The Mind of the Child Part 6

_Impulsive Movements._--Sleeping child raised hand to eye (202).

Accompanying movement of fingers in drinking (210).

_Reflex Movements._--Respirations, in sleep, twenty-two to twenty-five a minute (217).

_Instinctive Movements._--Sixty-sixth week, four hundred and fifty-seventh day, child runs alone (278). Next day, stops and stamps.

Four hundred and sixty-first day, can walk backward, if led, and can turn round alone. At the end of the week can look at objects while walking. Sixty-seventh week, a fall occurs rarely. Sixty-eighth week, walking becoming mechanical (279).

_Imitative Movements._--A ring put on his head in imitation (289).

Waiting att.i.tude (318).

_Expressive Movements._--Lips protruded almost like a snout (302).

Shaking head meant "No" and "I do not know" (316). Child shrugs shoulders when unable to answer (317). Waiting att.i.tude becomes a sign (318).

_Deliberate Movements._--Opening and shutting cupboards, bringing objects, etc. Holding ear-ring to ear (327).

INTELLECT.

Child holds an ear-ring to his ear with understanding (I, 327). A begging movement at seeing box from which cake had come (11). Small understanding shown in grasping at ring (13).

_Speech._--Progress in repeating words spoken for him and in understanding words heard. Desire expressed by _ha!_ _ha-o!_ _ha-[)e]!_ _h[)e]-[)e]!_ More seldom _hi_, _go-go_, _go_, _f-pa_, _[(au]_; more frequently, _ta_, _dokkn_, _ta-ha_, _a-bwa-bwa_, _b[)u][=a]-b[)u][=a]_; once _dagon_. Child "reads" the newspaper (126). Pain expressed by screaming; joy by crowing with vowel _i_; _a_ repeated on command; _mo_ and _ma_; imitation tried (127). Touches eye, ear, etc., when these are named--not with certainty (128). Understands "bring," "give," etc.

(129).

_Feeling of Self._--Putting thumbs against the head and pus.h.i.+ng, experimenting (191). Sixty-sixth week, child strikes at his image in mirror. Sixty-seventh week, makes grimaces before mirror; turns round to see his father, whose image appeared in mirror (199). Sixty-ninth week, signs of vanity (200).

SEVENTEENTH MONTH.

SENSES.

SIGHT.--_Interpretation of what is seen._--Child grasps at tobacco-smoke (64).

HEARING.--Holding watch to ear (89).

TASTE.--Surprise at new tastes (119).

SMELL.--Inability to separate smell and taste (135).

ORGANIC SENSATIONS AND EMOTIONS.--Prolonged sleep; ten hours at a time (162).

WILL.

_Reflex Movements._--Right hand moved when right nostril is touched (221).

_Instinctive Movements._--Clasping of finger in sleep (243). Seventieth week, child raises himself from floor alone; seventy-first week, steps over threshold (279).

_Expressive Movements._--Shaking head means "I do not wish" (316).

Throwing himself on floor and screaming with rage (323).

INTELLECT.

Child brings traveling-bag to stand upon in order to reach (12). Play of "hide and seek" (17).

_Speech._--Screaming, whimpering, etc. (101). Increase of discrimination: _bibi_, _na-na-na_, _t-to_, _hot-to_; voluntary imitation (129). a.s.sociations of words heard with objects and movements (130).

_Feeling of Self._--Making grimaces before mirror (200).

EIGHTEENTH MONTH.

SENSES.

SIGHT.--_Direction of Look._--Seventy-eighth week, throwing away of playthings is rare (50).

_Interpretation of what is seen._--Anxiety on seeing man dressed in black (64).

SMELL.--Objects no longer carried to mouth (135).

ORGANIC SENSATIONS AND EMOTIONS.--Laughing at thunder (170).

WILL.

_Impulsive Movements._--Holding little finger apart from others (209).

_Instinctive Movements._--Walks over threshold by holding on (275).

Seventy-seventh week, runs around table; seventy-eighth, walks over threshold without holding on (280).

_Imitative Movements._--Blowing horn (290).

_Expressive Movements._--Trying to hit with foot, striking, etc. (315).

Waiting att.i.tude (318).

_Deliberate Movements._--Full spoon carried to mouth with skill (329).

INTELLECT.

Memory of towel (8). Watering flowers with empty pot (16). Plays (17).

Giving leaves to stag, etc. (18). Stick of wood put in stove (20).

_Speech._--Understanding of words increases (130). Repeating of syllables is rare; _atta_ becomes _tto_, _t-tu_, _ftu_; feeling recognized by tone of voice (131).

_Feeling of Self._--Recognition of himself as cause of changes (192).

NINETEENTH MONTH.

SENSES.

HEARING.--Hearing watch on his head (89).