The Mind of the Child Part 2

_Instinctive Movements._--Fourteenth week, hands hold objects longer and with contra-position of thumb. Fifteenth and sixteenth weeks, no intentional seizing. One hundred and fourteenth day, ditto (246).

Seventeenth week, efforts to take hold of ball; ball moved to mouth and eyes. One hundred and eighteenth day, frequent attempts at seizing; following day, grasping gives pleasure (247). Fourteenth week, head seldom falls forward. Sixteenth week, head held up permanently (264), this the first distinct manifestation of will (265). Fourteenth week, child sits, his back supported (267). Seventeenth week, biting (261).

_Imitative Movements._--Fifteenth week, beginnings of imitation; trying to purse the lips (283). Seventeenth week, protruding tip of tongue (284).

_Expressive Movements._--Sixteenth week, turnings of head and nodding, not significant; head turned away in refusal (314).

_Deliberate Movements._--Fourteenth week, attentive looking at person moving; one hundred and first day, at pendulum swinging (48). Fifteenth week, imitation, pursing lips (283). Sixteenth and seventeenth weeks, voluntary gazing at image in mirror (343).

INTELLECT.

Intellect partic.i.p.ates in voluntary movements (I, 338).

_Speech._--Fourteenth week, _nto_, _ha_, _lo_, _na_. Fifteenth week, _nan-nana_, _n[=a]-n[=a]_, _nanna_, in refusal (103). Sixteenth week, in screaming, _a-[)u] a-[)u] a_, _[=a]-[)u] [=a]-[)u]_, _[)u]-a [)u]-a_, _[=u]-[=u]-[=a]-o_, _amme-a_; in discomfort, _[=u][)a]-[=u][)a]-[=u][)a]-[=u][)a]_ (104).

_Feeling of Self._--Seventeenth week, child gazes at his own hand (193).

One hundred and thirteenth day, for the first time regards his image with attention (197). One hundred and sixteenth day, laughs at his image (198).

FIFTH MONTH.

SENSES.

SIGHT.--_Direction of Look._--Looking inquiringly (48).

_Seeing Near and Distant Objects._--Reaching too short (55).

HEARING.--Nineteenth week, pleasure in sound of crumpling of paper by himself. Twenty-first week, beating of gong enchains attention (85).

Disturbed by noise (86).

TOUCH.--Auditory ca.n.a.l sensitive (106).

ORGANIC SENSATIONS AND EMOTIONS.--Pleasure in crumpling paper, tearing newspapers and rolling them into b.a.l.l.s, pulling at glove or hair, ringing of a bell (142, 143). Eighteenth week, discomfort shown by depressing angles of mouth (149). Eighteenth week, nights of ten to eleven hours without taking food (155). Eighteenth week, desire shown by stretching out arms (247).

WILL.

_Instinctive Movements._--Eighteenth week, objects seized are held firmly and carried to the mouth (247). Nineteenth week, child takes bit of meat and carries to mouth. One hundred and twenty-third day, lips protruded in connection with seizing (248).

INTELLECT.

_Speech._--Consonant _k_, _go_, _ko_, _[)a]gg[)e]gg[)e]ko_. First five months, screaming sounds _u_, _a_, _o_, _a_, with _u_ and _o_; _m_ almost the only consonant (104).

_Feeling of Self._--Discovery by child that he can cause sensations of sound (192). Looking at his own fingers very attentively (194).

SIXTH MONTH.

SENSES.

SIGHT.--_Movements of Eyelids._--Twenty-fifth-week, winking caused by puff of wind in face (27).

_Interpretation of what is seen._--Child laughs when nodded to by father; observes father's image in mirror, etc. (62).

TASTE.--Medicine taken if sweetened (124). One hundred and fifty-sixth day, child refuses breast, having had sweeter milk. End of twenty-third week, milk of new nurse taken, also cow's milk, meat-broth (125).

ORGANIC SENSATIONS AND EMOTIONS.--Pleasure in grasping increases (142).

Arms moved up and down when child is nodded to (144). Twenty-third week, depression of angles of mouth and cry of distress caused by harsh address (149). Hunger apparent in persistent gaze at bottle, crying, and opening of mouth (154). Sleep of six to eight hours (162). Astonishment at seeing father after separation, and at sight of stranger (173).

WILL.

_Reflex Movements._--Sneezing caused, on one hundred and seventieth day, by blowing on the child (215).

_Instinctive Movements._--Twenty-second week, child raised himself to sitting posture (267). Twenty-third week, ditto; pleased at being placed upright (275).

_Expressive Movements._--Laugh accompanied by raisings and droppings of arms when pleasure is great (299). Arm-movements that seemed like defensive movements (314). "Crowing" a sign of pleasure (II, 104).

INTELLECT.

Use of means to cause flow of milk (12).

_Speech._--Twenty-second week, _ogo_, _ma-o-[)e]_, _h[)a]_, _[=a]_, _ho-ich_. "Crowing" and aspirate _ha_, and _brrr-ha_, signs of pleasure (104). So _aja_, _orrgo_, _[=a]-[=a]-i-[)o]-[=a]_, _eu_ and _oeu_ (French) and _a_ and _o_ (German), also _ija_; _i_ and _u_ rare (105).

_Feeling of Self._--Twenty-third week, discrimination between touch of self and of foreign object (194; I, 109). Twenty-fourth week, child gazes at glove and at his fingers alternately (194). Twenty fourth week, sees father's image in mirror and turns to look at father. Twenty-fifth week, stretches hand toward his own image. Twenty-sixth week, sees image of father and compares it with original (198).

SEVENTH MONTH.

SENSES.

SIGHT.--_Movements of Eyelids._--End of seventh month, opening and shutting of fan causes opening and shutting of eyes (30).

_Direction of Look._--Twenty-ninth week, looking at flying sparrow (48).

Thirtieth week, child does not look after objects let fall (49).

_Seeing Near and Distant Objects._--Accommodation is perfect (55).

_Interpretation of what is seen._--Staring at strange face (62).

HEARING.--Gaze at person singing; joy in military music (86).

FEELING.--Child became pale in bath (115).

TASTE.--New tastes cause play of countenance (124). One hundred and eighty-fifth day, cow's milk boiled, with egg, is liked; leguminous food not (125).

ORGANIC SENSATIONS AND EMOTIONS.--Pleasure in his image in mirror (142).

Child laughs when others laugh to him (145). Twenty-ninth week, crying with hunger; spreading out tongue (153). Satiety shown by thrusting mouth-piece out (157).

WILL.

_Impulsive Movements._--Nose becomes mobile. Babes strike about them vigorously (207).