[blparent] child smiling

[Erin Rumer]

I have always made a point to smile at my baby a lot and make different
funny faces at him so that hopefully I'm smiling at him when he's smiling at
me and so that he just sees mom as silly and fun.  Dawson is 7.5 months now
and he's always been a very smiley baby with very expressive faces and I'd
like to believe that aside from his personal character all my smiling and
playing with him making funny faces really helped him develop all the great
looks he gives.

Additionally, I have made a point to praise Dawson every time he
communicates with me verbally or by touching me to get my attention which
has really aided him in being a more verbal and hands-on baby.  That helps
mom a ton!  I can't remember where I heard this but there have been studies
ton on children of at least one blind parent and on average these children
tend to start talking sooner than children of parents who are sighted.  This
makes a lot of sense since they can't just point and grunt at something they
want, but rather they have to be more clear in there verbal communication if
they are to actually get their message across.

Erin Rumer

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of jan wright
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 5:32 AM
To: blparent
Subject: [blparent] child smiling

Hi, you can also feel which way his head is facing and imagine what he might
be looking at over there.
Since my youngest son spend most of the time around blind people, he had a
delay in focusing on objects. But, honestly, either way, they catch up and
it is no problem.
Sometimes smiling is involuntary, anyway and sighted people think that the
baby is smiling at them, but it is really that they have gas or something
else.
So, don't stress out!
Things will be fine and like the others said, your baby will give you other
clues to what they are thinking/feeling.

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