MENTAL DEVELOPMENT OF BABIES.
Does \ your woelwild baby' twiddlo 'his fingers :find;,tpes?" . is ;.the' question' which,Dr.'. Warren,:; r bealtfr..expert, 'would every niotlier...' - Ai;tHat\early -agej.tho abtive are 'the,first ; signs, ofthe ..baby's possession' i6f:a;'mind;,-'K.when^the^ listless) it .is; a_• sure sign.".that: ''something 'is . wrong.';':, Wh'on : a jbaby .is a tfew. days old the- 1 bead "should be" '! :12. "or•• 13;iiftchfek—iii ■circumference.' ":At : : mne " J mbnths, .the .have reached 17i .inches;.:^Duringthe early' stages of.'.lifGj '-indeed, grows." atan astonishing /rate,tb'e circumference' iof < the head: seven:-y-ears r:-oldji'^.iwlicsii->. ; clijld- 1 ■ ■merges, from ; babyhood,to school days,' having,'' reached;2l: inches.;.VAt;-,four..months old- the , next advances • should .be seen, - when on •sight'' of;a, coloured •.'.ball : the .movements 'stop'. poitten%^ l five months a new action appears; after, tho arrest of, the movement, arm; and ' hand ; :.: are. C slowly brought to the object; a month later ' theVobjekit- is-grasped-for a}.,moment; again' later is-.held: lit theso Ways the fact that'the - brain is developing is proved.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 399, 7 January 1909, Page 3
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151MENTAL DEVELOPMENT OF BABIES. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 399, 7 January 1909, Page 3
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