Saw a little 4 month old baby named Jack the other day at one of the new yogurt shops, all swaddled up as tight as a cocoon. His grandma said, "That's the way he likes it."
As she held him over her shoulder, his wobbly head was tilting back and forth. I was sitting to his side and noticed his shiny black eyes were squintingly looking to the side to try to see where my voice was coming from. He was trying to make sense of his surroundings. He was searching for meaning. He wanted to understand.
As parents and teachers, we must keep this inherent search for meaning as the core of interaction with our children as they grow. We cannot easily say, "He is lazy or she doesn't care," when we see a tiny infant trying with all its might to MAKE MEANING and LEARN.
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