Putting aside all my spiritual beliefs, I still don't beleive that children are born "blank". I believe that our most important period of time, in terms of experiences which defines our personality, is the time we spend inside our mother's womb. While there, we share all the emotions of our mother, in a general way, because our emotions are basically triggered by enzimes and hormones flushed inside our blood stream by our mother's body. When she was very happy, we felt it. When she was scared, sad, stressed, angry, frightened, we felt it all. All those experiences helped molding our personality.
when we where inside our mother's womb, we could hear her voice, and most importantly, we could listen to her heart beating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, during nine months. Why do you think all babies like to be gently shaked in a rhytmic way? And why (that's a personal theory) people like rhytmic music so much? All native tribes had some sort of drums to express their music.
Women's voice tend to be more "high"pitvhed thatn men's voices. Children seem to like that. That's why all of us, men, tend to imitate an women's voice when we are talking to a baby, because that seens to sound better to them.
Aaaanyway... and how about identical twins? In this case I still believe that each one will react diferently to the same (or to be exact, almost the same) stimuli from their mother's body and outter environment, developing unique responses to the experiences they went through, while inside their mother's womb.
Having said that, I add: Behold, mothers of the world, the responsability for your children's personalities begins early in the days of pregnancy!
Any comments?
Last edited by Lampion; 04-14-2002 at 07:26 PM..
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