Learning

I just listened to a TED talk by Annie Murhy Paul - that was pretty interesting....

In her talk she mentions that babies learn before they are born.- they learn about taste, smell and sounds - research shows that babies cry is shaped by their mother's native language ..so as to attract her and foster bonding... interesting...

As I was listening tot his TED talk, I drifted away to thoughts about my own experience with my 2 children - trying to remember if their cry was the same, if they have the same taste and do the same things.. when my second son was born - we were shocked at how much he looked like his big brother - and in fact, to this day - we call them "twinkies" - what has been surprising to me is that they display very similar behaviors - their growth charts are almost identical, except for the fact that my odlest son was always about 1-2 inches taller at different points in time.  We find it very intersting watching them play in the same way - without having taught each other to do so .... when my oldest son was 2, he used to like lining up cars and forming this long lines with all his toy cars... my second loves to do the same - except he prefers trains over cars...

This talk kinda makes sense - and actually explains alot of what I have been experiencing... if learning starts really early on influenced in utero - then it totally makes sense that my boys learnt the same things / responses in utero - hence their similar behaviors and responses...

Food for thought....