The behavior of chimp mommies and babies and human mothers and infants are delightfully identical in many ways -- the gestures and the facial expressions -- but we are dramatically different in other ways,

We vocalize continually in a way that helps babies begin to learn language by the end of the first year. I wanted to find out why we are the only animals that talk, and this need to pacify our babies as humans evolved may be the reason.

I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.

Mothers of preschoolers have certain fears in common. They fear when their babies start walking, they will fall down. They fear their children will feel left out. They fear they won't be the best mothers.

Mothers of preschoolers have certain fears in common, ... They fear when their babies start walking, they will fall down. They fear their children will feel left out. They fear they won't be the best mothers.

We found that mothers showed no differential behavior toward their sons versus their daughters. They weren't being nasty to their sons or encouraging to their daughters.