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alexdidi: If your epistle, sorry post must be this long, the least you can do is arrange it well...

how am I to be blamed for your laziness??

What’s there to know about babies? They’re cute,
and they scream. They are also really smart. Sure
every parent thinks their baby is a genius, but
truthfully human infants genuinely are pretty
intelligent.
They can distinguish emotion, make logical
deductions, and can grasp abstract concepts. In a
lot of ways they are not so different from adults
except they are a lot smaller.
Babies Can Understand other People’s Thoughts.
Before we get started, we need to establish how
scientists “interview babies as you might have
noticed, infants are a little lacking in the
conversational department, so scientists rely on
other methods to interpret baby behaviour. When
conducting experiments, researchers pay close
attention to how long babies look at an object, if a
baby encounters something surprising or confusing
the child will stare at that object for a very long
time.
Now, it’s long been common knowledge that babies
don’t understand that other people have different
ideas and emotion from their own. However, with
new discoveries in the field of babyology happening
every day, researchers are starting to have a new
appreciation for infants ability to understand the
thought processes of others.
Agnes Kovacs of the Hungarian Academy of
sciences in Budapest ran an experiment on 56 kids,
all seven months old. The children watched
cartoons in which a character who looked like a
smurf observed a ball rolling on a table.
Occasionally, the ball would stop behind a
rectangle. However after the character wandered
off, the mischievous ball would move off screen.
The children knew of this, but the character didn’t.
When papa smurf came back and discovered the
ball was gone (via a dramatic removal of the
rectangle), the babies acted surprised. They stared
at the screen even though they knew the ball had
rolled away. Researchers theorized their display of
disbelief was because they were relating to the
character onscreen. They were reacting to his
reaction. They understood what he felt.
Similar tests done in 2011, 2005 and 2007 also
produced similar results, so perhaps we’ve been
too critical of babies, maybe they really do know
what we are thinking—which means these monsters
know exactly what they’re doing when they start
screaming in the middle of the night.
BABIES CAN SEPARATE SPEECH FROM GIBBERISH
Babies can’t speak for themselves, but they can
definitely differentiate between actual speech and
made up gibberish.
Athena vovuloumanos of New York University
played a series of recordings for a group of nine
month old babies. The recordings included wide
array of noises, all of which could be divided into
four section first, babies heard a female voice
saying words like “trick” and “dinner” second, they
heard a parrot mimicking human speech. Third and
fourth, the kids heard human non-speech (throat
clearing, whistling) and parrot sounds. While they
focused on this ecletic mixtape, the babies were
shown pictures of checkerboards, human faces and
a cup.
By noting how long babies stared at the images,
scientists could tell if the kids comprehended what
they were hearing. For example, when babies heard
words spoken by a human, they stared at the
pictures for a long time. They didn’t have a problem
identifying the sound of a real person. As for the
human sound effects, when the babies heard
coughs and hacks, they didn’t pay any attention to
the images on screen. They could easily tell the
difference between language and gibberish.
However, thing’s got trickier when the parrot
started talking. If babies heard the bird say words
like “how” or “bread” while starring at pictures of a
face or a cup, they knew they were hearing speech,
even if it wasn’t a human. But if the more human
images were replaced with the more abstract
checkerboard, the babies couldn’t tell the difference
between the parrot mimicry and the parrot whistles.
So basically, if you want to play mind games with
your baby buy a bird.
BABIES KNOW ANIMALS NEED ORGANS
When do humans first realize all creatures, great
and small, are packed full of intestines, is it
something we all discover for ourselves, or is it
something we just know?
