Babies understand even from the womb of the mother.
They listen to sounds and are influenced by it.
This has been noticed in Legends and Ithihasas of India.
In Mahabharata, Abhimanu learns of Chakra Vyuha when he was in the womb of his mother Subhadra and his father , after teaching him as to how to enter the Vyuha, leaves the bedside with out teaching how to get out.
Abhimany gets killed later in a War having entered the Vyuha and unable to come out of it.
Researches had indicated that babies could listen to the sounds.
Now it is understood that they can understand the accents of Mother and can distinguish between accents of languages.
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Baby in Uterus.
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Abstract
Aims
To test the hypothesis that exposure to ambient language in the womb alters phonetic perception shortly after birth. This two-country study aimed to see whether neonates demonstrated prenatal learning by how they responded to vowels in a category from their native language and another non-native language, regardless of how much postnatal experience the infants had.
Method
A counterbalanced experiment was conducted in Sweden (n = 40) and the USA (n = 40) using Swedish and English vowel sounds. The neonates (mean postnatal age = 33 h) controlled audio presentation of either native or non-native vowels by sucking on a pacifier, with the number of times they sucked their pacifier being used to demonstrate what vowel sounds attracted their attention. The vowels were either the English/i/or Swedish/y/in the form of a prototype plus 16 variants of the prototype.
Results
The infants in the native and non-native groups responded differently. As predicted, the infants responded to the unfamiliar non-native language with higher mean sucks. They also sucked more to the non-native prototype. Time since birth (range: 7–75 h) did not affect the outcome.
Conclusion
The ambient language to which foetuses are exposed in the womb starts to affect their perception of their native language at a phonetic level. This can be measured shortly after birth by differences in responding to familiar vs. unfamiliar vowels.
Parents are some thing to be ridiculed and insulted.
A seed also becomes a tree begetting seeds.
The last line of the Mother was poignant.
‘I don’t know. But please tell me I’m not alone. And that it will be okay.’
Rest Assured, You are not Alone.
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I can only quote Shakespeare.
‘How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is To have a thankless child. King Lear (1.4.280)
Story:
A Mother’s Agony Over Her Son.
I’m going to be honest with you guys. I’m really tired of my son.
The level of disrespect and general level of unhappiness is becoming so distressing that I’m barely functioning as his mother. I don’t want to be around him. I don’t want to do anything for him.
I’ve given this so much thought — maybe too much. What am I doing wrong? Why is he so unhappy? Is he depressed? Do we have a real issue here?
I don’t have the answer. He is generally a normal, happy boy. Until it comes to me or his father. The way he treats us is just…horrifying. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING is ever right. Ever enough.
Why? How did we create this person who disrespects, demands, and blames us for everything? How did he become so… spoiled?
What do you do when all you want to do is scream, and cry, and hit, and run away?
What do you do when it’s always just boiling. Festering.
When the last thing you want to hear is anyone’s voice. Whether disrespecting, whining, asking, needing.
When you can’t for the LIFE of you imagine what else they could possibly need. What you AREN’T doing?
When the more you give them, the more they want. The more they complain. The more they tell you they hate you. What a terrible mother you are.
Who am I raising? And what am I doing wrong. Isn’t the way he treats me a reflection on my motherhood?
I love him so much. This is not the mother I wanted to be. I wanted to be the mother who has long talks, and listens, and encourages moving away from the norm. Using imagination, experimentation. Trial and error.
But I’m not.
I’m the mother who needs strict adherence to the rules. The routine. Do it now the way I want it done before my head blows off.
I don’t know why. Because I work from here, and I need some level of understanding and order? Because I just need people to not be contradictory even for just a little while?
Two West Seattle brothers accused of literally leaving their father to rot to death now face felony elderly-abuse charges.
King County prosecutors contend Kenneth and Keith Shaw lived rent-free in their parents’ Alki neighborhood home while their 86-year-old father wasted away, neglected. Police contend the pair of 50-somethings refused to move their parents into a nursing home because they wanted to inherit their parents’ ample savings.
Conditions were so bad when paramedics arrived in November 2010 that a trail of blood followed Kyle Shaw Jr. as the first responders carried him from the home, Seattle Police Det. Suzanne Moore told the court.
One’s belongings like shirts,Chappals,Shoes were every ones.
People used whatever was available.
Cooking was done in the common kitchen and the Firer in the kitchen never got doused till about midnight.
None felt the absence of their parents nor did they feel left out or ignored.
Every one’s needs were met.
Those were the times when emotional cushion was the best.
Some one can be chosen by you to communicate. depending on your need and problems.
Thus an Adolescent can discuss any thing from Drinking to Sex with Uncles and Cousins without fear or reservations.
Now. as the Tamil Humorist Crazy Moan put it. husband and wife living together is joint family!
Views on the infants sleeping with their parents(parents with Infants) are quite hot on the Internet.
The emotional bonding, the physical proximity,and physical touch between the parents and children up to Ten-years has a lot to do with the security feeling of the children in their adolescent and even in adult stages.
The reasons quoted about the inconvenience to parents , to me, looks , childish.
If one wants to have a stable adult, more than any thing, physical proximity is important.
Well there are always exceptions, including the pervert parents who abuse the children.
