06 JUL 2011 by ideonexus

 Babies Flirt

There are other reasons to think that even very young babies are especially tuned to people. Babies flirt. One of the great pleasures in life is to hold a three-month-old in your arms and talk absolute nonsense. "My, my, my," you hear your usually sane, responsible, professional voice saying, "you are a pretty bunny, aren't you, aren't you, aren't you, sweetums, aren't you a pretty bunny?" You raise your eyebrows and purse your mouth and make ridiculous faces. But the even more striking thing...
Folksonomies: motherhood babies bonding
Folksonomies: motherhood babies bonding
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The back and forth of goo-goo eyes and cooing between mothers and their babies is a flirtatious bonding.