According to researchers at the University of
Illinois, it’s hardwired into our brains. Just ask a
baby.
Professor Renee Baillargeon and graduate student
Peipei Setoh believes babies understand basic
physical and psychological facts. For example, if an
infant sees something moving around by itself and
responding to its environment, then the baby
assumes the object is alive. Wondering if babies
also understand basic biology, they gave toys to a
group of eight-month olds and then broke the toys
in half if the toy seemed self-propelled and
agentive (making noises), the babies were
perplexed. They would stare at the hollow insides
for a long time, puzzled as how moving, noisy
objects could lack organs.
BABIES ARE MANIPULATIVE
We may think that only adult-sized people display
manipulative behavior; as it turns out, so do our
little bundles of joy. Japanese psychologist Hiroko
Nakayama found that babies will often fake a cry to
get their guardian’s attention. Her team observed
two babies and found that while both subjects
usually cried because they really were upset, there
were also instances of manipulative crying. The
most telling episode came when one of the babies
was 11 months old. The mother reported that her
baby cried at first but then immediately smiled and
laughed after getting the mother’s attention.
Although this seems like proof of babies’
manipulative nature, Nakayama states that this
behavior is actually beneficial. It allows the babies
to better interact with their caregivers, which
ultimately contributes to their emotional and social
growth.
BABIES CAN SENSE IF THEIR PARENTS ARE ANGRY
When you are married with kids, things can get a lot
bit tense. However, the next time you need to have
a heated “discussion with your spouse, you might
want to step outside. It turns out babies-even
sleeping babies-can sense if their parents are
angry, and mad dads and moms might damage their
psychological development.
In 2013, researchers from the University of Oregon
had a group of mothers answer questions about
how often they fought with their significant others,
after the survey, the moms put their babies to sleep
and then the tykes were placed in an MRI. As the
machine whirred and banged, the babies napped
while wearing head phones while the kids snoozed,
scientists played recordings of a male voice
speaking gibberish. However, sometime the voice
was happy, sometime neutral and sometime it was
ticked off. All the while, scientists observed the
baby’s brain activity based on their blood flow.
When the study was finished, scientists determined
babies from “vocal” families responded quite
differently to the angry voice than infants from more
peaceful homes. Infants whose parents fought
frequently had a much stronger reaction to the
enraged recording, especially in areas of the brain
related to stress and emotion regulation. Even
though they were asleep, the babies could still
sense hostility, and their brains responded
negatively.
Psychologists think that children exposed to parents
arguing at an early age might grow up more anxious
and stressed out than other kids. So remember,
parents, the next time you need to exercise your
vocal cords, the baby is listening.
BABIES CAN LEARN SONGS BEFORE THEY’RE
BORN
According to researchers from the University of
Helsinki, music can aid in key areas like speech
development. Even more fascinating, the
researchers discovered babies have a natural ear
for music and can remember songs they heard in
uteri.
In 2013, the Helsinki scientists had 12 mothers play
“Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” for their fetuses five
times a week, while a control group of 12 expectant
mothers skipped the daily music sessions. After
delivery, the moms brought the babies back for
testing and using an EEG, scientists measured, the
infants brain activity while they listened to the
lullaby. Scientists found that babies who listen to
Mozart’s melody in the womb still recognized the
song after birth. Infant, the babies continued to
recognize the song for up to four months.
This shows the human brain is an amazing organ
and also proves you should be careful what you
play for your kids, or they will have that awful voice
stick in their head for a long time.
www.nigerianobservernews.com/08062014/features/features2.html

