Regards,
Children have an oral fixation? Quick, call Sigmund Freud.
thanks for sharing.
“....The babies were 8-1/2 to 10 months of age and the toddlers were 16-1/2 to 18-1/2 months old.
.....The findings suggest that saliva sharing helps infants learn about social relationships, researchers said. It helps babies identify the people who are most likely to look after their needs. .....”
Kind of makes you wonder about all those scenes of newborn calves, kittens, etc. being licked by their mother and if the action is much significant than just cleaning the newborn.
In other words, do not give food to puppets in the presence of babies if you do not want saliva on your clothes.
Sharing saliva, eh?
In that case, me and Little Dood (my Gkiddo) are as tight as can be...he soaks my shirt every time I burp his chunky little self...
I fail to see where saliva was the trigger for the response. In one test, babies favored the offer of food over a toy, and in the other, the mouth over the forehead. The importance of the oral stage of development is already long established. Not only that; it’s common sense that a baby would favor food, eating, or putting their mouth on something in their ultra-dependant infancy.
The article did not mention saliva other than as a way of trying to break new article-publishing ground without bothering to have the infants smell, taste or even feel any saliva, even their mother’s saliva versus a more distant relative’s or a stranger’s.
Sheesh.