The Mind of the Child, Part II | Page 7

of paper handled (252). Biting father's hand (261). Smacking lips (262). Sitting becomes habit for life (268). Standing without support; stamping; but standing only for a moment (269). End of forty-seventh week, feet well placed, but lifted too high and put down too hard (276).
Expressive Movements.--Grasping at his image with laugh; jubilant noise at being allowed to walk (299).
Deliberate Movements.--Striking spoon against object and exchanging objects (326, 327). Child takes biscuit, carries it to mouth, bites off a bit, chews and swallows it; but can not drink from glass (329).
INTELLECT.
Syllables correctly repeated; intentional sound-imitation on the three hundred and twenty-ninth day. Forty-fifth week, response made for diversion: whispering begins (109). Three kinds of r-sounds: new syllables, ta-h[(ee], dann-tee, [(aa]-n[(ee], ng?, tai, b?, dall, at-tall, kamm, akkee, pra?-jer, tra, [=a]-h[(ee]. Some earlier sounds frequent; consonants b, p, t, d, m, n, r; l, g, k: vowel a most used, u and o rare, i very rare (110). Accentuation not frequent (111). Association of idea with utterance in one case (111, 122). Forty-fifth week, to word "papa," response rrra (113).
Feeling of Self.--Forty-fifth to fifty-fifth week, discovery of his power to cause changes (192).
TWELFTH MONTH.
SENSES.
SIGHT.--Seeing Near and Distant Objects.--Fifty-first week, pleasure in seeing men sawing wood at distance of more than one hundred feet (55).
HEARING.--Screaming quieted by "Sh!" (87). Three hundred and sixty-third day, hears noise in next room and looks in direction of sound (88).
TASTE.--Fastidious about food (126).
ORGANIC SENSATIONS AND EMOTIONS.--Grunting as indication of pleasure (144). Fifty-second week, astonishment at new sound (173).
WILL.
Impulsive Movements.--Accompanying movement of hand in drinking (209).
Instinctive Movements.--Child seized father's hand, carried it to mouth and bit it (261). Forty-eighth week, standing without support a moment; stamping; pushing a chair (276). Forty-ninth week, child can not raise himself without help or stand more than an instant. Fiftieth week, can not place himself on his feet, or walk without help (277).
Imitative Movements.--Trying to strike with spoon on tumbler; puffing repeated in sleep (287).
Expressive Movements.--End of year, imitative laughing; crowing (299). Laughing in sleep (300). Opening of mouth in kissing (305). Arms stretched out in desire (322).
Deliberate Movements.--Biscuit put into mouth with few failures; drinking from glass, breathing into the water (329).
INTELLECT.
Ideas gained before language (78). Logical activity applied to perceptions of sound (I, 88). Abstraction, whiteness of milk (18).
Speech.--Imitation more successful, but seldom correct. Articulate sounds made spontaneously: haja, jajajajaja, aja, njaja, na?n-hopp, ha-a, pa-a, d[=e]w?r, han-na, m?mma, allda, allda?, apa-u-a, g?g?, ka, ladn; atta is varied, no more dada; w for the first time. Ability to discriminate between words (112). Fifty-second week, child of himself obeys command, "Give the hand!" Quieting effect of sounds "sh, ss, st, pst" (113).
Feeling of Self.--Striking hard substances against teeth; gnashing teeth (189). Tearing of paper continued (192).
THIRTEENTH MONTH.
SENSES.
HEARING.--Child strikes on keys of piano; pleased with singing of canary-bird (89).
ORGANIC SENSATIONS AND EMOTIONS.--Laughing almost invariably follows the laugh of others (145). Sleep, fourteen hours daily (162).
WILL.
Instinctive Movements.--Standing some moments without support (270). Fifty-third week, creeping. Fifty-fourth week, walking, with support; movements in creeping asymmetrical (277).
Expressive Movements.--No idea of kissing (305). Shaking head in denial (315). Begging sound along with extending of hands in desire (323).
INTELLECT.
Trying door after shutting it (15, 16). Hears the vowel-sounds in word (68).
Speech.--Desire expressed by ?-na, ?-nananana (112). Awkwardness continues; attention more lively. Tries to repeat words said for him. Three hundred and sixty-ninth day, papa repeated correctly (113, 114). Syllables most frequent, nja, njan, dada, atta, mama, papa?, atta?, na-na-na, hatta, meen[)e]-meen[)e]-meen[)e], m?mm, m?mma, ao-u: na-na denotes desire, mama, mother. Fifty-fourth week, joy expressed by crowing, some very high tones; first distinct s, three hundred and sixty-eighth day (114). Understanding of words spoken (115). Confusion of associations; first conscious act of obedience (116).
Feeling of Self.--Rapping head with hand (191). Finding himself a cause; shaking keys, etc. (192). Fifty-fifth week, strikes himself and observes his hands; compares fingers of others with his own (195).
FOURTEENTH MONTH.
SENSES.
SIGHT.--Seeing Near and Distant Objects.--Fifty-eighth week, grasping at lamp above him (55).
ORGANIC SENSATIONS AND EMOTIONS.--Fear of falling (169). Fifty-eighth week, astonishment at lantern (173).
WILL.
Instinctive Movements.--Child could be allowed to bite paper to pieces; he took the pieces out of his mouth (253). Fifty-seventh week, he hitches along on hands and knees; can not walk without support. Sixtieth week, raises himself by chair (277).
Imitative Movements.--For imitating swinging of arms an interval of time was required (287). Coughing imitated (288). Nodding not imitated (315).
Expressive Movements.--Confounding of movements (322). Affection shown by laying hand on face and shoulders of others (324).
Deliberate Movements.--Child takes off and puts on the cover of a can seventy-nine times (328).
INTELLECT.
Wrong understanding of what is heard (89).
Speech.--No doubt that atta means "going"; brrr, practiced and perfected; dakkn, daggn, taggn, attagn, attatn; no special success in repeating vowels and syllables (117). Child tries and laughs at his failures, if others laugh; parrot-like repetition of some syllables