Babies express emotions from birth and the earliest feelings are mostly limited to distress and disgust. The degree, intensity and qualitative differences in emotions grow slowly with age.
Full emotional flowering happens with the physical and mental growth of the baby into childhood and then adolescence. As adults, we gauge children’s emotions by our own standards rather than by the child’s level of emotional and mental maturity. Developmental scientists are trying to do away with this very unrealistic intervention. Mental growth is logical and orderly, if allowed to proceed along natural lines and when it is not interfered with by adults.
A ONE YEAR OLD BABY IS ABLE TO DISTINGUISH ITSELF AS AN INDEPENDANT INDIVIDUAL.
By the time the baby is a year old, it is able to distinguish itself as a separate entity. It can identify that the distress of another baby but not its own distress. But there is some....
