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Hello everyone, how are you today? When I saw this weekly featured content, I was thinking of what to write about it. Despite I was part of people that voted for the featured contest last Saturday hangout; I was still short of what to write about baby.
One thing I deduced from this contest is that the contest is more practical; it is a practical experience one had in the past.
Babies are creature from God, they can easily get attach to someone and also get detach easily. They are controlled by circumstances such as pain, hunger, pleasure and many more. If a baby is hungry, the only language you can hear from such baby is âcryingâ: that is the reason when they are in undergoing unpleasant situation they keep on crying until you find something to relieve them.
âHuman mind at a birth is tabula rasaâ - John Locke.
This simply means that at birth, a childâs mind is âblank slateâ waiting for something to be written upon. That is the reason a baby grasp whatever he/she taught or observed either good or bad. Baby can only process information for a short time: that is the reason when a baby is hungry and the mother gives him/her food to eat, she stops crying. A baby may not stop crying until you satisfy his/her desires; and the moment the desire is satisfied, he/she stops crying.
There is a 'bonding' process between a child and her mother. This is due to the care, protection and nourishment of her mother; these are the reasons you could see a stronger bond between mother and a child than a father and a child. A child knows and perceives one that is closer to them.
A child has affection with a person that is closer to him/her: I could remember when I was living with my uncle. My uncleâs wife happened to work in a big organization which made her to get a nanny for her baby. She was sent to South Africa for 3 weeks, and when she came back. The little baby developed affection with Nanny than her biological mother. For the whole three weeks, the Nany was there for her, sleeping together, feeding her, and protecting her. It took days before the baby began to develop a mother-to-child bond with her mother.
***MY FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH A BABY ***
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When I was living with my sibling with his wife in the city: they had a baby Girl and her name was Florence, I was there when Florence was born; but one of my problems was that I donât know how to carry baby especially 0-3 months. Therefore, I donât like to carry Florence even when she is crying. It is not that I am wicked but donât know how to carry a baby comfortably. Hence, for three months, I did not carry Florence with my hands; but I was playing with her, getting her babyâs toys.
On this faithful day, I bought a toy for her, and I was about to leave the house and get together with my friends. Florence started crying and raising her hand up for me to carry her.
Her mother said, âshe wants you to carry herâ.
She gave me the baby to carry and she stopped crying; when her mother wanted to carry her from my hands, she refused to follow her mother. That was my first time carrying a baby.
When Florence started crawling, she would crawl from her mother's room to my room. She always checked my door, maybe I am back from work.
When she was 10 months and above, I started buying biscuits and other eatable items for her. Hence, whenever she heard my voice while coming from the office, even though she was eating, she would leave the food and come to me with happiness because she knew I would surely get her something her.
As I was buying things for her, the connection was getting stronger: The connection between I and Florence was so strong to the extent that I used to take her out on Saturday
The shopping mall was 3km away from our house: I and the little kid could spend 3-4 hours in that shopping mall.
She loved yoghurt and biscuits, and that was what I usually bought for her in the shopping mall; then, sitting down in the children area and playing with toys. She also mingled with children of her age, and played with them.
It was a war between I and Florence while coming back home; she always loves to stay there as long as she wanted to play with those toys and friends. It was always tough for me to carry her home because she didnât know that time is everything.
When she started working, she always wanted me to carry her to everywhere i went except my office. Whenever I opened my door to go out, she would run out from her motherâs room to follow me irrespective of where I was going; this made me sneak out most times if donât want to carry her along.
Her mother was always very happy whenever I carried her out, even if I wanted to sneak out, her mother would say, âuncle is about to go outâ.
Florence would run to the gate, waiting for me there. She slept and ate her food in my room sometimes thinking that I wanted to go out.
BABIES KNOW YOUR EXPRESSIONS
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When a baby is 6 months and above, they understand when you are angry at them. If you beat them today and also do the same tomorrow, they will start to run away from you or get scared of you.
Some of them understand when you are using facial expression to talk to them. If you squeeze your face and shout, they get scared, cry and run away from such a person.
If you show love to them, they are very happy with you, and want to be with you.
This is the reason Florence loved me so much and always wanted to be with me. She wanted me to carry her to anywhere I was going.
Sheâs 5 years old now; and anytime I visit them, she wants me to take her out. She always asked me, âuncle, where are you going?â
When I went there during the December period to celebrate Christmas and New year with them; she was following me to everywhere.
I stand up for success, and success is not achieved by merely making mouth, No room for laziness, no room for idleness. Success comes to the people who are desperately and consciously searching for it. When it seems unsuccessful or you smell failure around you, never discourage yourself to be successful.
âDiscouragement and failure are the two surest stepping stones to success.â - Dale
Thank you for reading my post.