I’ve mentioned my manager and his baby many times but it is so funny how the baby is just like... his friend. Like I had great parents, I’ve met a lot of great parents, and I’ve never met somebody who talks about their baby like he does.
He’s like “aw I actually can’t go out that night, I’m gonna hang out with [baby’s name].” He talks about her like they have conversations even though she can’t talk yet. It’s never “I took her” to a place, it’s always “we went.” He’s confident that she understands most if not all that happens around her and acts accordingly and it’s so sweet.
When he brought her to see us at work the first time, he was making a pot of coffee for her mom, and even though she was still tiny I remember he talked her through how to make coffee just as if he was talking to an adult.
She’s one now, but I’ve worked with him since she was born and can guarantee he’s always been like this.
He’s like “yes I am friends with my baby, unlike other people my baby is very cool.”
That is gonna be so fucking good for her development.
Feeling appreciated, getting undivided attention, being taught that she's basically competent and just needs experience to do things, the language modelling, the behaviour modelling, the respect for her as a person.
My grandfather did this. He would always talk to me like he cared about what I was saying. He listened to me like whatever I was talking about was the most important thing in the world.
