodies of others while they're doing their initial explorations of movement
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3. it would make perfect sense that the concept the self as *separate* from the mother/caregivers would start by discovering the limits of that level of direct manipulation
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4. the ability to accommodate conflicting desires over varying time intervals is not preinstalled! and getting overwhelmed about this seems common
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5. dramatic increases in baby's capacity/skill are accompanied by periods of overwhelm, moodiness, poor sleep, and clinginess
it's not clear to me that this would cease to be at least somewhat true for older children and adults if they were learning that hard
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6. some parents find that the Wonder Weeks timeline fits their kid pretty well, but it never aligned with moonbot very well
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7. some parents report their kids displaying new skills suddenly ("they just stood up and walked at 14 months without practicing") but I've never seen this with moonbot
she has long periods of practice for incremental skills
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8. lots of very small things that you never think about and have been doing automatically since your earliest memories...are skills
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9. one example: when moonbot learned how to hold small pieces of food between her fingers, that didn't automatically come with the ability to put the food back between her fingers if she accidentally grabbed it in her palm
that skill is one she picked up this week!
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10. it's really incredible how almost nothing comes "preinstalled" when you're born
babies come out with a few reflexes to help with basic survival, familiarity w/the scent of their mother (I think) and a brain that is frantically trying to make sense of everything
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11. apparently they don't even have the ability to separate the different streams of sensory input
babies are on a wild, synesthetic, psychedelic trip
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yea reading this im like 'hm that feels like a time or two on drugs'