Innate vs instinct

[Jennyanydots]

I would argue here that stamping licking is an internal instinct. (I’m joking, of course)

My three year old just wrote a post card to his cousin. She loves Care Bears and for some reason we had a post card around and my son wanted to send it along to her.

Anyway. . . .

He went to daddy for a stamp and since they are all stickers now, there isn’t a need to lick. However, after affixing the stamp to the postcard, my son licked it. He just felt the need to do so. I don’t even think he has been around long enough to know what lickable stamps are. Unless you buy the 1-cent stamps from the machine, they are all stickables.

Children are an amazing miracle. Mine are a joy every second of every day.

Anything your kids do that makes you step back and smile for a while, wondering where they got that from?

 

[turboEDvo]

Jennyanydots:

Anything your kids do that makes you step back and smile for a while, wondering where they got that from?

Well, my parents like to tell me the story of a funny thing I used to say: instead of “What the heck?” I used to say “What is the heck of this?”. They thought that was very funny.

Another time, apparently, when I was 1.5 years old, my parents were playing with me in my room, and they started chatting and didn’t notice me crawl out. Well, I managed to get my mom’s car keys, open the front door, and unlock and enter her car. I supposedly sat there for what they estimated was about 5 minutes before they looked outside and noticed theh dome light was on. They then noticed I was missing and promptly retrieved me. What can I say? I got started with cars early (and since I was like 4, I have ALWAYS wanted to drive)

Eamon

 

[Jennyanydots]

See, I would say that the kids and keys combo is totally instinct. Kids know the difference between keys that actually do something and keys that havent been cut for anything yet.

 

[turboEDvo]

Jennyanydots:

See, I would say that the kids and keys combo is totally instinct. Kids know the difference between keys that actually do something and keys that havent been cut for anything yet.

I think I have a weird thing for keys, though. For example, we have owned 3 Volvos with the same shaped keys. If you lay all of them out in front of my, I can tell you from the cut pattern which key goes to which car (they look otherwise identical). Basically, if you hand me many seemingly identical keys, I can tell you exactly what they go to (and can do this with relatives’ keys as well). I have always been able to do this. I can even tell my teachers which key out of the mass of keys they have fits their room only by the cut pattern.

Eamon