Keep the children away from them.(this has to be done by the others, like parents of the couple).
(There are some Marwari/Gujarati Families who follow the traditional Joint Family System in India).
Co-Sleeping.
Story:
Based on my own experiences, I’ve created a short list of the top threats that older babies and toddlers pose to their parents in a co-sleeping environment. I’m sure there are millions more, so feel free to add your own dangers in the comment section below. Together, we must create awareness!…
1. The midnight caller. Parents should be warned against bringing any kind of cellular device into bed with them or within a toddler’s reach. Unless, of course, you don’t mind being bludgeoned in the head with your cell phone before dawn.
2. Eye love you, daddy! So much so, that little Johnny is going to take that cute little finger of his and jab it right through your sleepy eyelid! I would imagine this is why God gave us two.
3. The toddler chokehold. They may be little, but they are mighty. Be aware of your little one’s sleeping position at all times. One minute they’re lovingly sleeping in the crook of your arm, and the next, they’re lying sideways across your throat cutting off life sustaining oxygen to your brain.
4. The fish hook. I’m sure that to a toddler, the two black holes in mommy’s nose may seem like a magnificent curiosity, but to a mom, there is nothing curious about being jarred awake by your child trying to dig your brains out through your nostril.
5. The bitch slap. A more common threat to parents worldwide, this danger is more likely to occur during the morning hours. The bitch slap may be a rude awakening to the parent of an impatiently hungry toddler who wants their damn cheerios right now.
encourages breastfeeding by making nighttime breastfeeding more convenient
makes it easier for a nursing mother to get her sleep cycle in sync with her baby’s
helps babies fall asleep more easily, especially during their first few months and when they wake up in the middle of the night
helps babies get more nighttime sleep (because they awaken more frequently with shorter duration of feeds, which can add up to a greater amount of sleep throughout the night)
helps parents who are separated from their babies during the day regain the closeness with their infant that they feel they missed.
Psychologist Thomas Ollendick of Virginia Tech University is currently researching whether co-sleeping is associated with lower rates of nighttime fear.
In the meantime–whether your child sleeps alone or with family members–one thing seems clear. Nighttime fears and separation anxiety should be taken seriously.
Although the kids in the Australian study were selected from the general population (as opposed to a psychiatric practice or sleep clinic), researchers discovered that about 10% of children complaining of nighttime fears fit the criteria for an anxiety disorder.
Other research suggests strong links between anxiety and bad dreams.
A recent study of toddlers and preschoolers reports that 17-month old kids who were rated by their mothers as anxious, difficult, or emotionally disturbed were more likely than other children to have bad dreams at 29 months (Simard et al 2008).
I find parents ,under the pretext of helping(/) children correct their Homework.This starts quite early.
The Child,naturally is frustrated.
My Daughter attempts to do the Homework for my Grandson; he either does exactly opposite to her instructions or throws the Notebook away.
I support him-mind you he is 4!
True, I have seen most, Imay say, all parents do their Children‘ Home work, under the guise of helping them.
This becomes such a routine the child as it grows up asks its parent, especially the Mother to do the Homework.
And she does.
I recall that my father did not even know in which Class I was studying, though he was the Head Master of the School!
At times, while taking Classes, where I sit,he used to ask me whether I belonged to that Class!
As to my mother, well, what she was interested wa whether I ate properly.
Such was the Freedom parents gave us.
We did our Homework,though it was not as heavy as it is today and if we forgot, faced the Music!
I might add,to emphasize, despite this ‘inattention’ on the part of my parents, I came out District Second and School First.
In their anxiety parents resort to this Homework>
What they do is to de-motivate the child.
Unless one makes mistakes, one never learns, as in Life.
Schools have their own contribution to make.
They conduct Interviews for parents before admitting the Child to pre-KG!
If your parents are educated and give an undertaking that they will check the Child’s Homework daily, the child gets the admission!
Leave the Child be.
MomHelpingWithHomework
“Dear Mouthy Housewives,
My son just started 5th grade and I noticed that when I check his homework, he is making many more mistakes. Should I be correcting them? I feel like if I say “look at number 8 again” that signals to him that there’s a problem. Isn’t that like cheating?
Signed,
Mathy Mama
Dear Mathy,
You know I’m pretty sure that when we were kids this is one problem that our parents didn’t have. At least mine didn’t. Because if they ever looked at my attempts at math homework, they rolled their eyes and got me to a tutor, STAT.
Yes, in my day, we did our homework up the hill in the snow backwards and our parents stayed out of it. Because they had other things to do and “you’re a bit of a math moron, aren’t you, Marinka?” Sorry. Flashbacks.
But things are different today. We want our kids to succeed and for some reason that often means that we don’t want them to make mistakes. Even relatively harmless ones on their homework that don’t have life-altering consequences.
It’s not cheating so much as not allowing him to turn in his own work. Wait, what’s cheating again?
Ask yourself why you are checking your son’s homework. If it’s to make sure it’s getting done, that’s one thing. But if it’s to catch any errors before he hands in his work then I don’t think what you are doing is helpful. Because making mistakes is part of learning. And seeing those mistakes on the homework is one of the ways that the teacher knows your son isn’t understanding a concept. Or that he’s making a careless mistake. In either event, the teacher needs to know.
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