Friday, March 03, 2006
Study Shows Babies Try to Help - Yahoo! News
Before I entered the business world I spent my adolescence as a camp counselor, life guard and, for the last few years before starting at Hydrotech, as a nanny and I am so glad this study came out. People thought I was crazy when I would share stories about experiences I'd encounter. Kids, and especially toddlers, are so much smarter than people give them credit for and not only does this study elude to that, but also shows an innate goodness. They want to help.
I think this study also supports the belief that kids can sense what you are going through. I remember calling my mom up when I was sitting with a new family and I could not get the baby to stop crying for almost an hour. We sang, we danced, we walked, we swung, etc. I finally called up mama Gina in tears myself not knowing what to do and she told me that if I didn't calm down Georgia wouldn't either. And wouldn't you know, Gina was dead on. Georgia knew how uptight and nervous I was and I was making her uncomfortable. Go figure, she was empathizing with me. And she was only 5 months old!
Another quick story I'm going to bore you with, well you can't be that bored if you've hung in here with me for this long, has to do with my cousin Sam. When I was 20 and he was 18 months I got my tongue pierced. I was pretty careful not to go flashing it around and having a long drawn out discussion (read: getting yelled at) with my parents but one day while I was giving Sam a bath he noticed it. Whenever we were alone he would look at me and stick out his tongue and I would do the same. One afternoon my cousin (his mom) Susan came in the room as Sam was trying to get me to show him my ring and he immediately stopped. The moment Susan turned around he motioned for me to show him and I did, and sure enough when Susan looked at us Sam looked away. He was barely a year and a half and he was so with it without my even telling him it was our secret!
Ok enough about my nannying days. I really can't believe I miss it as much as I do especially after this post orignally dated, December 17, 2006
i clearly need to work on my resume
i refuse to believe that the only job I, a senior honors student at Fordham University, am qualified to do is look after an infant and watch endless hours of the wiggles...www.thewiggles.com..and listen to the bi-lingual tickle-me-elmo sing the sesame street theme song in spanish.los dÃas asoleados que barren las nubes lejos en mi manera a donde está dulcepueden usted el aire decirme cómo conseguir cómo conseguir a sesame streetyeah, thats my life. i drive home with that in my head.
In conclusion, I'm really just glad a study was done that isn't painfully obvious to anyone with half a brain.
Before I entered the business world I spent my adolescence as a camp counselor, life guard and, for the last few years before starting at Hydrotech, as a nanny and I am so glad this study came out. People thought I was crazy when I would share stories about experiences I'd encounter. Kids, and especially toddlers, are so much smarter than people give them credit for and not only does this study elude to that, but also shows an innate goodness. They want to help.
I think this study also supports the belief that kids can sense what you are going through. I remember calling my mom up when I was sitting with a new family and I could not get the baby to stop crying for almost an hour. We sang, we danced, we walked, we swung, etc. I finally called up mama Gina in tears myself not knowing what to do and she told me that if I didn't calm down Georgia wouldn't either. And wouldn't you know, Gina was dead on. Georgia knew how uptight and nervous I was and I was making her uncomfortable. Go figure, she was empathizing with me. And she was only 5 months old!
Another quick story I'm going to bore you with, well you can't be that bored if you've hung in here with me for this long, has to do with my cousin Sam. When I was 20 and he was 18 months I got my tongue pierced. I was pretty careful not to go flashing it around and having a long drawn out discussion (read: getting yelled at) with my parents but one day while I was giving Sam a bath he noticed it. Whenever we were alone he would look at me and stick out his tongue and I would do the same. One afternoon my cousin (his mom) Susan came in the room as Sam was trying to get me to show him my ring and he immediately stopped. The moment Susan turned around he motioned for me to show him and I did, and sure enough when Susan looked at us Sam looked away. He was barely a year and a half and he was so with it without my even telling him it was our secret!
Ok enough about my nannying days. I really can't believe I miss it as much as I do especially after this post orignally dated, December 17, 2006
i clearly need to work on my resume
i refuse to believe that the only job I, a senior honors student at Fordham University, am qualified to do is look after an infant and watch endless hours of the wiggles...www.thewiggles.com..and listen to the bi-lingual tickle-me-elmo sing the sesame street theme song in spanish.los dÃas asoleados que barren las nubes lejos en mi manera a donde está dulcepueden usted el aire decirme cómo conseguir cómo conseguir a sesame streetyeah, thats my life. i drive home with that in my head.
In conclusion, I'm really just glad a study was done that isn't painfully obvious to anyone with half a brain.
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