Just watched this segment on Channel NewsAsia about this Australian lady, Priscilla Dunstan, who claimed to have deciphered the different sounds and cries of a newborn baby...
Cause its not well publicise.. All these are research works done by educationists and psychologists So unless you take a module on it or in the child care line.. Most prob you wont hear abt all these...
Priscilla's so called baby talk.
anonymous
January 3 2007, 14:39:04 UTC
Hi...my name is Natasha and I'm from Australia. I have 5 children aged 18years down to 2years. I found that Priscilla Dunstan's claims on "discovering" baby language is not rocket science. It is called "mothers instinct" and been around for many hundreds of years. There will be many mothers around the world, apon hearing her so called advice, will be very gullable and spend the money on buying her dvd, when all they have to do is have the nurturing instinct (which comes naturally to about 95% of mothers) relax, respond quickly and enjoy your baby. My best friend went to school with Priscilla in Sydney at the International Grammer School at Surry Hills. She was a great con-artist then...looks like she is an expert at it now. Anyway..what she claims is pretty obvious. All of my 5 children were happy settled babies from day 1..and oh my god!! I didn't have Priscilla's dvd, how did I do it??????? Think about it. How do tribal mother's in the middle of Africa cope? Exactly!!! Mothers Intuition!! Thanks for your time. Greetings from down
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Re: Priscilla's so called baby talk.
anonymous
January 7 2007, 11:40:20 UTC
I have been following blogs and web discussion forums quite closely on this topic. I'm wondering where Natasha's statistics about the 'nurturing instinct' came from! Natasha appears to have been either one of the lucky ones whose babies did not cry much, or simply wasn't all that perturbed by the crying and saw it as normal. In either case, that's great Natasha, good on ya. However about 30% of all babies cry frequently and inconsolably, and this is not the fault of the mother. And Natasha, you can check this figure with any reputable pediatrician or infant care book. There are various names attached to this phenomenon such as 'irritable infant', 'colic' etc. These aren't strictly medical conditions however it does suggest that some babies are more sensitive than others. Wouldn't it be nice if we could equip parents to better respond to their needs? From what I have seen, there are plenty of testaments from parents on various internet discussion forums and blogs that would suggest that there is merit to the system.
Re: Priscilla's so called baby talk.merman13January 12 2007, 15:22:54 UTC
Hey hey, thanks for your comments too! :P
I am pretty neutral about whether this "baby language" system works or not, but I think it certainly has its merits in promoting more parental-child awareness and sensitivity...
I personally think that our babies absorb and reflect our own individual behaviours and personalities. It would not be hard to assume that happy parents have happy babies, and angry parents have nervous terrified babies...
I would, however, like to know if Asian babies react or generate a body language differently from babies of other races. Or that we are really ALL born the same everywhere... :P
Re: Priscilla's so called baby talk.
anonymous
January 17 2007, 13:03:33 UTC
hi there, dunstan proposes that since humans have the same basic needs and physiological reflexes, the 'words' should be universal. she claims to have observed identical words from babies all around the world, including asia. it makes sense really, since we're not actually talking about a 'language' produced by conscious thought, but rather sound added to a physiological reflex.
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I study that.. Child psychology in one of my module..
Apparently a child will convey their message thru the sounds that they made since they havent mastered on how to talk properly..
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All these are research works done by educationists and psychologists
So unless you take a module on it or in the child care line..
Most prob you wont hear abt all these...
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Well, e module that I took we are being taught..
So I can make conversation with babies u know.. Whaha
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Whaha...
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Natasha appears to have been either one of the lucky ones whose babies did not cry much, or simply wasn't all that perturbed by the crying and saw it as normal. In either case, that's great Natasha, good on ya. However about 30% of all babies cry frequently and inconsolably, and this is not the fault of the mother. And Natasha, you can check this figure with any reputable pediatrician or infant care book.
There are various names attached to this phenomenon such as 'irritable infant', 'colic' etc. These aren't strictly medical conditions however it does suggest that some babies are more sensitive than others. Wouldn't it be nice if we could equip parents to better respond to their needs?
From what I have seen, there are plenty of testaments from parents on various internet discussion forums and blogs that would suggest that there is merit to the system.
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I am pretty neutral about whether this "baby language" system works or not, but I think it certainly has its merits in promoting more parental-child awareness and sensitivity...
I personally think that our babies absorb and reflect our own individual behaviours and personalities. It would not be hard to assume that happy parents have happy babies, and angry parents have nervous terrified babies...
I would, however, like to know if Asian babies react or generate a body language differently from babies of other races. Or that we are really ALL born the same everywhere... :P
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