188. What’s Really Going between Mom and Baby in the First Three Years

The Suzanne Venker Show

Suzanne Venker

Society & Culture

4.9 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Babies need constant nurturing in the early years. They are completely helpless and utterly dependent on their mothers—and not just to feed them and change their diapers. So many people think this is all that goes on during this stage, and they could not be more wrong.

Suzanne takes listeners on a journey to see what's really going on behind the scenes when Mom is home with her baby.

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0:00.0	From the magnificent Midwest, it's the Suzanne Venker Show, where men and women are equal in value, but wildly different by nature.
0:21.4	Join us here every week as we challenge the culture's hugely flawed narratives about men,
0:27.0	women, sex, and love.
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0:34.6	Hello, everyone. Welcome back.
0:39.0	So I'm not sure if I've mentioned that I've become kind of obsessed with pickleball.
0:44.9	I don't think I have to the point where I'm mapping out my work schedule according to my pickleball schedule.
0:50.5	That's how obsessed I am.
0:52.0	And the reason I'm mentioning this is because I am learning the
0:54.7	significance of nonverbal communication in sports, which is kind of funny, because I've talked a
1:01.9	fair amount about nonverbal communication in relationships, but experiencing it with sports is kind of
1:07.4	new to me because I never really played competitive sports when I was young. So it's super fascinating to notice how much nonverbal communication goes on in sports.
1:15.6	I mean, you have facial gestures, eye contact, undertones in the way we speak and the sound of
1:21.7	our voices. There's fidgeting, posture. There's just a whole way of communicating without our ever opening our mouths.
1:30.6	And this got me to thinking about what it's like to be a baby. Because of course babies
1:36.9	can't talk. But that doesn't mean they can't communicate. And that doesn't mean that we can't
1:42.4	communicate with them. And unfortunately, in mean that we can't communicate with them.
1:51.2	And unfortunately, in the world we live in today, there's just very little awareness or attention paid to what's actually going on in the life of a baby or in the early years of life. Really,
1:57.9	not just the first three, but the first five, honestly.
2:02.9	It's a very tender time.
2:07.5	And the only folks who are really privy to this information, in my opinion, are those who either study child development and really get what's going on there or who are or
2:13.7	were home with their babies on a full-time basis to observe how this development unfolds.
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