Re: [OT/ANN] Now I'm a father
There seems to be a few minutes of extreme lucidity in newborns right after birth. My son immediately grabbed my glasses after I picked him up, held onto them, and laughed at me, looking me right in the eyes. Put your face in front of your baby and stick out your tongue. What happens is that they stick out their tongue. Kee ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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Mine didn't get it... they both zonked almost immediately after being pulled out. Of course, they're MORE than making up for it now ;-) Judy On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Stephen Quinn Barncard wrote: There seems to be a few minutes of extreme lucidity in newborns right after birth. My son immediately grabbed my glasses after I picked him up, held onto them, and laughed at me, looking me right in the eyes. Put your face in front of your baby and stick out your tongue. What happens is that they stick out their tongue. Kee ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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On Jan 3, 2004, at 1:54 PM, erik hansen wrote: --- kee nethery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to recommend a book Baby Signs we picked a handful of signs and used them with the words when we communicated with our baby. were these signs pictures, words or both? the implication is that all infants are frustrated non-communicators. no wonder they cry. They are hand signs that are specific to what a baby can do with their hands. Much of ASL (American Sign Language?) involves using fingers and babies (or at least ours) wasn't able to do ASL style signs. These I guess are more akin to gestures. He learned roughly 6 of the 12 we decided to use on a regular basis and he made up around 6 of his own that we picked up on. We did not go through the frustrated non-communicator stage. It was s cool when after a shower and we had dried him off, when he asked for More Shower (since those were two signs he could do). So we stuck him back in the shower and he was amazingly happy. Kee ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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They are hand signs that are specific to what a baby can do with their hands. Much of ASL (American Sign Language?) involves using fingers and babies (or at least ours) wasn't able to do ASL style signs. These I guess are more akin to gestures. He learned roughly 6 of the 12 we decided to use on a regular basis and he made up around 6 of his own that we picked up on. We did not go through the frustrated non-communicator stage. It was s cool when after a shower and we had dried him off, when he asked for More Shower (since those were two signs he could do). So we stuck him back in the shower and he was amazingly happy. Wonderful stuff, Kee, How I wish I had known about these signs! Here is an amazing experiment you can try, Malte... I did it with our newborn, some years ago. When you walk the baby up and down the passage, and you will, and you do that slow smooth turn at the end of your length, watch your baby. If there is something that grasps his attention (a light pattern on the wall is a good one), you'll note that as you turn your body and his away, his head stays lined up with the object of his attention. Now you can move around, dip and lean, duck and weave, and his little head will adjust as required to keep looking at the spot of light. The muscle control is unbelievable, and supposed not to be there at all. I believe that our lives are governed not by fate, not even by free will, but by the play of our attention. Ah, how I wish I had known about this book! Ryno. http://artistvision.org ...a work in progress... ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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On Jan 5, 2004, at 3:59 AM, Ryno Swart wrote: How I wish I had known about these signs! Here is an amazing experiment you can try, Malte... I did it with our newborn, some years ago. In the book The Scientist In The Crib one of the authors relates an experiment he performed on a bunch of newborns for a period of time. He would make arrangements to test each newborn as soon as possible after the birth. The earliest he tested was 40 something minutes. Figured I'd try it on my son and he got the test after about 5 minutes while they were cleaning him. Put your face in front of your baby and stick out your tongue. What happens is that they stick out their tongue. OK, now think about this. Baby has not been using their eyes except for a handful of minutes. They have this thing in front of them that they have never seen before (a human face), and that thing does something. They have enough prewired stuff going on to know: 1. That the new sensory input they are receiving can be interpreted. 2. That the movement they see is actually one object. 3. That the object in front of them is doing something 4. That they can probably do the same thing. 5. That to do the same thing they have to move specific muscles. 6. And that they have a desire to do the same thing. 7. And then they can put it all together and stick out their tongue. Way amazing to interact with a baby that is just 5 minutes old. To relate this to Revolution (since this is the Revolution mailing list) it would be similar to launching Revolution for the first time and it creating a stack that learns what you want it to do by the way you move your mouse and type on the keyboard and then builds one part of that stack 5 minutes after initial launch. :-) (OK so relating this to Revolution is a stretch.) Kee ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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Funny, really, because I bought that book when my twins (now nearly three) were born and didn't much like it. What I DID do was teach them a bit of real sign language (ASL) and they DO still use it (as an example, my little girl was going into meltdown over something she wanted but didn't know how to vocalise the word -- book -- but did it with her hands... pretty cool...). Plus now she's acquiring another language (in addition to English and Spanish). Judy On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, kee nethery wrote: I'd like to recommend a book Baby Signs we picked a handful of signs and used them with the words when we communicated with our baby. At three months he could sign for more, and drink, and shower and best of all, he could tell us that he wanted his diaper changed. Half of the signs he got from us, half we got from him. He no longer uses the signs because his vocabulary is so extensive. I know the signing reduced his frustration levels by giving him a framework for communication. Highly recommended. The other advise I have is get a field notebook that will last for decades and keep notes in it about your kid. Think of it as the official log book. My wife just remembers stuff but I need it documented. When we go to the doctor I can refer to my notes in the book and answer questions. Figure when he's off to college he'll be able to refer to it when his doctor asks him did you have ...? or when was the last time you got a shot for ...? Have fun! Kee Nethery On Jan 2, 2004, at 9:32 PM, Dan Friedman wrote: Malte, When my son was born, my father-in-law said It best... The new boss is in town! :) Congratulations on the addition to the Brill family! -Dan ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [OT/ANN] Now I'm a father
--- kee nethery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to recommend a book Baby Signs we picked a handful of signs and used them with the words when we communicated with our baby. were these signs pictures, words or both? the implication is that all infants are frustrated non-communicators. no wonder they cry. some kind of motion sensor could probably connect these minds (not little) to the rest of the universe. Erik Hansen = [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.erikhansen.org __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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On Saturday, January 3, 2004, at 02:54 PM, erik hansen wrote: Baby Signs we picked a handful of signs and used them with the words when we communicated with our baby. were these signs pictures, words or both? the implication is that all infants are frustrated non-communicators. no wonder they cry. some kind of motion sensor could probably connect these minds (not little) to the rest of the universe. At our house we did not use signing, but we did use flying in which the person holding the baby was the motion sensor (or horse or grasp or dragon depending on how you think of baby flying). Dar ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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Malte, When my son was born, my father-in-law said It best... The new boss is in town! :) Congratulations on the addition to the Brill family! -Dan ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
