In the chapter if talks about babies and how they don't like to be held by strangers or even sometimes people they know, they would rather be held by their own parents. I can relate to this because my family has a lot of babies. When I wanted to hold my little cousin she cried so loud for her mom to take her back. I was very sad because I really wanted to hold her, she is so cute. When I gave her back to her mom she instantly stopped crying. So her mom tried to give her to me again to see what would happen, sure enough she started to cry even louder then the first time.
When I read about stranger anxiety with babies I found out why she wanted her mom back. Babies don't like it when they are away from their parents they are content with them and most of the time don't like to be departed from them. In the book they had an example of one baby playing with her toys and with her mom in the room, as soon as the mom left the baby for very distressed and wanted her mom back. When the mom came back she wanted her mom to never leave her again. When I gave my baby cousin back to her mom and her mom tried to give her to me again, she cried louder. I think that is because she didn't want to leave her mom again so she wanted to make her mom realize that she did NOT want to be held by me but by her.
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I can also relate to your current event on stranger anxiety. The same thing happened to me a few years ago when I watching my little cousin Jaxin. She cried and there was nothing I could do to make her happy. When my aunt came home Jaxin was content and happy again. I think it is interesting how we as infants can sense who our parents are (obviously they are around most of the time).
ReplyDeleteI can definitely relate to this blog Heather! Once I was babysitting for my neighbors (this was when the kids were about 1 year old) and the boy, Raife, would always scream and cry whenever his mom left, while his sisters would just sit there playing. This goes in with how different children adapt differently in situations without their parents. Good thing it was only a stage or I probably would be deaf by now!
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