The importance of play
When I had my first baby I didn't know what to do with him as an infant. Talking to him felt, well...odd. I mean he was just a pooping, breastfeeding, crying ball of flesh when he was an infant. I did spend most of my time rocking and patting his bum. I didn't really talk to him. But it seems that even infants learn and react to parents talking to them and having conversations. The human brain develops more rapidly between birth and age 5 than during any other period in life. That is amazing. I recently learned about The Still Face Experiment. I found it very intriguing and insightful. Check out this video about it. It is kind of hard to watch the baby getting upset when the mom doesn't interact with her. So you can see that babies are happier when their parents talk, play and interact with them. They are less stressed. It also gives a little insight into how babies can read people and react to a negative versus a positive situation. They are more stressed and more i