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| Unit 2 Initial Education启蒙教育 Text 1 A Baby’s Perception A few years ago a young mother watched her husband diaper(尿布) their first-born son.“You don’t have to be so grim (严厉的) about it,”she protested.“You can talk to him and smile a little,” the father, who happened to be a psychologist, answered firmly, “he has nothing to say to me, and I have nothing to say to him.” Psychologists now know how wrong that father was. From the moment of birth, a baby has a great deal to say to his parents, and they to him. But a decade or so ago, these experts were describing the newborn as a primitive creatu