What Could a Baby Really Do in Four Hours?
When my daughter was a baby, a friend looked around my house and sniggered: “this place looks like my sister’s house, what do your kids do all day?”
Don’t worry, karma got him in the end – he’s now the proud papa of two under two.
For those whose friends and families don’t understand what their babies do all day to leave the house (and their parents) in such disarray, Glamour relationships columnist Joanna Goddard (author of Smitten) saves the day with a video at her personal blog, Cup of Jo. Her son Charles proves kids do plenty more than eating, sleeping and pooping.
Maybe it’s the French music (?), but this is eminently more watchable than any “oh, look at my cute baby” video I’ve ever seen. Nine-month-old Charles Edward rolls, crawls, climbs, picks up toys and quickly abandons them. The sped up four-hour stint makes the little boy a little insect-like (and I mean that in the most endearing way Joanna!) – which proves kids really do have the attention span of a gnat at this age!
If you get only two minutes to yourself today, this is worth both of them:
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At the beginning of the video it says that the human interaction was cut out to make the video funnier. you can occasionally see an adult in a frame or two. but it goes by pretty fast.
really cute video though… my daughter is walking now (and climbing, and jumping, and running, and everything else) and this video makes me want to set up my own camera for a few hours to see what she would look like.
That is amazing. The big thing I get from this is that little Charles amuses himself for 4 hours without any adult intervention. Would most kids do that? Is he just used to it? Is it a good thing or a bad thing?