I thought I'd give long-time (or short-time!) followers a break today from my long-winded Science Friday posts and do something more simple. When Q-ball turned 1, I found a copy of Gesell Institute of Human Development’s series on child development, by Louise Bates Ames. I've talked about Gesell in some posts before- I've always found his research interesting, hence the read.
One of my favorite parts of the books was the following image. In it, Gesell and his fellow researchers recorded the movements of children of various ages around a nursery over a 7-minute period. Q-ball is only 16-months, but I've just assumed that 12-18months pretty much all looks that same. This image pops into my mind at about 4:45pm almost every day as I haven't gotten any of the tasks done for the day but am totally exhausted.
|Photo Credit: longestshortesttime.com|
Does this remind you of your child?