I have discovered today,quite by accident, that there are two types of babies: hunters and gatherers.
Hunters are the babies you see out at restaurants screaming at the top of their lungs, throwing things everywhere, and demanding full attention be placed on them. When in groups of other children, they hunt out the toys that are already being played with. They stalk them like prey and swoop in and take what is "rightly theirs". They make no apologies for who they are. They are loud and proud! It is their primal instinct to dominate.
Gatherers are quite different. They quietly observe the chaos around them and try to make sense of it. They get a little unnerved at the rambunctious hunters around them. They sit contently playing with the toys they have gathered around them until. . .suddenly. . . out of nowhere. . ."hey! where did my toy just go?!?". Confused and a little annoyed they begin to whimper,then cry until. . ."wait, what is that shiny thing over there. . ."
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