Although this post may not be
"interviewing" anyone specifically, I wanted to review all that we
have covered in my last several posts. It would also be quite difficult to
interview a 19th month old baby boy on the move. In discussing
several ways that the media and society affect us isn't it evident that we need
to be effected and we need to imitate in order to grow? 
My question is, "Do I have to be a Super-Mom, or have Super-Mom abilities to raise my baby to find "him" without influence?" Or do our children have to have supper abilities to fight the media and society ?-If so where do I purchase this? Can I? or do they already have it in them?
Watching the way he has developed into his own self
has been the best gift, but also quite interesting and although I am the one
along with his daddy to teach him all he knows he has taught us a bunch as
well.
At this time my son is a very active healthy baby
boy, he was an early walker and an early babbler. Although he is not just yet
speaking sentences he most certainly shocks us with the things that he does
say. For instance, last week he learned to climb onto our coffee table and then
from there onto the top of couch when I turned around to scold him in fear he
would get hurt when he ever so quickly jumped off the couch and climbed back
onto the floor as if he never climbed at all. When I shouted “Jayden” and
proceeded to explain how climbing on couches is bad and dangerous in a way in
which he can explain in his young age, he propped his hand on his hip, leaned
his body weight to the right of his leg (the same side to where his hand was
propped on his hip) and with his left arm straightened out and his index finger
up the words “NO NO NO!” came out of my sons mouth.
At this age for all of you who do not know, this is
a tough age. He is just whining into as many of you may have heard of the
“terrible two’s”. He is so active you should never take your eyes off of him,
and they begin to speak words but they understand more than they speak. With
this particular incident I immediately froze and had to hide my laughter
because it was hilarious. At the same time all I could think in stun was-
“Where the hell did he learn that?”.
He does watch tv, but to learn anything at that age
they would have to witness a specific action or hear a specific word several
times.
Just as when we read books, as well as when he
“reads” books on his own. I always hold my finger over each word I read to him
so in the future when we begin to teach him to read the words look familiar
with the way that they sound, sometimes I find him with an open book
baby-babbling with hi finger over all the words.
What I am drawing is that for any and most children
they watch, observe and mimic in order to learn. But what if they didn’t, what
if there was some sort of experiment where a child was not surrounded by anyone
to be influenced what would they be like. This brought me to remember the
experiment about the boy they found in the woods whom was raised by monkeys.
There are several incidents such as this, for those
of you who do not know what I am referring to here are some links:
So here is where my main point is, how do we
analyze such an idea when it seems natural for a human to compare, mimic, copy
and or imitate whoever is in their environment from birth or at any young age.
Is this something that is possible to live or grow
without?
What about celebrities and all we have covered in
earlier posts- do we use gossip about celebrities and such more than just for
our own motivation?- In some way do we feel connected to grow or analyze our own
sense of self?
We all know how hard it is to break a pattern that
we are adjusted to especially when it is something that has become part of our
daily routine. And on the other side of this, we all understand how difficult
it is to start a new routine, like dieting or exercising.
So what would a day/or your day be like trying to
not compare, mimic and you tried to be “you” without any influence from the
outside world-is it possible?
Here is some information on what a child’s
development process is at 19 months old. Please keep in mind, that children are
different, that includes their growth and development processes;
As for my son, I will constantly think about all of these ideas, and the ways in which he grows into "him". How much do I affect who he is and how much does the outside world, is it possible for me to help him grow with confidence and pride and the strength to find himself without any outside voice or action impacting him?
While also think about this remember that there are positives as well as negative effects of an individual learning and growing within with all that surrounds them. I also wonder, what is it like for a child's development level and speed with an older sibling and how does this topic change or effect them-is it different?
Picture Credits:
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"Photograph of super hero baby"; http://img0.etsystatic.com/000/0/6005836/il_fullxfull.269515580.jpg
"Young Brain"; http://pactprevention.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/youngbrain.png
"world-eye"; http://cache.desktopnexus.com/thumbnails/29272-bigthumbnail.jpg
"World think like I do"; http://s471.photobucket.com/user/besb00007/media/cartoon-self-centered-world.jpg.html"
"you change world by being you";http://nonajordan.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Wave-Change-World.001.png
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