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Aggravated and humiliated (ridiculously long; sorry)
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<blockquote data-quote="TerryJ2" data-source="post: 378635" data-attributes="member: 3419"><p><em>Don't be fooled by the awareness of emotion - difficult child 3's first 'game' he played with us as a baby and toddler, was "display the emotion". We would say an</em> <em>emotion and model the expression on our faces. it was stylised, it was fun. And it was the only imitative game difficult child 3 could play. You know how you can say to a baby, "Where is baby's eye?" and then teach the baby to touch his eye? "Where is baby's nose?" and he touches his nose. And so on. Well, difficult child 3 could not play that game. He could not learn the parts of the face or body. But he COULD learn to model expressions ins response to them being named. "Show me - happy!" and difficult child 3 would smile. "Show me - sad!" and difficult child 3 would quiver his bottom lip. "Show me - angry!" and the baby face would scowl. We went on to add other expressions - confused (finger on chin, looking quizzical), surprised, scared, excited.</em></p><p></p><p>Wow, you were way ahead of most people.</p><p>We did the eye, ear, nose touching, but I didn't do expressions until my difficult child was in elementary school. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p><p>Oh well, better late than never.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TerryJ2, post: 378635, member: 3419"] [I]Don't be fooled by the awareness of emotion - difficult child 3's first 'game' he played with us as a baby and toddler, was "display the emotion". We would say an[/I] [I]emotion and model the expression on our faces. it was stylised, it was fun. And it was the only imitative game difficult child 3 could play. You know how you can say to a baby, "Where is baby's eye?" and then teach the baby to touch his eye? "Where is baby's nose?" and he touches his nose. And so on. Well, difficult child 3 could not play that game. He could not learn the parts of the face or body. But he COULD learn to model expressions ins response to them being named. "Show me - happy!" and difficult child 3 would smile. "Show me - sad!" and difficult child 3 would quiver his bottom lip. "Show me - angry!" and the baby face would scowl. We went on to add other expressions - confused (finger on chin, looking quizzical), surprised, scared, excited.[/I] Wow, you were way ahead of most people. We did the eye, ear, nose touching, but I didn't do expressions until my difficult child was in elementary school. :( Oh well, better late than never. [/QUOTE]
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