Believe it or not, what you feed your baby and when you feed her, certain foods can determine whether she will have allergies. The way you approach her early forays into solid foods and her first attempts at feeding herself, will influence her eating habits. The general menu you offer her may well predict her lifelong dietary choices. Surely, all her choices come with consequences, but that three-times-daily habit of eating is most basic to and therefore most influential of who she will be. But there are other factors at work here. In the second lesson we are reminded each of us is unique. Although there are generalities concerning when your child will walk and talk and gain other abilities, there are no set rules. The learning process involves connectors in the brain called "synapses," which make the connection in our minds between experience and understanding. This connection must occur before we can acquire a new understanding. Then, as we age, some connections are severed and understanding is lost. And, finally, we are not always open to all types of learning. For example, babies have a "window of opportunity" during which they can learn to speak. When a baby's deafness causes them to miss this opportunity, even if the disability is subsequently corrected, they will have great difficulty learning to speak.
Believe it or not, what you feed your baby and when you feed her, certain foods can determine whether she will have allergies. The way you approach her early forays into solid foods and her first attempts at feeding herself, will influence her eating habits. The general menu you offer her may well predict her lifelong dietary choices. Surely, all her choices come with consequences, but that three-times-daily habit of eating is most basic to and therefore most influential of who she will be. But there are other factors at work here. In the second lesson we are reminded each of us is unique. Although there are generalities concerning when your child will walk and talk and gain other abilities, there are no set rules. The learning process involves connectors in the brain called "synapses," which make the connection in our minds between experience and understanding. This connection must occur before we can acquire a new understanding. Then, as we age, some connections are severed and understanding is lost. And, finally, we are not always open to all types of learning. For example, babies have a "window of opportunity" during which they can learn to speak. When a baby's deafness causes them to miss this opportunity, even if the disability is subsequently corrected, they will have great difficulty learning to speak.
General Note
Originally released by True to Life Productions, 2016.
Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on November 07, 2018.
