Mon Dec 6, 2021 – 6:21 pm ESTMon Dec 6, 2021 – 6:23 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) still has not restored to its website a document affirming the importance of babies seeing human faces and communicating with parents via their own facial expressions, despite claiming more than three months ago the removal was merely a temporary byproduct of web maintenance.
“By the time babies are 6 to 8 weeks old, they may smile back when they see a face,” reads the Face Time and Emotional Health brochure (archived here). “These ‘social smiles’ are both fun and important. Make time for ‘face time’! That means taking time to smile at your baby’s face and to return a smile whenever your baby smiles.”
“If your child learns early in life that he can easily get your attention by smiling or cooing or being happy, he will keep it up,” it adds. “But if you do not make time for face time, he may give up on smiling and try more fussing, crying and screaming to get the attention he needs.”
In August, observers began noticing that the brochure no longer appeared on
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