Uh-oh.

Babies not as innocent as they pretend.

When you have to reconstruct a thought process after entering in the middle, it makes context clues all the more important

Absolutely. But my friend rarely even gives me context clues. She's not medicated for ADHD and there are days when it is painfully obvious.

That's interesting. I don't know that it's "deception" per se. They learn that a certain action will provoke a certain response. Deception, to me, has an element of intent to make someone believe something that's not true. The children don't consciously want the parent to believe that they're wet or hungry or whatever, they just know that crying will bring attention.

good luck,askye. whatever the solution is, it sounds like a problem worth tackling.

I went to the doctor today - because, if anything, I was getting worse. What she thought is that I have gotten viruses on top of the original virus -When my lungs got inflamed they made room for new viruses. and the teen fever - hints that bacteria are trying to take over. so antibiotic time.She gave me the option of starting the antibiotics later, but I know I getting worse.

I just Frontlined the cat.

It took a minute to shake the idea that you'd forced the cat to watch hours of PBS documentaries.

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The children don't consciously want the parent to believe that they're wet or hungry or whatever, they just know that crying will bring attention.

How do we know they don't want the parents to believe they're not okay? There's the problem with studying the pre-verbal. The difference between "mom comes when I cry" and "mom comes when I complain about a wet diaper" is wafer thin.

The difference between "mom comes when I cry" and "mom comes when I complain about a wet diaper" is wafer thin.

right, which is why I have a problem with the researcher calling it "deception"

I like to assume they know something I don't, but stranger things have happened.

Mainstream articles about scientific studies are too often wack.

Paging Trudy:

Yesterday I wore my Hello Kitty necklace (which is just redonkulously cute) and hung out with a 5-year-old girl. At one point, she said, "I LOVE YOU HELLO KITTY!" and kissed my necklace like 5 times! Just thought you'd like to know that the younger generations are carrying on the HK love.

Babies cry and/or whine when they are unhappy, because they don't have the words to explain their unhappiness and ask for what they want. They can be unhappy because they're in pain, hungry, not feeling well, wet, poopy, tired, hot, cold, lonely, or just having a bad day. Their cries differ. Most parents know the difference between their cries after a while. I don't think it's intentional deception so much as using communication that's proven effective.

On the other hand, there were lots of times my kids were doing the bored or lonely cry that I responded with, "Oh, you big faker." But I went to them anyhow, because they were mine, and cute, and smart enough to let me know they were pissed off, and because I wanted the noise to stop.