Baby watching fills a lot of cracks in the day. Maybe it should be called “Toddler Watching”. Her attention span reminds me of a lot of adults I know.
Baby’s are easy to distract. That is one of the great points when it comes to dealing with a tired toddler throwing a grump. We get her to look for her kitty. We ask her where her baby is. She totes a doll around with her all the time. She rocks it, wraps it, pats it and does everything to it that has been done to her in her 18 months. Recently we got her going to get baby and suddenly, “Squirrel”, she saw something shiny and forgot all about baby. You could see the transformation of focus.
We see this in our adult world. Remember the movie “Wag the Dog”? The idea was to distract the public from a presidential scandal by faking a disaster or military attack. If you notice, every time the Democrats are faced with any kind of scandal that the news can’t ignore there is a new announcement that tells us Donald Trump is meeting his downfall. And the general public looks. They forget about baby and focus on shiny.
I have hopes that the toddler will develop a longer attention span. I am not sure about the general public.
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No, you might as well give up on the public.
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