Kids'r Cute

The dork in me is totally fascinated by early childhood brain development. This is a great example of it (and it's real cute to boot):



Notice how mom asks how big is a whale? to get sonny boy to raise his arms. He understands how to react to that input, but hasn't yet appeared to make the connection between his own input and the reaction he's causing. It's also a nice example of how a single action might get both the reaction we expect, and a completely unexpected one (see this recent post about habits). Plus, like I said, it's pretty darn cute.


[via It's Nice That]