tyav7: Tiv!!! So sweet and easy.

aboki waam... msugh oo!

baggy4luv: u need soldier knock to reset your default mode

for speaking my mind??!... smh, tell me u dont know what uwaka, aboki, wahala means in hausa or even ina sonki",
"burantashi" , "shege barawo", buro ubanka, shege,
iskanchi etc na all the bad bad words people dey
always sabi for hausa, Lol . i love that language, its so
sweet to speak. i tell u, if u hvnt lived in the
north before, u've never lived a complete fulfilled
naija life. i
had so much fun growing up among them and
assimilating the culture. they're just one of a kind!

ok

I dey come mke I confirm ... #checks calendar#

I can see super eagles flying high this year!!!

At least 15 people have recently returned
certificates issued to them by the West African
Examinations Council (WAEC). They explained this
action by the fact they were cheating during the
examination, and now as Born Again Christians,
they could not live with “the sin.”

According to Saturday Sun, some of the people had
approached WAEC through letters seeking
restitution, after they had confessed how they
dubiously acquired their certificates, when they
wrote the examinations at various periods.
WAEC replied, stating that what they were expected
to do was to return the certificates awarded in line
with the rules and regulations guiding the conduct of
the examinations. However, only few responded,
including a holder of Teachers’ Grade 11 certificate.
It has been revealed that those who complied with
the directive returned their certificates to various
WAEC offices nationwide.
The council took their case to the Nigeria
Examinations Committee (NEC), which has cancelled
the returned 15 certificates at its 55th meeting in
Lagos.
“The listed candidates, in their letters of restitution,
confessed that they were involved in various forms
of examination malpractices in various years as
indicated against their numbers. They have
returned the original certificates issued to them,” a
statement by NEC said.
The returned certificates by the Born Again
Christians were for both the May/June (school
exam) and November/December (private
candidate) West African Senior School Certificate
Examination (WASSCE).
A breakdown of the year the examinations were
taken revealed that the oldest dates back to June
1983 with certificate # SG 288999. The next is
dated June 1990 (RS0680084c), June 1992 (NGSS
0994156), June 1995 (NGSS0265147) and
December 1995 (NGSP 0169397), December 1996
(NGSP 0575264), December 2000 (NGWASSCP
038771), June 2001 (NGWASSCS 2451037).
Others are June 2002, two certificates with
NGWASSCP 4100224 and NGWASSCS 3894794
were returned and cancelled, June 2003
(NGWASSCS 5009313), June 2006 two born again
Christian returned certificates with NGWASSCP
7747466 and NGWASSCS 8423755, December 2008
(NGWASSCP 05790031) and June 2010 NGWASSCP
13327157.
There are several Verses in the Bible to support
restitution, which conform to what the 15 Born Again
Christians did by confessing their sins and sought
restitution from WAEC.
In 1 John 1:9 says: “If we confess our sins, this is
faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness”.
While Numbers 5:6-7 says: “When a man or woman
commits any of the sins that people commit by
breaking faith with the Lord, and that person
realizes his guilt, he shall confess his sin that he
has committed. And he shall make full restitution for
his wrong”.
The names and other details of the 15 confessed
persons may not be disclosed, as WAEC officials
said it would amount to violation of the rights of the
individuals involved and that of commission’s
ethics.



source- http://www.informationng.com/?p=164502

congrats to them anyway, but thiis is not something new to 2baba na. he's on his way creating a new community.

Congrats anyway, but this is not a new thing for 2baba na... he's on his way making a new community.

Black Swan: You forgot to mention low IQ

cool318: @Black Swan
d Level of deprivation, humiliation & all sorts of inhuman treatment dat abounds in d country leaves nothing but taking solace to COMEDY.
Dats why comedians are rich & home videos strives well.
so dear, bear with d country ok!!

as yuzedo rightly prophesied: "haters will hate"

Black Swan: I dey tell you. I don't know how this meaningless topic got so many likes.

you are not up to his level of comedy

nemesiss: Nigerians like rubbish...thats why our country is like dustbin.......ooops ur country i mean

sadist!!! your name has already cought up with you

this one is strong!

tell them that u want to pursue a career in sports (maybe say football) and a football club is about to sign an agreement with u, and also ur current level of education is capable of helping u achieve this. try convincing them on what they stand to gain if u eventually turn out to be a star!!!

what about Dayuuum?

Man is not a machine to fullfil all these qualities, if a
girl really wants all these, then she should order a
robot.

—motor jam u in front of ur girlfriend u come the shame to die.




—the shortest man for una village the take ladder climb maggi cube.

-them throw ur pant inside river all the fishes die

alienware: Why are you guys so disturbed about BBC coverage on Africa ? The truth is we blacks can't uphold civilization.

please try to connect your fingers to ur brain
before u type a comment.

fear not!...we will surely survive.. We will show them
no Mercy.... If they have LIONel messi we have Tiger
Emenike and Bull Dog Enyeama

paulworld: Recharge card please 08120003102

3310-419-666-00.

Thank me later