Whenever Klara arrives at her changing table, she looks up and to the left. She sees something there that makes her very happy. She laughs, makes happy faces, and babbles for as long as we let her, staring at a mysterious interlocutor N and I don’t see. She doesn’t do that anywhere else in the house. It’s just this particular spot between the ceiling and the wall of her room where something very attractive to her but unseen to us is located.
We have arrived at a conclusion that there must be a portal to another dimension in that spot that only Klara has access to.
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Well, maybe Klara is intelligent enough to be growing up left-handed. That’s a treat that geniuses like Einstein and Obama and me — I’m assuming that you and N were raised to be right-handed — can only dream about.
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Poor left-handed kids were practically tortured in the USSR. 😦
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DH and I are right-handed, and 2 out of our 3 kids (eldest and youngest) are left-handed! The youngest is more on the left-ambidextrous side. It’s quite amazing: he’ll do things with his left hand (draw, write, etc.), but when he gets tired, he just switches and takes over with the other one!
It appears my father would have been left-handed, but as Clarissa says, lefties used to be tortured to switch in much of Europe, especially when my father was little (early 50’s).
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I was stunned when I met a group of British kids in 1990 and saw that almost half of them was left-handed and nobody was bothered by that.
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Well in Neuro-linguistic Programming looking up and to the left would mean she’s accessing visual memories (for most people there’s some variation among people about eye-movement and cognitive function but people are very consistent with themselves if that makes sense).
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I just remembered that I always look to the left whenever I’m trying to say something intellectual. Very interesting!
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Off-topic: Your random pop-up ad appearing on my screen is currently advertising an IUD birth-control device — one of the safest and most reliable means of birth control.. IUDs were coming into vogue when I was a young doctor, fell out of style in the intervening decades, and are now making a well-deserved comeback.
Don’t know what prompted that specific ad, but it’s welcome sight.
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IUDs FTW! Seriously, the best birth control method ever, and now even with the slow-release synthetic progesterone version (Mirena). They never went out of fashion in most of Europe.
Here’s a great article describing why IUDs went out of favor in the US (a certain model led to high incidence of infections):
http://www.wired.com/2011/07/ff_iud/
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Or, Klara could be a budding left hander communing with someone or something on the other side of a time portal. :p What would a time portal only visible to infants even look like? How many pre-verbal memories can people usually access anyways?
You could put a beautiful mural or a ceiling decoration there if you haven’t already. I spent what felt like many hours imagining patterns in the wall plaster ceiling as a small child.
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I’d like to agree with the portal idea, definitely. It’s obviously giving Klara an enjoyable view of something.
I agree with Shakti’s idea of giving her something real to look at. My granny stuck pictures out of magazines on the ceiling for me to state at when I was a baby, cheerful pictures of ballet dancers, ducks, puppies and for some random reason a smiling reindeer with elaborate wobbling jellies on dishes suspended from its antlers – You see, I still remember them…
So, maybe choose carefully the pictures for Klara to remember for the rest of her life!
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Today I showed her a photo of herself on my phone and she was so happy and excited. She probably thought this was a little friend who came to play with her. Eventually, though, I got tired of holding the phone and took it away. And the poor baby was so sad! It was as if her new friend had left her. I felt massively guilty.
Great idea about putting pictures on the ceiling. Thank you!
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