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...good the average day care is remains something of a guess. Bernice Weissbourd, who founded the Chicago-based Family Focus groups to provide support and advice for new parents, argues that any day care service that has more than three infants per adult (and that includes most) is inadequate. "Too often," she warns, "the parents' main questions are simply how close to home is it and how much does it cost." But of day care as such, Cornell Psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner says categorically, "There is no hard evidence that day care has a negative effect...
...basic answer, which is repeatedly being demonstrated in myriad new ways: babies know a lot more than most people used to think. They see more, hear more, understand more, and they are genetically prewired to make friends with any adult who cares for them. The implications of this research challenge some of the standard beliefs on how children should be reared, how they should be educated, and what they are capable of becoming as they grow up. Yale Psychology Professor William Kessen, who has been studying infants for more than 30 years, says in admiration of the newborn baby...
Maratos' thesis was never published, so the credit for the discovery went mainly to two young psychologists who now teach at the University of Washington, Andrew Meltzoff and M. Keith Moore. Their study, published in 1977, showed that babies only twelve days old could imitate an adult sticking out a tongue. Meltzoff and Moore demonstrated that if a pacifier in the baby's mouth prevented the infant from imitating the adult, it would remember what it wanted to do until the pacifier was removed; then the baby would promptly stick out its tongue...
...gender of other infants they are looking at, and they prefer to look at those of their own sex. Bower made films of an infant boy and girl making various movements, and then deleted from the film a11 apparent signs of gender and even swapped their clothes. Some adult viewers had difficulty telling them apart...
Hall, 52, has explicitly rejected Chéreau's revolutionary premise ("The Ring does not say that to me at all"), but offers in its place only the unremarkable notion that Wagner "elevated a fairy tale into adult myth." In staging the production, Hall said, he would try to follow closely the composer's own detailed stage directions to return to a romantic Ring. This faithfulness to the original-what the Germans call Werktreue-is admirable and, in this day of extravagant operatic reinterpretations, almost avantgarde...