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Soon... Babies will take over the world!

Anyone with a baby and some good perceptual skills knows that this is absolutely true. All that "goo goo ga ga" talk we do is only harming their development because they understand language long before they can ever speak it. My grandson is just turned 2 years old and still isn't forming complete sentences but he damn sure knows when I'm talking to him in complete sentences, he knows how to cry to get sympathy for a "Time Out" offense, and he knows that when everyone in the room is laughing, if he too bursts into a loud explosion of laughter, then all eyes will be upon him, and that's when he goes for the kill, y'all. That baby gets everyone's attention and immediately fires off something like *"Cookie, cookie cookie?"*. He uses the attention he just garnered with his fake laugh to obtain the cookie. BRILLIANT!!! This weekend my parents traveled down and my dad sat down with Liam (the baby genius) and handed Liam the iPhone. Liam only needed to be shown once how to use his finger to scroll for the icon he wanted and had that phone in his control (at least as far as finding and choosing the movie he wanted) in a matter of seconds. He's 2 years old!! Babies are geniuses, talk to them like they are. Don't talk to your baby like he's stupid and doesn't understand because they do understand, and they understand well. What they can't understand in words, they understand in our emotions, attitudes, and body language. ....and for Pete's sake, if you're a parent be a parent always. Please, I beg of you, don't leave your child behind in this life. Dad's, your sons need you more than you could EVER possibly imagine and your absence from their lives does irreparable harm, it scars them so deeply. Please be your child's parent, even if you have to go through the spouse/partner/mate from hell to do it. It's worth it at the end of that 18 years when they're finally adults. (re: American law).

Anthony! Weren't you a baby once?!