friendly kid, he is not afraid to be with strangers proven by the fact that he could interact very comfortably with me, my classmates, and other babies. However, when there were some unfamiliar things happening (like when the new baby twins came in or when someone made a scary face to him), he always looked for his mother and ran toward her as described in proximity-seeking behaviors (Berger 226). He is a representative of secure attachment by showing that he had no problem with being away from his mother and exploring on his own (Berger 228). Besides, he also reacted to the Strange Situation the way we expected from a secured child as stated in Berger on page 228 and on table 7.1, page 230.After play for a while, he came up to me with a book and showed me the content, then he gurgled something, clearly wanting me to read it to him. His intention was well understood. Without sufficient vocabulary, using only hollow phrases, he still has no communication problem. After all, communication is about understanding not vocabulary anyway (Berger 198). He showed clear signs of understanding his mother’s commands such as “up, down, kiss, bye, etc.” by following them. His spoken language has been developed normally according to table 6.2 in Berger, on page 194. One interesting thing was that when he was sitting in the chair and reading the book, he did not make any recognizable word sounds but “blah…blah…blah… “ However, the way I see it is that he was not babbling, but instead he was pretending to read but he could not find any word that matched with the content of the book so he ended up with that one-size-fits-all babble.At the age of 15.5 months, Ali is falling into Piaget’s stage five, the stage for experimentation and exploration (Berger 192-193). “Piaget referred to the stage-five toddler as the little scientist who “experiments in order to see.” (Berger 193). Ali is...
