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THE GUARDIAN Tears, tantrums and other experiments
How do babies think? Alison Gopnik, professor of developmental psychology,
explains
Wednesday January 26, 2000
When my son was a toddler his first question about a meal was always:
"What's for dessert?" One day, we had pineapple in kirsch. He spat it
out, then looked at the grown-ups devouring the stuff, and said: "Pineapple:
it's yucky for me but it's yummy for you." For weeks afterwards, he would
stop suddenly in the middle of a game and say, "Pineapple: yucky for me
but yummy for you", as if he had discovered the most extraordinary fact
of life. And in a sense he had: the realisation that people think and
feel differently is a profound one.
Full text: http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/parents/story/0,3605,129034,00.html
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