Baby Annika, 3 months old

Today I encountered two babies, one eight months and the other one 3 months old. As all babies both were cute and as many babies they had little hair. They both would smile at silly parents or grandparents but the eight month old had learned to clap and wave. They both were calm babies looking around with awe and curiosity.

These two reminded me how much babies learn in the first two years of life. Babies are completely dependent on other people yet that very dependency makes them blessed and great learners. Their baby brains are not cluttered by many thoughts so they can be full alive in the present moment. They have not yet learned to categorize and tag things with words and concepts. Everything is a mystery to them and every experience is a new learning opportunity.

They say that our greatest education comes in the first couple years of life. Not that our life is predetermined but our basic orientation to life is established.

There is much we can learn from babies: innocence, living in the present, not labeling and categorize everything, being open to the mysteries of life.

Babies are great learners of life and thus teachers of life.

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