While sitting in his high-chair, your baby drops the spoon. You get up, pick it up from the floor, give it back to Baby – only for him to throw it away on purpose.
If this scene sounds familiar to you, you might wonder why he does that. Is he rebellious and tries to upset you on purpose? Does he have a really silly kind of humor? No and no. In fact, your baby is busy conducting his very first scientific experiments. His brain is starting to understand two important concepts.
The first one is called “Cause and Effect”: When i throw away the spoon, mom picks it up. When i do it again, she does it again. Oh, yay!
The second is called “Object permanence”: When i throw away the spoon, it disappears – No, it doesn’t, mom picks it up! It’s still there, even when i can’t see it!
To fully grasp these concepts, your baby needs to repeat those experiments again and again and again. That’s annoying to you – but try to smile at your little scientist!
Kids really are born scientists. Most things that babies and toddlers do are part of how they discover how the world works.
“Babies only cry if they are hungry, need changing, or need to be picked up”
Lies
Babies (and small children) also cry for reasons such as:
1. “I am tired and that makes me angry”
2. “I scared myself with a fart”
3. “You are the wrong parent”
4. “I ran into something with my face”
5. “I’m facing the opposite direction then the one I want to”
6. “I fell asleep in one place and woke up somewhere completely different”
7. “I am a very small person in a very big world”
8. “I got scared because YOU farted”
Babies have more then 3 states of being and sometimes you just have to hold them and bounce them gently while saying solemnly “yes it is very hard to be a baby” because frankly it is
you have to remember that when you’re that tiny… pretty much any bad thing that happens to you is LITERALLY the WORST thing that has ever happened in your life. they have no perspective. everything is awful. help them
Nah, nah, nah, Humans might turn out to be the Deathworlders or the Pack-Bond-To-Everything species, but I’ve got an idea what we’d be.
The thing I’ve heard most about Breath Of The Wild is that everyone wants to bang the shark guy.
The thing I’ve heard most about Mass Effect is that you can seduce all the aliens. (And that the ending for the third game was bad, I don’t know, I never played it.)
You see a picture of an alien,(or an elf or an orc or whatever) and there will be a comment somewhere of what said alien would be like in bed.
That’s our role in the universe- that no matter how strange the species, there is a human somewhere who will try to seduce them.
For everything that exists, there is:
A human who will try to bang it
A human who will try to pet it
A human who will try to hunt it (or possibly cook it)
the three human instincts: FIGHT, FRIEND, FUCK
Three aliens in a space!bar:
A1: “You’ve heard about humans, right?”
A2 & 3: “Oh sure. Yeah, of course.”
All three, simultaneously:
“They’ll fight all the time, even with inanimate objects.”
“They’ll bond with everything. Every. Thing. Even the fiercest, most dangerous creatures.”
“They fuck, like, everyone. And I don’t think you can turn off their flirting mechanism.”
A little girl hears for the first time the Muslim call to prayer.
Subhanallah
If you don’t think the call to prayer is one of the dopest sounds out there, you have no ears.
Will you please just look at how mesmerized this child is
this is beautiful.
“That’s a good one.” She’s so mesmerized! And her mom just doesn’t even notice.
I love this because a lot of the time in western culture Muslim traditions and practices don’t get highlighted for the beautiful things they are and here’s a little girl exposed to just a small aspect of that and she’s in awe. That’s wonderful.
The true look of wonder in this girls eyes…. It is truly a beautiful thing
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