An adorable little sequence of pictures John took last week. Babies have great entertainment value! Below is a link to an interesting NYT article called: "In a Helpless Baby, the Roots of Our Social Glue." It's about cultural anthropology and child rearing. I read it in March, long before Nova was born. It made perfect sense at that time, but now I REALLY get it."A baby may look helpless. It can’t walk, talk, think symbolically or overhaul the nation’s banking system. Yet as social emulsifiers go, nothing can beat a happily babbling baby. A baby is born knowing how to work the crowd. A toothless smile here, a musical squeal there, and even hard-nosed cynics grow soft in the head and weak in the knees."
Enjoy:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/science/03angi.html?_r=1
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